INTERNATIONAL FALLS- Residents of this remote border city are trying to come to grips with the harsh news announced last week that the 110-year-old International Falls Journal newspaper is shutting …
A2K4D Eleventh Annual Workshop: Mobile Technology and Social Transformations - Book Launch Registration Details
Join this virtual session as part of the Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) Eleventh Annual Workshop.
In acknowledgment of The Richard Bartlett Gift, Information Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School and A2K4D will launch the Mobile Technology and Social Transformations: Access to Knowledge in Global Contexts book. This book investigates how the mobile telephone has transformed societies worldwide, bringing both opportunities and challenges. When knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways people create, disseminate, and access knowledge. This book is edited by Stefanie Felsberger and Ramesh Subramanian.
Emily Vraga
Emily Vraga is an associate professor in the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, where she holds the Don and Carole Larson Professorship in Health Communication. Her research tests methods to identify and correct misinformation on social media, to apply news literacy to limit biased information consumption, and to encourage attention to more diverse content online.
The statement reads:
âRecent civil unrest in Minneapolis and St. Paul has drawn national attention to the relationship between media, protestors and law enforcement officials. The Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication is a School dedicated to teaching students and training professionals to be leaders in their fields and to be thoughtful, productive citizens in their communities and in public life. Less than a year ago during social unrest, we stated unequivocally that the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication takes seriously its responsibility to educate the public on the rights and responsibilities protecting press freedoms covered by the First Amendment,â said Elisia Cohen, director of the Hubbard School and professor. âIt is disheartening that even after a court order protecting journalists to ensure their First Amendment right to lawfully cover protests, documentation provided to the U.S. District Court demonstrates that journalists h
In the vast Mountain West, collaboration on radio news finds success
“During the pandemic, we made all of our content free to smaller, community radio stations that don’t have a news budget.”
By Rachel del Valle April 27, 2021, 10:05 a.m.
April 27, 2021, 10:05 a.m.
Last summer, I drove cross country. I found that in parts of the Mountain West Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Montana, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, and Wyoming you can go for miles and miles and pick up just one or two radio stations. (If you’re one of the many people planning a road trip outside a metropolitan area in the next few months, you’ll likely notice this, too.)