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SUMMARY:A Growing Threat: The Impact of Disinformation Targeted At Communities of Color
DESCRIPTION:Communities of color are being targeted by electoral propaganda. How should policymakers respond? Dr. Samuel Woolley\, program director of the Center for Media Engagement propaganda lab\, will provide expert testimony on this topic in front of the U.S. House of Representatives. \nWatch the hearing live on Thursday\, April 28 at 9:00 a.m. CST: https://bit.ly/DisinfoHearing
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/a-growing-threat-the-impact-of-disinformation-targeted-at-communities-of-color/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220414T153000
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SUMMARY:How the Internet Improves Humanity
DESCRIPTION:Given the time and energy we spend worrying about the Internet’s flaws\, it’s easy to forget how the Internet makes our lives better in many ways. This talk will highlight one underappreciated aspect: how the Internet has the capacity to improve the human species by increasing pro-social interactions and reducing anti-social ones. The talk will also show how this scenario probably won’t be realized because of misguided regulatory efforts to “fix” the Internet. \nEric Goldman is Associate Dean for Research\, Professor of Law\, Co-Director of the High Tech Law Institute\, and Supervisor of the Privacy Law Certificate\, at Santa Clara University School of Law. His research and teaching focuses on Internet law\, and he blogs on that topic at the Technology & Marketing Law Blog. \nRegister on Eventbrite for this free\, virtual event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-the-internet-improves-humanity-registration-289998622687
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/https-www-eventbrite-com-e-how-the-internet-improves-humanity-registration-289998622687/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220416
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SUMMARY:Digital Data Conference (D2C)
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Media Engagement and The Media and Democracy Data Cooperative invite you the virtual Digital Data Conference (D2C) on April 14 and 15\, 2022. \nD2C brings together researchers collecting and analyzing digital media data to discuss the practice and ethics of digital data research. Day 1 of the conference features a Keynote on the State of Digital Data Research and a panel on emerging digital data tools. Day 2 will focus on data ethics. \nThis conference is funded by the Social Science Research Council. \nRegister on Eventbrite for this free\, virtual conference. \n  \nDay 1 \n11:00 – 11:50 AM CT \nKeynote: The State of Digital Data Research \nKeynote Speaker: Dr. David Lazer\, Northeastern University \nInterviewer: Dr. Josephine Lukito\, Center for Media Engagement\, The University of Texas at Austin \n  \n12:00 – 1:00 PM CT \nPanel: Emerging Digital Data Tools \nModerator: Dr. Yunkang Yang\, Institute for Data\, Democracy & Politics (IDDP)\, The George Washington University \nDr. Deen Freelon\, Center for Information\, Technology\, and Public Life (CITAP)\, UNC Chapel Hill \nDr. Mike Kearney\, Aware \nDr. Yini Zhang\, University at Buffalo \nRyan Gallagher\, Northeastern University \n  \nDay 2 \n11:00 – 11:50 AM CT \nKeynote: Data Ethics \nKeynote Speaker: Dr. Joan Donovan\, Harvard Kennedy School \nInterviewer: Dr. Jordan Foley\, Washington State University \n  \n12:00 – 1:15 PM CT \nPanel: Research Centers’ Approaches to Data Ethics \nModerator: Meredith Pruden\, Center for Information\, Technology\, and Public Life (CITAP)\, UNC Chapel Hill \nDr. Kate Starbird\, Center for an Informed Public (CIP)\, University of Washington \nDr. Dhavan Shah\, Center for Communication and Civic Renewal (CCCR)\, University of Wisconsin-Madison \nDr. Joshua Tucker\,  Center for Social Media and Politics (CSMaP)\, New York University \nDr. Renee DiResta\, Internet Observatory (IO)\, Stanford University \nDr. Rebekah Tromble\, Institute for Date\, Democracy & Politics (IDDP)\, The George Washington University
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/digital-data-conference/
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SUMMARY:Who Gets to Speak in News Coverage? Solidarity Reporting on Trans Issues
DESCRIPTION:News coverage of trans issues has grown in recent months\, with reporting on legislation\, protests\, and profiles of trans individuals. Yet much of this coverage still silences\, re-marginalizes\, and alienates trans people. How can journalism do better? \nJoin us for an interactive\, virtual workshop to unpack what solidarity means when covering trans issues\, how cis journalists can share power in solidarity with trans journalists in the service of better representation\, and tips for how journalists can report accurately on a topic that is often inundated with official misinformation. \nRegister on Eventbrite for this free\, virtual event. \n  \nTuck Woodstock is a journalist and educator based in Portland\, Oregon. He is the host of the podcast Gender Reveal\, a co-founder of Sylveon Consulting\, and a founding member of the Trans Journalists Association. \nAnita Varma leads the Solidarity Journalism Initiative at the Center for Media Engagement (UT Austin)\, where she is also an assistant professor of media ethics in the School of Journalism & Media. She is on the advisory board of The Objective\, and she is a board member of SPJ NorCal.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/solidarity-reporting-on-trans-issues/
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SUMMARY:"Is that really journalism?" Journalism & Advocacy
DESCRIPTION:What’s the connection between journalism & advocacy? Why do some news organizations consider advocacy problematic? Who decides what advocacy means?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDistancing journalism from advocacy is common in some journalism settings\, but odd\, given the long history of journalism that advocates for social change\, performs public service\, and enacts solidarity with marginalized people. \nJoin us for a panel discussion featuring folks who work in journalism & have experience with responding to the question “is that really journalism?” including: \n\n\n\n\n\nMadeleine Bair\, founder of El Tímpano\nGabe Schneider\, co-founder of The Objective\nAubrey Nagle\, Reframe Editor at Resolve Philly\nAnita Varma\, Solidarity Journalism Initiative lead at the Center for Media Engagement\n\n\n\n\n\nFree\, virtual\, and open to journalists\, journalism students\, journalism educators\, and advocates of all kinds. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/is-that-really-journalism-journalism-advocacy-tickets-187945308477 \n\n\nHosted by the Solidarity Journalism Initiative at the Center for Media Engagement
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/is-that-really-journalism-journalism-advocacy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210825T140000
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SUMMARY:Solidarity Reporting on Afghanistan: Resisting Dehumanizing Portrayals
