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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190501
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SUMMARY:Open Postdoctoral Position\, Faculty Mentor Jennifer Pan
DESCRIPTION:“We\, Jennifer Pan and Yiqing Xu\, are looking to hire an outstanding and motivated full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow. The position will be based at Stanford. The position will last for 2 years\, starting in Fall 2019. \nThe postdoctoral fellow will work with us on various projects related to public preferences\, media\, and politics in China. The principal job of the postdoc will be to design and implement survey and experimental research. She or he will be involved in all aspects of the research\, but with a particular emphasis on survey and experimental design\, study implementation\, data acquisition\, and data analysis. Additionally\, the postdoc will have the opportunity to work with large-scale textual data. \nThe postdoc will have the opportunity to co-author papers envisioned to appear in top journals that report on the results of the studies. Both PIs are committed to closely interacting with the research fellow. \nThe initial appointment will be for one year beginning between October and December 2019\, with an expected renewal for a second year contingent on satisfactory performance and funding. Salary is competitive\, and benefits are provided. \nApplicants who have questions about the position may contact Jennifer Pan (jp1@stanford.edu\, Subject: Postdoc 2019).”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/open-postdoctoral-position-faculty-mentor-jennifer-pan/
CATEGORIES:Employment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190507T170000
DTSTAMP:20261019T163131
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SUMMARY:Media for Democracy Forum #M4DF
DESCRIPTION:“Interested in the ways media and information technologies support democratic communities and institutions all around the world? \nJoin the U.S. Agency for Global Media\, media experts\, practitioners\, opinion leaders and policy makers for the Media for Democracy Forum #M4DF: a multi-session event designed for exchanging ideas and networking.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/media-for-democracy-forum-m4df/
LOCATION:U.S Agency for Global Media\, Washington D.C\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190508
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190509
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SUMMARY:Job Call: Chair in Communication and Media
DESCRIPTION:“The Department of Communication and Media at Liverpool wishes to appoint a progressive and forward-thinking Chair in the context of an international and collaborative University. You will be an excellent and passionate researcher with an outstanding track record of world-leading publications\, and ambitious research plans for the future\, including potential impact pathways and plans for grant capture. We particularly encourage applicants who would strengthen and/or complement one or more of our current research groupings: Culture\, Space and Memory; Discourse and Society; Media\, Politics and Society; Screen and Film Studies. Applicants with other areas of research expertise are also welcome. \nExperience of winning major research council funding and/or a proven record of securing other sources of research income will be highly desirable. \nFor informal enquires about the role please contact Professor Peter Buse\, Dean of School of the Arts\, smo@liverpool.ac.ukor Tracy Mann\, PA\, on 0151 795 0563.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/job-call-chair-in-communication-and-media/
LOCATION:University of Liverpool\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Employment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190508T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190508T200000
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SUMMARY:Surveillance Capitalism\, Human Autonomy\, and You
DESCRIPTION:“Every time we search on a browser\, buy something online\, or post to our friends on social media\, we are leveraging free resources to save time and money. But our clicks and keystrokes also fuel a massive\, algorithm-powered industry that exploits our online experiences for profit. These dynamics are the focus of Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism\, a chilling expose of today’s digital economy. Zuboff details how data about our digital activities is used to create predictive models of our behavior\, and how a range of corporate entities manipulate that data for profit and power. Join us for this illuminating discussion about surveillance capitalism’s exploitation of human experience in the digital age and how\, according to Zuboff\, our privacy\, security\, and the very idea of free will are being undermined.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/surveillance-capitalism-human-autonomy-and-you/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Historical Society\, Brooklyn\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190509
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190510
DTSTAMP:20261019T163131
CREATED:20190412T180127Z
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SUMMARY:Reporting From the Front Lines of the Information Wars
DESCRIPTION:“Good journalism is no longer sufficient to combat the assault on truth and democracy. Media companies are striving to counter the threat of information warfare by working in new and different ways\, and to respond to the ethics challenges posed by this struggle. \nAt this exclusive event\, you’ll hear from journalists—including Daily Beast Editor Noah Schactman\, NPR Media Reporter David Folkenflik and Rappler co-founder Maria Ressa—about building credibility in the era of liars and leaks. You’ll dissect case studies with standards editors including The New York Times’ Phil Corbett and CNN’s Stephen Holmes. And you’ll better prepare for the future with insights from researchers\, security experts\, and big tech companies. \nJoin the Columbia Journalism Review\, the Poynter Institute\, and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism as we define the extent of this new information war and identify new best practices for media organizations. The event marks the formal launch of Columbia’s Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security and Poynter’s Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/reporting-from-the-front-lines-of-the-information-wars/
LOCATION:Columbia School of Journalism\, New York City\, NY\, 1120
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190518
DTSTAMP:20261019T163131
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SUMMARY:The Web Conference 2019
DESCRIPTION:“The Web Conference (formerly known as WWW conference) is a yearly international conference on the topic of the World Wide Web \nThe conference began in 1994 at CERN and is organized each year by a local team of volunteers in different parts of the world who come together to organize the conference in collaboration with the International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee (IW3C2). The Conference aims to provide the world with a premier forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web\, the standardization of its associated technologies\, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture. The conference brings together researchers\, policy makers\, developers\, users and commercial ventures — indeed all those who are passionate about the Web and what it has to offer. \nIn 2019\, The Web Conference will be hosted in San Francisco\, California\, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Web. We come together on May 13-17\, 2019 at a time when more than 50% of the world’s population will have access to the Web via internet. We seek to seize these moments to reflect on the past 30 years of the Web and plan together for the future of it\, to rethink a Web that is truly inclusive and open\, a Web for Good.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-web-conference-2019/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190515T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190515T193000
