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Webinar: Media Alternatives, Thurs 8 Dec

  • 1.  Webinar: Media Alternatives, Thurs 8 Dec

    Posted 12-05-2022 10:29

    You're invited...

     

    MEDIA ALTERNATIVES

     

    Thursday 8 December 2022, 10:30-11:30am Pacific Time (7:30–8:30pm UTC). On Zoom. Register here: tinyurl.com/mu6tkbua

     

    How can we tell stories, organize media work, and design platforms to serve democracy? In America and around the world, media are underperforming as watchdogs on power, spaces for democratic deliberation, and defenders of equal rights. But, away from the mainstream, various exciting projects are under way to reform journalism practice, business models, and internet platforms. Join our webinar to find out more. 

     

    SPEAKERS

     

    Ayleen Cabas-Mijares is an assistant professor of journalism and media studies at Marquette University. Using a critical/cultural lens, Cabas-Mijares examines the relationship between media, journalism, and social change, specifically the role of media in the constitution and activism of social movements. Dr. Cabas-Mijares' work centers phenomena in the context of Latin America and the Latinx diaspora. 

     

    David Kaplan, Executive Director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network, helped develop the model of a nonprofit investigative news enterprise at the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco in the 1980s and 90s. He has served as editorial director of the Center for Public Integrity and director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

     

    Minna Aslam Horowitz, a Docent Professor at the University of Helsinki, studies (public media) policies, digital rights, and media activism. She is also affiliated with the Nordic Observatory for Digital Media and Information Disorder (NORDIS), St. John's University, New York, and the Central European University, Vienna. She serves on the Think Tank of the Nordic Council of Ministers to address platformization. 

     

    Host and moderator

     

    Cherian George is professor of media studies at Hong Kong Baptist University on sabbatical at Stanford, where he is a visiting scholar at the Stanford University Department of Communication. He writes on media freedom, censorship, and hate propaganda. His current research focuses on counter-polarization efforts in divided societies. 

     

     

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    Cherian George | Department of Communication, Stanford University (Visiting, Fall 2022) | Professor and Associate Dean, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University | Editor, AcademiaSG | Twitter | LinkedIn | My personal website

     

     

     

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