A University of Colorado Boulder symposium Feb. 27-29 will examine how the revolution in digital media is changing global politics, journalism and the way history is preserved.
Journalism and Mass Communication at CU-Boulder is sponsoring 鈥淭he Content and Context of Digital Culture鈥� symposium, which is free and open to the public. It will be held at various sites across campus and a complete schedule is available at .
鈥淭his symposium provides the CU community with an excellent opportunity to explore new political and cultural terrain opened up by digital media,鈥� said symposium organizer Andrew Calabrese, a professor of journalism and mass communication.
Among the speakers will be Columbia University Professor Todd Gitlin, who will present 鈥淎rab Spring and Occupy Wall Street: Why 2011 Was Not 1968鈥� on Feb. 27 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in room 150 of the Eaton Humanities Building. Gitlin鈥檚 upcoming e-book, 鈥淥ccupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street,鈥� looks at how that movement differs from the uprisings of previous eras.
Mark Briggs, who coined the term 鈥淛ournalism 2.0,鈥� will talk about a new breed of 鈥榡ournopreneurs鈥� who are launching startups that break from traditional advertising models to find new sources of revenue for delivering news and information. Briggs is the director of digital media for KING-5 TV in Seattle and the Ford Fellow in Entrepreneurial Journalism at the Poynter Institute. His session is on Feb. 29 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in room 150 of the Eaton Humanities Building.
Experts at the conference also will discuss new ways of archiving digital records and how these collections are being used in places such as libraries and museums. Librarians and archivists are looking for new ways to preserve such records, according to symposium organizers.
The symposium runs in conjunction with an effort to create a new interdisciplinary school or college at CU-Boulder that may include studies in communication, technology, multimedia storytelling, commercial design and the digital arts and humanities. The effort is called the Information, Communication, Journalism, Media and Technology, or ICJMT, initiative.
Journalism and Mass Communication is sponsoring the symposium in support of the ICJMT initiative, with additional support from CU鈥檚 Keller Center for the Study of the First Amendment, the Department of Political Science, the English department, the Film Studies Program, the Center for the Humanities and the Arts, CU Libraries and the Advertising A2B certificate program.
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Contact:
Andrew Calabrese, 303-492-5374
andrew.calabrese@colorado.edu
Elizabeth Lock, CU media relations, 303-492-3117
elizabeth.lock@colorado.edu