DESCRIPTION:How can journalists better represent the voices and experiences of Afghan people at this time? Who should we think of as experts on Afghanistan? What does solidarity reporting on Afghanistan look like? \nJoin Azeta Hatef (Emerson College\, journalism studies) and Anita Varma (UT Austin\, Solidarity Journalism Initiative) for a discussion of key issues in reporting on Afghanistan\, opportunities to foster greater solidarity\, and specific examples of recent coverage that provide accurate\, humane representations while insisting we not look away. \nVisit Eventbrite to register for this free\, virtual event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/solidarity-reporting-on-afghanistan-resisting-dehumanizing-portrayals-tickets-167773943381 \nAzeta Hatef is an Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies at Emerson College. Her work explores questions related to identity\, belongingness\, and representation\, with a specific focus on media and Afghanistan. Azeta has conducted research in Afghanistan examining the complex beauty industry. She has also written about the development of independent media in Afghanistan following the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 and the representation of Afghan women in U.S. media. \nAnita Varma leads the Solidarity Journalism Initiative at the Center for Media Engagement (UT Austin). The Solidarity Journalism Initiative began at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics (Santa Clara University). Anita is a publicly engaged researcher and educator\, and helps journalists implement solidarity techniques in their reporting on marginalized communities. She also serves on the board of SPJ (Northern California Chapter) and the advisory board of The Objective.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/solidarity-reporting-on-afghanistan-resisting-dehumanizing-portrayals/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210406T140000
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SUMMARY:Hashtag Heroes vs. Disinfo Dystopia: The Left\, the Right\, and the Truth about Social Media Activism
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Communication Studies in the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin welcomes Dr. Deen Freelon of UNC-Chapel Hill for the latest installment of the CMS Spring Colloquium Series on Truth. This event is co-Sponsored by the Center for Media Engagement. \nApril 6\, 2:00-3:15 PM CST \nhttps://utexas.zoom.us/j/99512740369 \nMeeting ID: 995 1274 0369 \nRecent scholarship has generated two distinct impressions of US-based social media activism\, one for the ideological left and one for the right. For the left\, the dominant mode of engagement is hashtag activism\, which entails coordinated online and offline protest campaigns linked by hashtagged slogans. The right channels its priorities through a densely networked\, hyperpartisan media ecosystem that makes frequent use of disinformation and other false claims. The respective empirical records underlying these portrayals are very solid\, yet questions remain about how exclusively these strategic repertoires cling to ideological fault lines. In particular\, there appears to be little extant research on either conservative hashtag-based activism or on left-leaning disinformation. A comprehensive understanding of social media activism demands further explorations of these possibilities\, especially in the critical areas of mis- and disinformation. I pay special attention to how the events of Jan. 6 are likely to change scholarly perceptions of potential asymmetries in activist tactics. \nDr. Deen Freelon is an associate professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media.  His research covers two major areas of scholarship: 1) political expression through digital media and 2) data science and computational methods for analyzing large digital datasets.  He has authored or co-authored more than 30 journal articles\, book chapters and public reports\, in addition to co-editing one scholarly book.  He has served as principal investigator on grants from the Knight Foundation\, the Spencer Foundation and the U.S. Institute of Peace.  He has written research-grade software to calculate intercoder reliability for content analysis (ReCal)\, analyze large-scale network data from social media (TSM)\, and collect data from Facebook (fb_scrape_public).  He formerly taught at American University in Washington\, D.C.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/hashtag-heroes-vs-disinfo-dystopia/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210316
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SUMMARY:SXSW Panel: “How Newsrooms Can Help Bridge Divides”
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Media Engagement at SXSW for an in-depth discussion on “How Newsrooms Can Help Bridge Divides.” We’ll be hosting a virtual viewing party and chat on Wednesday\, March 17 at 2:00 p.m. Central on our session page: http://bit.ly/CMEatSXSW. Can’t make it? No problem. Our panel is available for streaming starting Tuesday\, March 16 also on the session page. \nSpeakers: \nGina Masullo\, Center for Media Engagement\nAlicia Bell\, Free Press\nErica Anderson\, Spaceship Media \nDetails: \nOur society is witnessing an entrenchment of divisiveness – the media versus the public\, Democrats versus Republicans\, urban versus rural – that is so deep it even influences whether people wear masks during a global pandemic. A new approach\, called connective democracy\, seeks to bridge these divides by identifying strategies for getting people to talk across differences. Newsrooms can play a transformative role in this effort. \nThis panel will offer clear takeaways for newsroom leaders and journalists about how they can use the principles of connective democracy to better connect with and retain an audience. Connective democracy offers a roadmap to help newsrooms better understand their communities and humanize those with diverse views to help people appreciate other perspectives.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/sxsw-panel-how-newsrooms-can-help-bridge-divides/
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SUMMARY:COGSEC Conference
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCOGSEC will be hosted virtually March 4-5 and will serve as a forum for sharing what works and what doesn’t\, for piecing together knowledge about the state-of-the-art tactics being used by malicious actors in the field\, and for building the ethical norms of security research in this domain. \nThe conference will feature practical workshops on hunting and neutralizing online influence campaigns. We invite students\, scholars\, journalists\, activists\, NGO professionals\, and anyone with an interest in the real-world tools and techniques being used to deal with media manipulation threats in the field. \nTickets are $10 for general admission\, $5 for anyone with a valid .edu email address\, and free for students at UT-Austin. \nRegister now: https://hopin.com/events/cogsec-2021 \nLearn more: https://cogsec.online/conference
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/cogsec-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210302T153000
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SUMMARY:Overdoing Democracy: The Problem of Political Polarization
