News from the Annenberg School for Communication
June 26, 2013
In this issue:
Prestigious honor for doctoral student Sandra Ristovska
Prof. Zelizer delivers lecture at University of Leeds
Prof. Kraidy lectures at University College in Dublin
Sandra Ristovska receives prestigious award from IAMCR
Congratulations to doctoral student Sandra Ristovska, who has received the Herbert Schiller Prize for the best paper at the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) conference in Dublin, Ireland.
The awards committee said the paper – Strategic Witnessing in an Age of Video Activism – “offers an excellent analysis of a subject that is of crucial empirical and theoretical significance to the field of media and communication research. In a time of turbulent political and economic crisis around the world, media and communication scholars have important opportunities, and even vital duties, to study and explain the activities of people who struggle and risk their lives in pursuit of social justice. Sandra Ristovska’s paper is a well-organized, clearly written and detailed case study of one organization and its role in supporting film/video activists who share with the world documented evidence of social injustices they have witnessed with their cameras.”
The Herbert Schiller prize was established at IAMCR's Singapore Conference in 2000 to celebrate Schiller's lasting contribution to media/communications scholarship and to remember his work in helping to establish IAMCR as an open, hospitable and vital space of debate, as one of the Vice Presidents of the Association. The award is offered every two years to students or young scholars for a paper which combines scholarly excellence with a commitment to developing and extending the critical, innovative and engaged spirit that characterized Schiller’s contribution to media/communications analysis.
Annenberg Presentations at IAMCR
The Annenberg School for Communication again has a strong showing at the International Association for Media and Communication Research conference. A timetable of presentations can be found here.
Prof. Zelizer delivers public lecture at University of Leeds
Prof. Barbie Zelizer delivered a public Lecture on the future of Journalism at the University of Leeds.
Prof. Kraidy presents his research at University College
Prof. Marwan M. Kraidy will present his research “Puppets Against Tyrants: Digital Dissent and Political Rhetoric in the Syrian Uprising” at the British Society for Middle East Studies (BRISMES) conference in Dublin, Ireland.
SummerCulture brings Annenberg students to Dublin
Prof. Barbie Zelizer will be leading a group of Annenberg doctoral students on the 2013 SummerCulture trip to Dublin, Ireland (July 1-14) which will be hosted by former Annenberg Visiting Scholar Aphra Kerr, NUI Maynooth. Attendees on this year’s trip include Aaron Shapiro, David Conrad, Emily LaDue, Felicity Duncan, Nicholas Gilewicz, Sun-Ha Hong, Yoel Roth, Prof. Marwan M. Kraidy, and the Scholars Program Coordinator Emily Plowman.
SummerCulture will critically explore how our understanding of culture generally, and the production of cultural products and services more specifically, has changed over time and the influence of globalization and place on this process. There will be three broad themes:
- HISTORY – colonialism, emigration, religion, language , memory
- PLACES, FLOWS and BORDERS - territorialisation and re-territorialisation of cultural products, services and people , translation, localisation, nomadic/mobile workers, transnational online communities, creative cities
- DOMINANT & ALTERNATIVE MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS – constructing, mediating and negotiating identities, diversity, difference, multiculturalism, hybridity, visibility, omission
Omar Al-Ghazzi presents at University of Westminster conference.
Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer for a story about good use of social media.
FactCheck.org is cited in stories in The Nation and New England Public Radio.
The National Annenberg Election Survey is referenced in a New York Times story about the Voting Rights Act.
Note: Annenberg In Touch will be on a bi-weekly schedule for the Summer.
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