Dr. Robert Lewis (The University of Texas at Austin) // October 19th, 2017 // 11:30am-12:30pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 Most people spend their leisure time engaged […]
Dr. Gregory F. Pappas (Texas A&M University ) // October 26th, 2017 // 12:30pm-2:00pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 We live in a digital-electronic age and the […]
Dr. Angeline Close Scheinbaum (The University of Texas at Austin), Dr. Gary Wilcox (The University of Texas at Austin), Dr. Scott R. Stroud (The University of Texas at Austin), Jonathan Henson […]
Dr. Jean Goodwin (North Carolina State University) // November 14th, 2017 // 2:00pm-3:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 What are the ethical choices being made when arguers […]
Dr. Kate Pounders (The University of Texas at Austin) // January 30th, 2018 // 3:30pm-4:30pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 A large body of work has documented […]
Dr. Talia Stroud (The University of Texas at Austin) // February 22nd, 2018 // 3:30pm-4:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC 5.102) Some think our democracy is in trouble, and that our news media hold the key to fixing our problems. How can our scholarship guide news media in such a role? Does what […]
Dr. Scott R. Stroud (The University of Texas at Austin) // February 27th, 2018 // 2:00pm-3:15pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 Is fighting fake news as simple as it seems to be? What ethical challenges will our efforts to stomp out fake news create? More and more attention is being directed at […]
Dr. danah boyd (Microsoft Research, Data & Society) // March 6th, 2018 // 5:00pm-6:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 1.202 Data-driven and algorithmic systems increasingly underpin many decision-making […]
March 10th, 2018 // 5:00pm-6:00pm // JW Marriott Austin Donald Trump and other politicians are using social media to bypass the media and get their message straight to the public. […]
Dr. David J. Gunkel (Northern Illinois University) // April 3rd, 2018 // 2:00pm-3:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 Whether we recognize it or not, we are in […]