CBC Radio's Ideas: 'The Origins of the Modern Public'

The Making Publics (MaPs) research project is being featured in a 14-part series by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)'s program, 'Ideas'. Art History professor Angela Vanhaelen and Communication Studies professor Darin Barney among other McGill faculty will be participants.

From cbc.ca: "Publicity was once the exclusive property of men of rank. They alone, by virtue of their stations, could make things public. During the 18th century it became meaningful to talk about "public opinion" as something formed outside the state. Today anyone with a Twitter account can make a public. In this series IDEAS producer David Cayley examines how publics were formed in Europe, between 1500 and 1700, and how these early publics grew into the concept of "the public" that we hold today."

The series will begin on CBC Radio One at 9 p.m. on April 26th, and will run all that week, continuing on Wednesday nights beginning the following week (May 5th) and ending June 30th. The programs will be available via CBC's podcast website once aired.