DESCRIPTION:Democracy is such an important social good that it seems natural to think that more is always better. However\, we also recognize that it’s possible to have too much of a good thing. 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. Today\, our everyday activities are increasingly fused with our political profiles: commercial spaces\, workplaces\, professions\, schools\, churches\, sports teams\, and even public parks now tend to embody a particular political valence. When politics is permitted to saturate our social environments\, we impair the capacities we need in order to enact democracy well. In a slogan\, when we overdo democracy in this way\, we undermine it. The solution is to build venues and activities where people can engage in cooperative activities together in which their political identities are neither bolstered nor suppressed\, but simply beside the point. If we want to do democracy well\, we need to put politics in its right place. \nDr. Robert B. Talisse is the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. An internationally recognized theorist of democracy\, Talisse has lectured throughout the world about democracy\, moral disagreement\, political polarization\, and the ethics of citizenship. Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in its Place is his tenth book. Among the books he has authored are Why We Argue (And How We  Should) (with Scott Aikin)\, Democracy and Moral Conflict\, A Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy\, and Democracy After Liberalism. \nThe Media Ethics Initiative is part of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. Follow Media Ethics Initiative and Center for Media Engagement on Facebook for more information. \nMedia Ethics Initiative events are open and free to the public. Register here for the link: https://utexas.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SQ-RSWG1ThycKmdlJsosbA
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/overdoing-democracy-the-problem-of-political-polarization/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210216T140000
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SUMMARY:Metaphor and Post-Truth Rhetorics
DESCRIPTION:The UT Austin Department of Communication Studies and the Center for Media Engagement Present: \nMetaphor’s Keepers: The Mobile Armies of Post-Truth Rhetorics \nDr. Jenny Rice \nAssociate Professor of Writing\, Rhetoric\, and Digital Studies \nUniversity of Kentucky \nFebruary 16\, 2021 ¦ 2:00PM-4:15PM CST \nVia Zoom: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/91938345106 \nMeeting ID: 919 3834 5106 \nNietzsche’s well-known aphorism that truth is a “mobile army of metaphors” suggests that rhetorical constructions of truth are only effective insofar as they remain invisible. The metaphors we mistake as truth\, he writes\, are simply “illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal\, no longer as coins.”  Yet\, while Nietzsche might have also considered himself living in a “post-truth” era\, our present rhetorical landscape is flooded by armies of mobile metaphors that have certainly not lost their sensuous power. \nConspiracy theories and white supremacist discourse\, for example\, are two specific scenes of post-truth rhetoric that have been shaped by explicit doctrines of metaphor. In this talk\, I examine the role of metaphor-talk within both 21st century anti-Semitic discourse and conspiracy-oriented Christian evangelicalism. From David Duke’s embrace of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a metaphorical text to Kenneth and Gloria Copeland’s declaration that prayer is a literal inoculation against COVID-19\, both cases reflect a kind of “truth” that is grounded in a deliberate and distinct recognition of metaphor’s rhetorical power. Rather than relying on the overly vague label post-truth to engage this discourse\, therefore\, we might find it useful to start thinking about neo-metaphorical rhetoric. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Jenny Rice is Associate Professor of Writing\, Rhetoric\, and Digital Studies at The University of Kentucky. Her work has appeared in such journals as Philosophy & Rhetoric\, Rhetoric Society Quarterly\, Quarterly Journal of Speech\, and College English. Her book Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis was published in 2012 (University of Pittsburgh Press). She co-edited (along with Casey Boyle) Inventing Texas: Writing Lone Star Rhetorics (2019\, Southern Illinois University Press). Her most recent book\, Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory\, Rhetoric\, and Acts of Evidence\, was published in 2020 by The Ohio State University Press. \nThis talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Media Engagement. \nThis event is free and open to the public with Zoom accounts; no registration required.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/metaphor-and-post-truth-rhetorics/
LOCATION:TX
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SUMMARY:New_Public Festival
DESCRIPTION: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\, Audrey Tang\, Glen Weyl\, Katherine Maher\, Madebo Fatunde and so many more — to help envision the future of digital public space. Discover the research and framework for measurable qualities of public space that we’ve been working on for the last two years. \nWe’ll be using unique interfaces\, experiential elements\, different conversation formats to collectively imagine ways we might build more vital public spaces online. \nOur full program is now available at www.newpublicfestival.org\, but here’s what you can expect: \n\nEmergent Showcase: a curation of innovative products from all over the world that are being created with the ethos of public space.\n\n\nProductive Frictions: dynamic conversations with unlikely partners that address core arguments\, challenges\, and opportunities to create a better internet.\n\n\nExperiments in Publicness: interventions from our artistic collaborators that will engage us in a connected public online.\n\n\nCivic Signals: a deep dive into our 14 signals\, or measurable qualities of public space. Discover the framework to build different informed by the findings of our global cross-disciplinary research.\n\n\nPublic Imagination: through these sessions\, we’ll crack open the future of digital public life with prompts and conversation on social at @WeAreNew_Public on Twitter.\n\n* Please note that select sessions will not be live-streamed. During this time\, we’ll be hosting conversations on Twitter at @WeAreNew_Public. \nVisit newpublicfestival.org for the latest \nNew_ Public is supported by the team at Civic Signals\, a project of the National Conference on Citizenship and the Center for Media Engagement at The University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/new_public-festival/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201209T183000
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SUMMARY:A Reflection on the Media in 2020
DESCRIPTION:2020 has been one of the most tumultuous years in our nation’s recent history\, and the media have been on the front line. As the year comes to a close\, we invite you to join us for a virtual conversation on the media’s role in this year’s events. Featuring: \n\nDavid Fahrenthold– Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter\nArthel Neville– Co-anchor for America’s News Headquarters on Fox News\nDan Rather– Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning former national evening news anchor\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP for additional details and for streaming information.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/a-reflection-on-the-media-in-2020/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20201119T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20201119T163000
