Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts

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David McCraw will draw on his experiences as a lawyer and as the Deputy General Counsel for The New York Times to explore the ethical challenges awaiting journalists and the American public that arise at the intersection of law, ethics, and technology.

New_Public Festival

Join an extraordinary, carefully crafted group of designers, urbanists, technologists, builders, artists, and civic futurists — with Krista Tippett, Cory Doctorow, Danielle Allen, Tristan Harris, Esra’a Al Shafei, Gabriella Gomez-Mont, […]

Metaphor and Post-Truth Rhetorics

The UT Austin Department of Communication Studies and the Center for Media Engagement Present: Metaphor’s Keepers: The Mobile Armies of Post-Truth Rhetorics Dr. Jenny Rice Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and […]

Overdoing Democracy: The Problem of Political Polarization

In this talk, Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt University) draws from current findings regarding political polarization to argue that, as important a social good as democracy is, it is nonetheless possible for citizens to overdo it.

COGSEC Conference

The Center for Media Engagement is proud to host COGSEC, an online conference that will bring together a community of practitioners on the front lines of dealing with and actively combatting the efforts of malign actors online.