Please join us for a special public forum hosted by the School of Literature, Media and Communication to discuss the media of politics and the politics of media in the wake of the US presidential election. This gathering will be held during the regularly scheduled Digital Media talks, 3:00-4:00pm on Tuesday, November 15th in the TSRB auditorium. A panel of faculty speakers will open the session by discussing media effects and media futures that can help us make sense of unfolding changes in American politics. Topics of discussion will include Big Data, twitter campaigns, political art, filter bubbles, email hacking, and freedom of press. Afterwards, the floor will be open for a moderated discussion.

Our panelists will include:

Carl DiSalvo, Associate Professor of Digial Media (LMC), Co-Director of DILAC and S-L-S

Janet Murray, Professor of Digital Media (LMC), Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Affairs

Anne Pollock, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, & Society (LMC)

Juan Carlos Rodríguez, Associate Professor of Spanish (ML)

Joycelyn Wilson, Assistant Professor of Education at Virginia Tech and DILAC Fellow

Gregory Zinman, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies (LMC)

Co-organizers: 

Yanni Loukissas, Assistant Professor of Digital Media (LMC)

Laine Nooney, Assistant Professor of Digital Media (LMC)