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SUMMARY:Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
DESCRIPTION:David McCraw\nSenior VP & Deputy General Counsel\nThe New York Times \nNovember 19\, 2020 ¦ 3:30PM-4:30PM CST\nONLINE: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/91924198841 \nWhat is the role of journalism and the press in a time when the truth is malleable\, fake news is on the rise\, and journalistic freedom is being put into question? How can our democratic society find real and sustainable solutions to our problems of disinformation\, political polarization\, and new media technologies?  In this talk\, 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. \nDavid McCraw is Deputy General Counsel of The New York Times Company and serves as the company’s principal newsroom lawyer. He is the author of the recent book “Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts\,” a first-person account of the legal battles that helped shape The New York Times’s coverage of Donald Trump\, Harvey Weinstein\, conflicts abroad\, and Washington’s divisive politics. He has been at The Times since 2002. He is a visiting lecturer at Harvard Law School and an adjunct professor at the NYU Law School. He has done pro bono work in support of free expression in Yemen\, Russia\, Montenegro\, Bahrain\, and other countries around the world. \nThis talk is co-sponsored by the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the UT Ethics Project. The Media Ethics Initiative is part of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. Follow Media Ethics Initiative and Center for Media Engagement on Facebook for more information on future events. This presentation will be introduced by Rebecca Taylor (UT Austin Ethics Project). \nThis event is free and open to the public; no registration required. Join us via Zoom: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/91924198841
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/press-freedom-in-the-age-of-alternative-facts/
LOCATION:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/is-that-really-journalism-journalism-advocacy-tickets-187945308477
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SUMMARY:COGSEC Pre-conference Competitions
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Media Engagement\, in partnership with Conference Chair Tim Hwang\, will host COGSEC\, a new conference focusing on the real-world practice of countering online influence operations. The conference will be held virtually on March 4-5\, 2021 \nCOGSEC is aimed at bringing together a community of practitioners on the front lines of dealing with and actively combatting the efforts of malign actors online. The conference will feature practical\, hands-on workshops on hunting and neutralizing disinformation campaigns\, and competitions exposing vulnerabilities that persist in our information landscape.  \nCOGSEC is hosting two pre-conference competitions over the next few months. One competition will pit teams against one another in creating and detecting faked images. The second will focus on uncovering different aspects of the disinformation ecosystem surrounding the upcoming US presidential election.  \nCompetition winners will receive honoraria up to $10\,000 and will be invited to keynote at the conference in the spring. You can learn more and sign up to participate in the competitions here. The deadline to sign up is September 14.  \nRegistration for the conference itself will open in early 2021. You can sign up to be notified when it opens by adding your email address here.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/cogsec-pre-conference-competitions/
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SUMMARY:The Next Wave of Disinformation
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Samuel Woolley (The University of Texas at Austin) // February 27th\, 2020 // 3:30pm-4:30pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 \nOnline disinformation stormed our political process in 2016 and has only worsened since. Yet as Samuel Woolley shows in his new book The Reality Game\, it may pale in comparison to what’s to come: humanlike automated voice systems\, machine learning\, “deepfake” AI-edited videos and images\, interactive memes\, virtual reality\, and more. These technologies have the power not just to manipulate our politics\, but to make us doubt our eyes and ears and even feelings. Woolley describes the profound impact these technologies will have on our lives with an eye towards how each new invention built without regard for its consequences edges us further into this digital authoritarianism. In response\, Woolley argues for a new culture of innovation–one built around accountability and transparency. \nDr. Samuel Woolley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. As the Program Director of Propaganda Research at the Center for Media Engagement\, he studies how automated online tools such as bots and algorithms are used to enable both democracy and civic control. Woolley’s latest book\, The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth (PublicAffairs)\, came out in January 2020. His academic work has appeared in a number of peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. He has published work on politics and social media in venues including Wired\, Motherboard\, TechCrunch\, Slate\, the Guardian\, and the Atlantic. \nThe Media Ethics Initiative is part of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. \nMedia Ethics Initiative events are open and free to the public.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/the-next-wave-of-disinformation/
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SUMMARY:Debating Civil Rights: James Baldwin\, William F. Buckley Jr.\, and the Battle for the American Soul
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Nicholas Buccola (Linfield College) // November 21st\, 2019 // 3:30pm-5:00pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nIn February 1965\, James Baldwin – the poet of the civil rights revolution – and William F. Buckley Jr. – the Saint Paul of the conservative movement – met for an epic debate in Cambridge\, England. Baldwin took the opportunity to deliver a jeremiad against white supremacy and Buckley did his best to warn an international audience of Baldwin’s radical agenda. For the two decades prior to their clash at Cambridge\, Baldwin and Buckley rose to fame as prolific authors and public intellectuals. Both men were – among other things – journalists. In the years prior to the debate\, Baldwin and Buckley provide us with two very different visions of the vocation of the journalist as a witness and a storyteller. In this lecture\, Professor Buccola will describe these visions and explore the implications they might have for our own time. \nDr. Nicholas Buccola is the Elizabeth and Morris Glicksman Chair in Political Science at Linfield College. He is the author of The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin\, William F. Buckley Jr.\, and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton University Press)\, The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass (NYU Press)\, and the editor of The Essential Douglass and Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy. His essays have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and popular outlets including The New York Times\, Salon\, Dissent\, and the Claremont Review of Books. \nThe Media Ethics Initiative is part of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. Media Ethics Initiative events are open and free to the public.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/debating-civil-rights-james-baldwin-william-f-buckley-jr-and-the-battle-for-the-american-soul/
