Great Talk Inc and The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute JHU current a free occasion – Social Media: Its Effect on Free Speech, the News & Social Norms. The Profits and the Trappings. This panel dialogue will happen on Wednesday, April 10 at 7pm and hosted by BWTech at UMBC South, 1450 South Rolling Road, Baltimore, MD 21227. Registration is free for each in-individual or Livestream. A free reception will instantly observe, due to the beneficiant assist of Glenmore Caterers.
PANEL OF EXPERTS
JENNIFER KEOHANE, Associate Professor & Program Director, Digital Communication, Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences, University of Baltimore.
Jennifer Keohane is affiliate professor on the University of Baltimore, the place she directs the undergraduate program in digital communication and oversees the overall schooling program in oral communication. She holds an MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in rhetoric, politics, and tradition, the place she studied girls affiliated with the American Communist Party, a venture that turned the e book Feminist Voices and Communist Rhetoric in Cold War America.
As a rhetorical critic, Jennifer research how advocates for social actions use symbols like language and pictures to make change on the earth. In 2016, she co-based the analysis lab for Character Assassination and Reputation Politics (CARP), the place she research how invective is weaponized in political communication. In collaboration with this analysis lab, she co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management and co-wrote Character Assassination and Reputation Management: Theory and Applications. You may discover her work in educational journals like Women’s Studies in Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, and the Journal for the History of Rhetoric.
DR ELIZABETH M H NEWBURY, Director of the Serious Games Initiative for the Wilson Center.
Dr. Elizabeth M H Newbury is the Director for the Serious Games Initiative for the Wilson Center, main the Wilson Center’s use of video games in partaking the general public round coverage analysis. As lead of the Serious Games Initiative, she leverages video games as a instrument for the general public communication of science and coverage analysis. Under her management, SGI is pursuing how public coverage and science can come collectively in an interactive platform to extend public dialogue and engagement round well timed and important problems with in the present day. Current initiatives embrace the Fiscal Ship, a sport concerning the federal finances developed and maintained in collaboration with the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy with the Brookings Institute. The Wilson Center’s finances video games have been performed by over 3 million individuals worldwide.
Collaborating throughout the Wilson Center, her works in progress embrace video games pertaining to matters starting from cybsecurity and plastic air pollution. Outside of the Wilson Center, she helps coordinate throughout federal companies to assist assist the ecosystem of video games used for social good, by means of chairing the Federal Games Guild, a casual group of apply with over 100 company members united by the aim to see how they’ll leverage gaming applied sciences to fulfill mission targets.
She holds a B.A. in anthropology from Bryn Mawr College, and a Master and PhD from the Department of Communication at Cornell University, the place her analysis pursuits revolved round understanding a number of dimensions of gaming audiences and the encircling tradition of those that play video video games within the context of esports. She married right into a Baltimore household and is contractually obligated to assist the Ravens and O’s (once they don’t compete with the Nationals).
DR LANCE YONG JIN PARK, Professor on the School of Communications at Howard University, and Faculty Associate at Harvard Law School.
Dr. Lance Yong Jin Park is Professor on the School of Communications at Howard University and Faculty Associate at Harvard Law School. His works focus on the results of rising AI applied sciences in intersection with social and coverage issues. Currently, his analysis seems to be at how the mix of AI, algorithm, and private information contributes to social and racial inequalities in data consumption. Dr. Lance Yong Jin Park’s e book The Future of Digital Surveillance (University of Michigan Press, 2021) examines AI in its perpetual urge for food for information surveillance, AI and social media.
He was an inaugural 2022-23 BKC, RSM Visiting Professor, at Harvard; acquired a number of exterior grants from Facebook, Scripps Foundation, ANA, Urban Comm. Foundation, and extra. The most up-to-date grant is from Mozilla Foundation, because the grant goals to review and train learn how to debias AI algorithmic modeling. He was beforehand a Research Fellow on the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, and EPIC (Electronic Privacy Info Center), DC. He made a coverage testimony at FCC; consulted FTC for darkish patterns on-line; and acquired quite a few prime papers awards from prime data-communication conferences. He accomplished his doctorate on the University of Michigan and his MA at USC Annenberg School.
MODERATOR: DR MARK FELDSTEIN, Richard Eaton Chair of Broadcast Journalism on the University of Maryland, College Park.
Mark Feldstein spent 20 years as an award-profitable on-air investigative correspondent at CNN, ABC News and varied native tv stations.
On project, he was overwhelmed up, subpoenaed and sued within the U.S.; detained and censored by authorities authorities in Egypt; and escorted in a foreign country underneath armed guard in Haiti.
His exposés led to resignations, firings, multimillion greenback fines and jail phrases — and greater than 50 journalism awards, together with two George Foster Peabody medallions, the Columbia-DuPont baton, the nationwide Edward R. Murrow broadcasting prize and 9 regional Emmys.
As a scholar, Feldstein has been printed in quite a few peer-reviewed journals. His e book “Poisoning the Press” earned prime educational awards for analysis and was chosen by The Washington Post and different newspapers as a greatest e book of the yr.
Feldstein is usually quoted as a media analyst by main shops within the U.S. and overseas, and has testified as an knowledgeable witness on First Amendment points earlier than Congress and in courtroom, most not too long ago on behalf of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
He has traveled to greater than 30 international locations and lectured world wide on investigative reporting, censorship, freedom of the press, and journalism historical past and ethics.
