[Sci-tech-public] Feb 24, 5-7PM - Online News: Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?

[Amberly Steward]

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MIT Anthropology Presents:

 

Online News: Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?

 

A presentation by

 

Joshua Benton

Nieman Journalism Lab - Harvard University

 

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Pablo Boczkowski

School of Communication - Northwestern University

 

Thursday, February 24

5-7 PM

Rm. 3-270

 

Co-sponsored by Comparative Media Studies Communications Forum

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Abstract


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? 

Speakers


Joshua Benton is director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard
University. Before spending a year at Harvard as a 2008 Nieman Fellow, he
spent 10 years in newspapers, most recently at the Dallas Morning News. 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.


Pablo Boczkowski is a Professor of Communications Studies at Northwestern
University where he leads a research program that studies the transition
from print to digital media. He is the author of Digitizing the News:
Innovation in Online Newspapers (2004) and News at Work: Imitation in an Age
of Information Abundance (2010).

Moderator: Jason Spingarn-Koff is a New York-based documentary filmmaker and
journalist, whose work has appeared on PBS (NOVA, Frontline/World, History
Detectives, LIFE360), the BBC, MSNBC,Time and Wired.

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