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SUMMARY:Schadenfreude
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Julia Driver (The University of Texas at Austin) // November 12th\, 2019 // 3:30pm-5:00pm // RLP 1.302E \nOne typical definition of “schadenfreude” is “a feeling of enjoyment that comes from seeing or hearing about the troubles of other people.” The word definitely picks out a distinctive moral emotion. In this paper\, I set out to do four things. My first aim in this paper is to provide an account of what schadenfreude is in such a way as to distinguish it from other moral emotions. The second is to come up with success or aptness conditions for schadenfreude\, and the third is to address the question that has preoccupied most recent philosophical literature on schadenfreude\, “is it morally bad in some way to feel it?” My answer to the later question is “it depends\,” but it depends on what position one takes on a substantive philosophical issue — is a person’s misfortune something that is always intrinsically bad? Lastly\, I attempt to sketch a view in which moral emotions like schadenfreude can (but need not) can be more or less reasonable on the basis of coherence with other warranted emotions. \nJulia Driver is Professor of Philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University. She works in normative ethics\, metaethics\, moral psychology\, and the history of Sentimentalism\, especially with respect to the work of David Hume. She is the author of three books: Uneasy Virtue\, Ethics: the Fundamentals\, and Consequentialism. Her articles have appeared in journals such as the Journal of Philosophy\, Nous\, Philosophy & Phenomenological Research\, Hypatia\, Philosophy\, Philosophical Studies\, and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy. She has received an NEH Fellowship\, a Young Scholar’s Award from Cornell’s Program in Ethics and Public Life\, a Laurence Rockefeller Fellowship at Princeton’s Center for Human Values\, a Visiting Fellowship from the Australian National University\, an H.L.A. Hart Fellowship at Oxford University\, and the Harsanyi Fellowship from the Australian National University. She is currently Vice-President\, and President-Elect\, of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. \n 
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/schadenfreude/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191029T080000
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SUMMARY:MeToo and Journalism Ethics Panel
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Gina Masullo (The University of Texas at Austin)\, Dr. Meme Drumwright (The University of Texas at Austin)\, Dr. Kate West (The University of Texas at Austin)\, Dr. Kathleen McElroy (The University of Texas at Austin)\, Dr. Scott R. Stroud (The University of Texas at Austin) // October 29th\, 2019 // 2:00pm-3:00pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nHow did sexual harassment persist for so long in journalism\, and what difference has the #MeToo movement made for those that run the media? What does ethical and effective leadership look like in newsrooms during the #MeToo era? This panel discussion features scholars from various fields in communication and media reflecting on the extent of the #MeToo movement in journalism\, as well as its intersections with leadership in the modern media environment. Confirmed participants include: \nGina Chen (Journalism\, UT Austin)\nMeme Drumwright (Advertising\, UT Austin)\nKate West (Journalism\, UT Austin)\nKathleen McElroy (Journalism\, UT Austin)\nScott R. Stroud (Communication Studies\, UT Austin) \nThe Media Ethics Initiative is part of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. Media Ethics Initiative events are open and free to the public. \nCo-Sponsored by the School of Journalism\, University of Texas at Austin\, and the UT Ethics Project
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/metoo-and-journalism-ethics-panel/
LOCATION:TX
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20191022T080000
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SUMMARY:Rebuilding Democracy in Texas: Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:October 22nd\, 2019 // 6:00pm-8:30pm // Texas Union Theatre \nThe machinery of American democracy is broken: Districts are rigged to keep power entrenched. Increasing numbers of citizens are denied access to the vote. And money has deeply corrupted campaigns. \nBut individuals\, civic organizations\, and governments are working to fix the political system. They’re pursuing electoral reforms that better represent the whole of society; advancing new models for campaign finance reform; and finding new ways to increase voter turnouts and ensuring ballot access. \nThis evening will explore those efforts and ask: What could work in Texas? \nFeaturing a preview of “The Democracy Rebellion\,” an upcoming public television documentary that tells the stories of grassroots reformers putting solutions to work. Followed by a conversation with Hedrick Smith\, Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and Emmy award-winning documentary producer\, and Ross Ramsey\, Texas Tribune co-founder; and perspective from Gary Winfield\, Connecticut state senator; Dana DeBeauvoir\, Travis County Clerk; Anthony Guiterrez\, executive director\, Common Cause Texas. Hosted by KXAN’s Josh Hinkle. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas\, KXAN-TV\, and the Texas Tribune.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/rebuilding-democracy-in-texas-screening-and-discussion/
LOCATION:TX
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SUMMARY:Why Good People Do Bad Things: The Science of Behavioral Ethics
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Robert Prentice (The University of Texas at Austin) // October 10th\, 2019 // 2:00pm-3:00pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nWhen good people do bad things\, it is usually not because they have failed to read enough Aristotle or Kant. More commonly\, their brains have given them permission to do something that\, in retrospect\, it is easy for them to see was wrong. Philosophy is integral to the study of morality\, but so is behavioral ethics—the study of how and why people make the ethical (and unethical) decisions that they do. \nRobert Prentice teaches business law and business ethics at the Texas McCombs School of Business\, UT-Austin\, where he is Chair of the Business Government & Society Department and the faculty director of the Ethics Unwrapped Video Series and Educational Program in the Center for Leadership and Ethics.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/why-good-people-do-bad-things-the-science-of-behavioral-ethics/
LOCATION:TX
