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| Global Experiences of Media Reform |
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| Start Date: | 11/8/2011 | Start Time: | 4:30 PM |
| End Date: | 11/8/2011 | |
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Event Description
Bringing together academics and activists whose work focuses on changing media policy and practices in the US, Argentina and Venezuela, this event will highlight the efforts to gain access to communications systems in times of media consolidation and discuss the meaning of a free press in the Americas.
The panel includes the USESCO Chair of Freedom of Expression, Damian Loretti from Argentina. Also Eric Klienberg, a sociologist from NYU and editor of the journal Public Culture; the director of a large community TV station in Caracas who is fighting for media reform under Chavez; April Glaser, an undergraduate student at Temple; and Petri Dish, a founder of Prometheus Radio Project and pirate radio legend around the world. Our moderators are Daniel Denvir, staff writer at the City Paper and Naomi Schiller, professor of anthropology at Temple University. |
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Temple sponsor organization:
This event is possible through support of Temple University’s Departments of Anthropology; Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media; History; Journalism; Philosophy; Sociology; the Honors Program; the Center for Humanities at Temple; The Center for Afro-Jewish Studies; and the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Global Communication Studies. |
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