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Is everybody still with us . You guys awake . Its my pleasure to introduce our final panel before our keynote, justice inclusion, imagine and building alternative platforms. And so to introduce our guests, i would turn it right over to dr. Lori lopez and well start the panel with that. Thank you. All right. So, for our panel today, we have four wonderful speakers and im going to start by introducing them. So here we have margene christian, professor of Communication Studies at northwestern university, he recently earned tenure there so will very soon have the title of associate professor. Tanya sutherland is assistant professor of archival studies and Computer Sciences at the university of hawaii. New title. Well clap. Applause anyway. Sarah j. Jackson at Northeastern University and in july shell be starting a new position as president of communication at the university of pennsylvanias ananberg school of communication and matthew bui is the fellow at the university of southern califor
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Out of there good morning youre watching our international where its just gone 9 oclock in moscow. Says he called off a strike against iran with just 10 minutes to spare the attack was meant to be in retaliation for to iran downing a u. S. Military surveillance drone over the gulf region strait of hormuz. They came in they said sure were ready to go wed like a decision i said i want to know something before you go how many people will be killed. In this case are aliens they said came back. Approximately 150 and i thought about it for a 2nd i said you know what they shut on and. Drone and here we are busy sitting with 150 dead people and i didnt like it the council strike is the closest the u. S. Has been to a direct confrontation with duran duran said the u. S. Drone it shot down earlier had flown into its space washington says it was operating over International Waters this month the u. S. Also blamed tiran for attacking 2 world tankers in the strait of hormuz around denied those accu