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190926T080000
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SUMMARY:Ethics\, Technology\, and You: Pragmatic Scenarios and Frameworks for Guidance
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca (Becky) Taylor (The Ethics Project at UT Austin) // September 26th\, 2019 // 1:00pm-2:00pm //RLP 1.302C \nAre we lost as a society when it comes to the technologies we build\, those that we depend on\, and those that shape our desires and experiences? What are the ethics of new technologies? Join the UT Ethics Project for a discussion of practical stories\, pressing issues\, and ethical concerns in our efforts to build\, sell\, and use technology. Rebecca Taylor\, an Industry Fellow of the Ethics Project\, will show us how tech firms are in a maze now with no viable map to escape some of their most pressing ethical quandaries. Discussion will be encouraged during this session. \nRebecca Taylor is a Managing Partner at RST Associates\, LLC. and is the Industry Fellow for The Ethics Project at UT Austin. She brings more than 30 years of technology and business experience to the project\, in both startups and large organizations. Ms. Taylor’s experience\, together with an abiding interest in developing ethical frameworks that are practical and impactful\, will aid The Ethics Project in learning more specifically what ethical issues are of most importance to industry and other non-academic organizations. She is available to discuss areas of interest to the technology and greater business community\, in terms of practical dilemmas facing companies as they build advanced technology products.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/ethics-technology-and-you-pragmatic-scenarios-and-frameworks-for-guidance/
LOCATION:TX
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SUMMARY:Good Systems: Designing Values-Driven AI Technologies Is Our Grand Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kenneth R. Fleischmann \nProfessor in the School of Information\nUniversity of Texas at Austin \nSeptember 24\, 2019 (Tuesday) ¦ 3:30PM-4:30PM ¦ CMA 5.136 (LBJ Room) \n\nTechnology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” This is the first law of technology\, outlined by historian Melvin Kranzberg in 1985. It means that technology is only good or bad if we perceive it to be that way based on our own value system. At the same time\, because the people who design technology value some things more or less than others\, their values influence their designs. Michael Crichton’s “Jurassic Park” chaos theorist\, Ian Malcolm\, notes: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could\, they didn’t stop to think about if they should.” That’s the question we have to ask now: Should we increasingly automate various aspects of society? How can we ensure that advances in AI are beneficial to humanity\, not detrimental? How can we develop technology that makes life better for all of us\, not just some? What unintended consequences are we overlooking or ignoring by developing technology that has the power to be manipulated and misused\, from undermining elections to exacerbating racial inequality? \nThe Inaugural Chair of the Good Systems Grand Challenge\, Ken Fleischmann\, will present the eight-year research mission of Good Systems\, as well as our educational and outreach activities. Specifically\, he will discuss the upcoming Good Systems launch events and ways that faculty\, researchers\, staff\, and students can become involved in the Good Systems Grand Challenge. \nThe Media Ethics Initiative is part of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. Follow Media Ethics Initiative and Center for Media Engagement on Facebook for more information. Media Ethics Initiative events are open and free to the public.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/good-systems-designing-values-driven-ai-technologies-is-our-grand-challenge-2/
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SUMMARY:Good Systems: Designing Values-Driven AI Technologies Is Our Grand Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kenneth R. Fleischmann (The University of Texas at Austin) // September 24th\, 2019 // 3:30pm-4:30pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 \nTechnology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” This is the first law of technology\, outlined by historian Melvin Kranzberg in 1985. It means that technology is only good or bad if we perceive it to be that way based on our own value system. At the same time\, because the people who design technology value some things more or less than others\, their values influence their designs. Michael Crichton’s “Jurassic Park” chaos theorist\, Ian Malcolm\, notes: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could\, they didn’t stop to think about if they should.” That’s the question we have to ask now: Should we increasingly automate various aspects of society? How can we ensure that advances in AI are beneficial to humanity\, not detrimental? How can we develop technology that makes life better for all of us\, not just some? What unintended consequences are we overlooking or ignoring by developing technology that has the power to be manipulated and misused\, from undermining elections to exacerbating racial inequality? \nThe Inaugural Chair of the Good Systems Grand Challenge\, Ken Fleischmann\, will present the eight-year research mission of Good Systems\, as well as our educational and outreach activities. Specifically\, he will discuss the upcoming Good Systems launch events and ways that faculty\, researchers\, staff\, and students can become involved in the Good Systems Grand Challenge. \nThe Media Ethics Initiative is part of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. Media Ethics Initiative events are open and free to the public.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/good-systems-designing-values-driven-ai-technologies-is-our-grand-challenge/
LOCATION:TX
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190502T133000
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SUMMARY:Weather Media in the Public Sphere
DESCRIPTION:Dr. John Durham Peters (Yale University) // May 2nd\, 2019 // 1:30pm-3:00pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nOn its face\, weather sounds like the most banal and mundane thing possible. Ordinary people look down on talking about it and journalists often regard it as the lowest kind of news. This talk aims to show that the accusation that talking about the weather is intellectually empty is hardly the case in the age of climate change\, and even dangerous. The rise of weather as a topic of conversation coincides with the rise of the bourgeois public sphere. More broadly\, weather is a key part of media history. The history of human interaction with weather is also a history of cultural techniques and media technologies. Dramatists and divines have sought meaning from atmospheric events. Reading the skies is one paradigm case of human-nature interaction\, and studying weather can stand in as part for whole as an inquiry into the environments humans have made or unmade. The history of modern weather forecasting is also a history of the militarization of the sky and oceans\, and is co-extensive with the history of modern telecommunications\, computation\, and reporting. Weather raises two