[Sci-tech-public] COMMUNICATIONS FORUM: Evangelicals and the Media, Thursday, April 5, 5-7 pm, in 3-270

[Debbie Meinbresse]

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>MIT COMMUNICATONS FORUM
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>evangelicals and the media
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>Thursday, April 5
>5-7 pm
><http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=3&Buildings=go>3-270
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>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.
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>Speakers
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>Gary Schneeberger is special assistant for media relations to 
><http://www.family.org/>Focus on the Family 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 
>Family News in Focus, daily email service CitizenLink and Citizen magazine.
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>Jon Walker is a communications consultant for Rick Warren and 
><http://www.purposedrivenlife.com/>Purpose Driven Life 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, Better Together.
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><http://annenberg.usc.edu/Faculty/Journalism/WinstonD.aspx>Diane 
>Winston holds the Knight Chair in Media and Religion in the 
>Annenberg School of Communication at USC. She is the author of 
>Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army 
>(1999) and co-editor of Faith in the Market: Religion and the Rise 
>of Urban Commercial Culture (2002).
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>Moderator: The Rev. Amy McCreath is Episcopal chaplain and 
>coordinator of the <http://web.mit.edu/tac>Technology and Culture 
>Forum at MIT.
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>[This forum was co-organized by Timothy Stoneman, a postdoctoral 
>fellow in the MIT Program in Science, Technology, And Society.]
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>Brad Seawell, Program Coordinator
>MIT Communications Forum
>http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum
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>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>Cambridge, MA 02139
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Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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