Dr. Benjamin Toff (University of Minnesota) // April 5th, 2019 // 12:00pm-1:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.102 The 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 […]
Dr. Melvin Rogers (Brown University) // April 9th, 2019 // 3:30pm-5:00pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 America’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 […]
Dr. Pablo J. Boczkowski (Northwestern University) // April 11th, 2019 // 12:00pm-1:30pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 The 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 […]
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 Sponsored by: Social Science Research Council, Center for Media Engagement, and Media & Democracy Network The […]
Dr. John Durham Peters (Yale University) // May 2nd, 2019 // 1:30pm-3:00pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 On 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 […]
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 Technology 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 […]
Dr. Kenneth R. Fleischmann Professor in the School of Information University of Texas at Austin September 24, 2019 (Tuesday) ¦ 3:30PM-4:30PM ¦ CMA 5.136 (LBJ Room) Technology 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 […]
Rebecca (Becky) Taylor (The Ethics Project at UT Austin) // September 26th, 2019 // 1:00pm-2:00pm //RLP 1.302C Are 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 […]
Dr. Robert Prentice (The University of Texas at Austin) // October 10th, 2019 // 2:00pm-3:00pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 When 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, […]
October 22nd, 2019 // 6:00pm-8:30pm // Texas Union Theatre The 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. But individuals, civic organizations, and governments are working to fix the political system. They’re pursuing electoral […]