questions of profound interest to recent media theory: how mundane infrastructures are full of meaning and how vaporous or evanescent entities can be tracked\, recorded\, and programmed. Talking about the weather is not dumb; it may be essential. \nDr. John Durham Peters is a leading scholar in the area of media history\, communication theory\, and philosophy. He is the María Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film & Media Studies at Yale University. Previously\, Peters taught at the University of Iowa between 1986-2016. He is the author a range of books\, including Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication\, Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition\, and most recently\, The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media. He has held fellowships with the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Fulbright Foundation\, and the Leverhulme Trust. \nThe Media Ethics Initiative is part of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. Media Ethics Initiative events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/weather-media-in-the-public-sphere/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190425T080000
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SUMMARY:Race\, Gender\, and Toxicity Online Plenary Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Zizi Papacharissi (University of Illinois-Chicago)\, Dr. Lisa Nakamura (University of Michigan)\, Dr. Catherine Knight Steele (University of Maryland)\, Dr. Gina Masullo (The University of Texas at Austin) // April 25th\, 2019 // 9:30am-11:00am // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nSponsored by: Social Science Research Council\, Center for Media Engagement\, and Media & Democracy Network \nThe parallel rise of Black Lives Matter\, #MeToo\, and the so-called alt-right suggests that in 2018\, political realities still vary significantly by race and gender. As ever-greater shares of our time are spent online\, it is important to ask whether these realities are mirrored in the digital public sphere or whether— and how—they differ. Join us in a discussion about the intersection of race\, gender\, and the digital public sphere. \nSpeakers\nDr. Zizi Papacharissi is Professor and Head of the Communication Department\, Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois-Chicago\, and University Scholar at the University of Illinois System. Her work focuses on the social and political consequences of online media. She has published nine books\, over 70 journal articles and book chapters\, and serves on the editorial boards of 15 journals. Dr. Papacharissi is founding and current Editor of Social Media + Society and is working on her 10th book\, After Democracy\, with Yale University Press. \nDr. Lisa Nakamura is a Professor at the University of Michigan\, where she holds appointments in the university’s American Culture\, Screen Arts and Cultures and Women’s Studies departments. Her research interests include Asian American studies\, feminist theory\, digital game theories and race and gender in new media. Dr. Nakamura has written or co-edited four books about race\, identity\, and the internet and serves on the editorial board of 10 journals. \nDr. Catherine Knight Steele is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland. She is also the first project director of Maryland’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded College of Arts and Humanities grant\, Synergies Among Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture. Her research targets topics including race\, gender\, digital cultures\, new media\, and online social justice. \nModerator\nDr. Gina Masullo Chen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and the Assistant Director of the Center for Media Engagement\, both at The University of Texas at Austin\, USA. Her research focuses on the online conversation around the news and how it influences social\, civic\, and political engagement. She is the author of Online Incivility and Public Debate: Nasty Talk and co-editor of Scandal in a Digital Age. She is writing her third book\, The New Town Hall: Why We Engage Personally with Politicians. She spent 20 years as a newspaper journalist before becoming a professor.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/race-gender-and-toxicity-online-plenary-roundtable/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190411T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190411T170000
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SUMMARY:Devaluing The News: How People Appropriate Journalistic Content
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Pablo J. Boczkowski (Northwestern University) // April 11th\, 2019 // 12:00pm-1:30pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 \nThe Center for Media Engagement Speaker Series promotes discussion about critical issues in journalism\, social technology\, and other communication media. We feature renowned scholars\, experts\, and professionals to share their research and perspectives on these topics. \nHow have our technology and media practices evolved to deal with a world in which we spend 7% of our time awake on social media\,\nrotate computer screens every 12 seconds — and cellphone screens considerably faster — watch the new season of our favorite thriller in four days\, and encounter news stories everywhere and all the time\, even when we want to get away from them? Dr. Boczkowski will be highlighting these answers in his discussion about “Abundance\,” a book manuscript-in-progress. The book offers an account of the lived experience of an exponential increase in the volume and availability of information that has taken place over the past couple of decades. This project draws from 158 interviews conducted between March 2016 and December 2017 in four cities in Argentina\, and a survey of 700 adults administered in Buenos Aires and its suburbs in October 2016. The analysis highlights the enduring yet transformed role played by constellations of meaning and everyday routines; the growing attachment to devices\, relationships\, and content that marks our evolving subjectivity and sociability; and the fundamental instability of a society for which age has become a preeminent organizer of technology and media life. \nPablo J. Boczkowski is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University\, co-director of the Center for the Study of Media and Society in Argentina\, and senior research fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society in Germany. From 2014 to 2017 he served as the inaugural MSLCE faculty director. He earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University in 2001\, and was on the faculty at MIT from 2001 until he joined Northwestern in 2005. His research program examines the dynamics of digital culture from a comparative perspective. He is the author of three books\, three edited volumes\, over thirty journal articles\, twenty book chapters\, and eighty conference presentations. He is currently the coordinator of Project NET\, a study of the consumption of news\, entertainment\, and technology in Argentina\, Finland\, Israel\, Japan\, and the United States.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/devaluing-the-news-how-people-appropriate-journalistic-content/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190409T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190409T170000
