Content tagged "politics"
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Posted by Rachel Thompson
Podcast: Roderick Hart, “The Language of Civic Life: Past to Present”
The University of Texas’ Roderick Hart argues that disagreements – endless, raucous disagreements – draw citizens in, or at least enough of them to sustain civic hope.
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Posted by Christina Couch S.M., Science Writing, 2015
Video and Podcast: What’s So Funny About Oppressive Regimes?
Daily Show producer Sara Taksler joins Dr. Amber Day, author of Satire and Dissent: Interventions in Contemporary Political Debate, to discuss the power of free speech.
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Event: Thursday, May 3, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Ordinary Violence and Network Form: On #blacklivesmatter
Scott C. Richmond argues that what is at stake in #blacklivesmatter is a Black political form that is also an emphatically network form, operating below, beyond, and to the side of what can be practiced, grasped at the level of the individual, of intention, and of representation.
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Posted by Christina Couch S.M., Science Writing, 2015
Video and podcast: Republican Resistance in the Age of Trump
Stuart Stevens believes Republicans are in a “GOP apocalypse,” and he’s mobilizing conservatives to stop it.
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Event: Thursday, April 12, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Republican Resistance in the Age of Trump
Stuart Stevens believes Republicans are in a “GOP apocalypse,” and he’s mobilizing conservatives to stop it.
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Posted by Vicky Zeamer S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2018
Podcast: Deen Freelon, “The (Non)Americans: Tracking and Analyzing Russian Influence Operations on Twitter”
Addressing the challenges to analyzing Russian political influence operations.
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Event: Thursday, March 1, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
The (Non)Americans: Tracking and Analyzing Russian Influence Operations on Twitter
University of North Carolina’s Deen Freelon will explain how he and his collaborators are addressing challenges to analyzing Russian political influence operations and present key preliminary findings from their ongoing project focused on this campaign.
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Event: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 - Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Unleashing Alternative Futures: Constructing New Worlds through Imagination, Narrative, and Radical Hope
Learn from the rich ancestry of speculative fiction, exercise collaborative ideation and world-building, and create stories and art that may unleash new futures to topple the hegemonic order.
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Posted by Josh Cowls S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2017
Keywords: Charles Coughlin, communications, Donald Trump, paranoid populism, politics, populism, Twitter, U.S. historyFrom Trump Tower to the White House, in 140 Characters: The Hyper-Mediated Election of a Paranoid Populist President
Trump’s political communications reached a wider audience, on a sturdier basis, than earlier figures who had similarly adopted a “paranoid populist” philosophy.
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Posted by Raleigh McElvery S.M., Science Writing, 2017
Keywords: cannabis, health, law, marijuana, politicsTrial and Error: Medical Marijuana, the Absence of Evidence, and the Allure of Anecdote
Patients, caregivers, scientists, physicians, pharmaceutical companies, and dispensary growers alike are calling for changes to government policies that restrict research. It’s high time to separate politics from science.
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Posted by Vicky Zeamer and Andrew Whitacre S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2018
Podcast: Michael Lee, “The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump”
Michael J. Lee charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States.
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Event: Thursday, April 27, 2017 @ 5:00 pm
Michael Lee: “The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump”
Michael J. Lee charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States.
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Posted by Nathan Saucier S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2017
Podcast: Charles Musser, “From Stereopticon to Telephone: The Selling of the President in the Gilded Age”
Charles Musser: “19th century media forms set in motion not only a new way of imagining how to market national campaigns and candidates; they also helped to usher in novel forms of mass spectatorship.”
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Event: Thursday, March 16, 2017 @ 5:00 pm
From Stereopticon to Telephone: The Selling of the President in the Gilded Age
Charles Musser: “19th century media forms set in motion not only a new way of imagining how to market national campaigns and candidates; they also helped to usher in novel forms of mass spectatorship.”
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Christina Couch
Video and podcast: “Race and Racism in the 2016 Presidential Election”
Slate’s Jamelle Bouie on how race and ethnicity framed the election and how journalists and content creators can improve coverage of these issues moving forward.