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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>==============================================================</span></font></b></span><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-weight:bold'>MIT Anthropology Presents:</span></font></b></span><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Online News: Public Sphere or Echo
Chamber?</span></font></b></span><b><span style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:bold'>A presentation by</span></font></b></span><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=apple-style-span><b><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Joshua Benton</span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Nieman
Journalism Lab – <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=apple-style-span><b><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Pablo Boczkowski</span></font></b></span><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on"><span class=apple-style-span><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>School</span></font></b></span></st1:PlaceType><span
class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-weight:bold'> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Communication</st1:PlaceName></span></b></span></st1:place><span
class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>
– Northwestern University</span></b></span><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Thursday, February 24</span></font></b></span><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:bold'>5-7 PM</span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:bold'>Rm. 3-270</span></font></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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class=apple-style-span><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Co-sponsored by Comparative Media Studies
Communications Forum</span></font></b></span><b><span style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
class=apple-style-span><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>==============================================================</span></font></b></span><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Abstract</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
The digital age has been heralded but also pilloried for its impact on
journalism. As newspapers continue their mutation into digital formats and
as news and information are available from a seeming infinity of websites, what
do we actually know about the dynamics of news-consumption online?
What does the public do with online news? How influential
are traditional news outlets in framing the news we get online? <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Speakers</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Joshua Benton</span></b> is director of
the Nieman Journalism Lab at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.
Before spending a year at Harvard as a 2008 Nieman Fellow, he spent 10
years in newspapers, most recently at the <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Dallas
Morning News</span></i>. He has reported from 10 foreign countries, been a
Pew Fellow in International Journalism, and three times been a finalist for
the Livingston Award for International Reporting.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Pablo Boczkowski</span></b> is a
Professor of Communications Studies at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Northwestern</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
where he leads a research program that studies the transition from print
to digital media. He is the author of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Digitizing
the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers</span></i> (2004) and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information
Abundance</span></i> (2010).<br>
<br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Moderator</span></i>: <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Jason Spingarn-Koff</span></b> is a New
York-based documentary filmmaker and journalist, whose work has appeared
on PBS (NOVA, Frontline/World, History Detectives, LIFE360), the
BBC, MSNBC,<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Time</span></i> and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Wired</span></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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