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</font><font size=1><u>MIT COMMUNICATONS FORUM<br>
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</font><font size=5 color="#666666"><b>evangelicals and the
media</font><font color="#666666"> <br>
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Thursday, April 5 <br>
5-7 pm<br>
<a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=3&Buildings=go">
3-270</a> <br><br>
American Evangelicals have a long history of engagement with the media,
dating back to the Great Awakening of the late eighteenth century. Today
Evangelical groups are active in all media, from the Internet and
cellular telephones to print journalism, broadcasting, film, and
multi-media entertainment. This forum convenes speakers from the academy
and Evangelical community to discuss the social and political impact of
the evangelical movement's use of media technologies.<br><br>
<b><a name="speakers"></a>Speakers<br>
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<b>Gary Schneeberger</b> is special assistant for media relations to
<a href="http://www.family.org/">Focus on the Family</a> founder and
chairman James Dobson. Schneeberger oversees the internal and external
media efforts of the international evangelical ministry's Government and
Public Policy Division as senior director of the radio program<i> Family
News in Focus</i>, daily email service<i> CitizenLink</i> and
<i>Citizen</i> magazine. <br><br>
<b>Jon Walker</b> is a communications consultant for Rick Warren and
<a href="http://www.purposedrivenlife.com/">Purpose Driven Life</a>
ministries, and has served as pastor of strategic communications for
Saddleback Church and vice president of story for Purpose Driven
Initiatives. He is founding editor of Rick Warren’s Ministry ToolBox and
the principal author for a book on Christian community, <i>Better
Together</i>.<br><br>
<b><a href="http://annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Journalism/WinstonD.aspx">
Diane Winston</a></b> holds the Knight Chair in Media and Religion in the
Annenberg School of Communication at USC. She is the author of <i>Red-Hot
and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army</i> (1999) and
co-editor of <i>Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise of Urban
Commercial Culture</i> (2002). <br><br>
<i>Moderator: </i>The Rev. <b>Amy McCreath</b> is Episcopal chaplain and
coordinator of the <a href="http://web.mit.edu/tac">Technology and
Culture Forum</a> at MIT. <br><br>
[This forum was co-organized by Timothy Stoneman, a postdoctoral fellow
in the MIT Program in Science, Technology, And Society.] <br>
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Brad Seawell, Program Coordinator<br>
MIT Communications Forum<br>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum" eudora="autourl">
http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum</a><br>
14N-430<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
voice 617-253-3521<br>
fax 617-253-6105 <br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
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