April 14-16, 2016
University of Oregon in Portland, OR
“What is Media? (2016) –– the sixth annual “What is . . . ?” conference-experience –– features a unique coalescing of media scholars, government and community officials, industry professionals, alumni, and students, as well as artists, filmmakers, grassroots community organizations, and the public. With media representing a wider and wider range of concepts, products, services, and institutions, the definition of media continues to be in a state of flux. What is media today? How is media studies defined? How have media technologies transformed media theory and practice? What are the futures of media and how are they evolving? What is Media? coincides with the UO School of Journalism and Communication’s 2016 centennial celebration!”
For a complete schedule of events, see the Preliminary Program
2016 Johnston Lecture:
“Three Reporting Cultures: Designing Humans in and Out of the Future of Journalism”
John Markoff, Senior Journalist for the New York Times
Thursday, April 14 at 5:30 PM
“John Markoff began writing about technology in 1976 and joined The Times in 1988. In 2013 he was part of the team awarded a Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting as part of a New York Times project on labor and automation. In 2007 John became a member of the International Media Council at the World Economic Forum, and he was named a fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists, the organization’s highest honor. He is the author of:Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots (HarperCollins/The Ecco Press, 2015); Waves of Democracy: Social Movements and Political Change (2nd ed., Sage, 2014); and What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture shaped the Personal Computer Industry (Viking Books, 2005). He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Whitman College (1971) and an Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Oregon in 1976.”
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