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SUMMARY:Facebook Made Me Do It: Social Media and Democracy | The Alliance Series
DESCRIPTION:“Social media platforms recently came under scrutiny after they failed to prevent the creation of fake accounts aimed at manipulating the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. The impact of social media on democracy and public debate is felt in many other ways: today’s algorithms\, for instance\, tend to encourage the spread of emotionally charged opinions\, and create rabbit holes of converging viewpoints rather that exposing us to conflicting perspectives; the most extreme views or those that express moral outrage also tend to gain more traction than moderate and balanced opinions. At the same time\, social media have provided new platforms for democratic debate\, encouraging a broader range of individuals to engage in political dialogue\, and have made a diversity of channels available to users on which they can express themselves. \nThis conversation on social media and democracy between Joan Donovan\, Director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at the Harvard Kennedy School and Célia Zolynski and Judith Rochfeld\, Law Professors from Paris I Sorbonne\, is presented as part of the Alliance Series at Albertine. The conversation will be moderated by Kris-Stella Trump\, director of the Anxieties of Democracy program at the Social Science Research Council.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/facebook-made-me-do-it-social-media-and-democracy-the-alliance-series/
LOCATION:Albertine\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190515T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190515T203000
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SUMMARY:The Myth of the Media: Historicizing Journalism's Role in American Democracy
DESCRIPTION:“Alternative facts and fake news have complicated our trust in the Fourth Estate\, but has our media ever been truly objective and democratic? Join BHS and the Social Science Research Council for a discussion that challenges that notion and explores America’s long-standing romanticizing of what the media is and how it functions. Race\, gender\, and power have always played an essential role defining the news we serve to the public. We’ll look at the people who have benefitted from this – and those who have been harmed – with SiriusSM host and former New York Daily News columnist Karen Hunter; Kim Gallon\, founder and director of the Black Press Research Collective and assistant professor of history at Purdue University; and Andie Tucher\, director of Columbia Journalism School’s PhD program who is currently working on a book about the history of fake news. Moderated by Kathryn Cramer Brownell\, associate professor at Purdue whose work focuses on the how media and popular culture influence American political institutions.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/the-myth-of-the-media-historicizing-journalisms-role-in-american-democracy/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Historical Society\, Brooklyn\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190517
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190519
DTSTAMP:20261019T163131
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190425T174006Z
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SUMMARY:Democracy and Digital Media
DESCRIPTION:“In 1998\, MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program held the first Media in Transition (MiT) conference and inaugurated a related book series. Research from that first MiT conference appeared in Democracy and New Media\, Jenkins & Thorburn\, eds.\, (MIT Press\, 2003). Now\, twenty years later\, we are organizing the 10th iteration of the event. Much has changed over these two decades\, but the theme “democracy and digital media” is as urgent as ever. Twenty years ago there was no Facebook\, Twitter\, or Netflix. iPhones and Samsung Galaxies had not yet hit the shelves. And Siri and Alexa were still in development. Since 1998\, media have undergone major transition. We have witnessed a shift from Napster to Spotify\, from Web 1.0 to 2.0\, from CU-SeeMe to Twitch TV\, and beyond. We have experienced the rise of social media\, civic media\, algorithmic cultures\, and have seen ever greater concentration of media ownership. The events of 9/11 catalyzed intensified state surveillance and privatized security using various media technologies. Undergirding these shifts have been major transformations in global media infrastructure\, the platformization of the Internet\, and the ubiquity of the mobile phone. \nIn the US\, we also have seen changes in the news ecosystem with the likes of ProPublica and community engagement journalism. At the same time\, public trust in media has dropped from 55% in 1998 to 32% in 2016\, according to a Pew report. For better and worse\, a growth of interest in media ritual and a decline in the more familiar transmission paradigm is underway. Given such changes\, concepts of participation\, trust\, and democracy are increasingly fraught and have been powerfully repositioned. How will our news media look and sound in the next decade? What can we learn from news media of the past? What can international perspectives reveal about the variability and plasticity of media landscapes? How are non-traditional sources of learning\, knowledge production\, and participation reshaping civic spheres? We are interested in how these issues play out across media\, whether as represented in television series and films\, or enacted in rule set and player interactions in games\, or enabled in community media\, music\, social media\, and talk radio. We welcome research that considers these issues in public media and commercial media\, with individual users and collective stakeholders\, across media infrastructures and media texts\, and embedded in various historical eras or cultural settings.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/democracy-and-digital-media/
LOCATION:Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, Boston\, MA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190519T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190519T160000
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SUMMARY:First Annual CivicLex Media & Democracy Seminar
DESCRIPTION:“Please join us for the First Annual CivicLex Media & Democracy Seminar at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning! \nThe event will feature a panel conversation with Andrea Hart (City Bureau Chicago)\, Tom Eblen (Lexington Herald-Leader) and Carly Muetterties (Kentucky Council for the Social Studies)\, followed by an interactive workshop focusing on the Knight Foundation and Aspen Institute’s 2019 report Crisis in Democracy.”
URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/first-annual-civiclex-media-democracy-seminar/
LOCATION:Carnegie Center for Literacy\, Lexington\, KY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190524
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190529
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SUMMARY:69th Annual ICA Conference "Communication Beyond Boundaries"
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URL:https://mediawell.ssrc.org/event/69th-annual-ica-conference-communication-beyond-boundaries/
LOCATION:Washington Hilton Hotel\, Washington D.C.\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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