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SUMMARY:The Spectacle of Lynching Redeployed: On the Performance of Democratic Regard
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Melvin Rogers (Brown University) // April 9th\, 2019 // 3:30pm-5:00pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 \nAmerica’s history is marked by a striking image—“black bodies swinging in the southern breeze.” Abel Meeropol—a Jewish American—first articulated this line in his 1937 published poem\, “Bitter Fruit\,” after viewing Lawrence Beitler’s horrific lynching photograph. Although Meeropol eventually put the words to music\, it was jazz singer Billie Holiday’s haunting rendition of the song\, now titled “Strange Fruit\,” first recorded in 1939 that made it a classic. How does one practically and conceptually engage the simultaneous existence of a professed commitment to equality and liberty alongside the fact that white Americans visually digested those with whom they otherwise shared the polity? I engage this vexing issue by reflecting on the normative possibilities latent in Holiday’s performative rendition of Meeropol’s song. \nDr. Melvin Rogers is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University. He is the author of “The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion\, Morality\, and the Ethos of Democracy” (Columbia University Press\, 2008) and co-editor of “African American Political Thought: A Collected History” (University of Chicago Press\, forthcoming). His articles have appeared in major academic journals as well as popular venues such as Dissent\, The Atlantic\, Public Seminar\, and Boston Review. Rogers serves as the co-editor of the New Histories of Philosophy series at Oxford University Press. Presently\, he is at work on his second book\, “The Darkened Light of Faith: Race\, Democracy\, and Freedom in African American Political Thought.” \nThe Media Ethics Initiative is part of the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin. \nMedia Ethics Initiative events are free and open to the public.
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SUMMARY:Understanding News Avoidance: Perceptions About Audiences
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Benjamin Toff (University of Minnesota) // April 5th\, 2019 // 12:00pm-1:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.102 \nThe Center for Media Engagement Speaker Series promotes discussion about critical issues in journalism\, social technology\, and other communication media. We feature renowned scholars\, experts\, and professionals to share their research and perspectives on these topics. \nOne of the most consistent themes in communication research is the assumption that journalism’s main democratic function is to transmit information so people can make informed political decisions and hold power to account. But a considerable share of the public say they rarely or never follow the news\, limiting participation in civic life. This presentation will provide an overview of research on this phenomenon of “news avoidance\,” summarizing findings from an ongoing project involving in-depth interviews with news avoiders in the UK\, Spain\, and\, in its next phase\, the US as well. Much of the presentation will focus on a particular theory flowing from this research: an identity-based model of news use and avoidance. Whereas most scholarship presumes that people derive a combination of informational and “ritual” benefits from consuming news\, we argue much is contingent upon how individuals view themselves and the communities they belong to. That is\, news habits are particularly shaped by social identity and social relations: perceptions concerning the status of people who consume news and exposure to conversations about news. For news avoiders\, high costs of consuming news in terms of time or emotional resources are not offset by perceived benefits because the value of political information is contingent on whether people feel they belong to groups where knowledge of such information is deemed valuable as social currency. So long as such dynamics shape whether people develop news consumption habits\, efforts to increase news use among the broader public by focusing merely on the content of news may have a limited impact. \nDr. Ben Toff is an Assistant Professor at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota and a Research Associate at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. He studies the changing media landscape and its impact on journalistic practice\, elite messaging\, and how citizens engage in political and civic life. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016\, and from 2005-2011\, he was a researcher on the editorial page of the New York Times.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/understanding-news-avoidance-perceptions-about-audiences/
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SUMMARY:Challenges to the News-Information-Democracy Narrative
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Esther Thorson (Michigan State University) // March 28th\, 2019 // 5:00pm-6:15pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 3.206 \nThe Center for Media Engagement Speaker Series promotes discussion about critical issues in journalism\, social technology\, and other communication media. We feature renowned scholars\, experts\, and professionals to share their research and perspectives on these topics. \nThere is much research that assumes traditional news use leads to knowledgeable citizens who actively participate in their democracy. Recent work in partnership with the Florida Times-Union newspaper (Jacksonville) has led Dr. Thorson to question whether “news information” is critical to democratic participation\, and explore other routes to that participation. She welcomes your insights into the models of participation she is presently exploring. \nProfessor Thorson joined the MSU faculty in fall\, 2016. During the prior 23 years she was Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research Director at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. Thorson is one of the most cited scholars in advertising\, and the Interactive Advertising Model (with Shelly Rodgers\, 2000; 2017) is one of the most-cited theory articles in advertising. The second edition of their edited book on internet advertising (Rogers & Thorson\, Digital Advertising) appeared in 2017. The third edition of their edited advertising theory text (Rogers & Thorson\, Theories of Advertising) was published in 2017. \nThorson also studies the relationships between news consumption and political participation. One of the foci of this work is how youth learn about and become involved in politics. Her co-edited book published in 2016 summarizes much of this work (Thorson\, Mitchell\, & Shah\, Political socialization in a media-saturated world). Thorson is a Fellow of the American Academy of Advertising and of the International Communication Association. In 2017 she was awarded AEJMC’s Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award and this year will receive the Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research.
URL:https://mediaengagement.org/event/challenges-to-the-news-information-democracy-narrative/
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