Networked news, racial divides – how power and privilege shape public discourse

The Business and Practice of Journalism Seminars

Wednesday 15 May 2019   14:00 to 15:30

Speakers:

Sue Robinson, Helen Firstbook Franklin Professor of Journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Location:

EP Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College

Join the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism for their third Business and Practice of Journalism seminar in Trinity 2019.

This event is free and open to the public – there is no need to register.

Sue Robinson is the Helen Firstbook Franklin Professor of Journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She joined the University in 2007 after more than a decade working as a journalist.

Her recent book, Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power & Privilege Shape Public Disclosure in Progressive Communities, researched how digital platforms enable and constrain citizens – especially those in marginalized communities – who produce and share information in the public sphere about racial achievement disparities in the K-12 education system.

For more information, please contact reuters.institute@politics.ox.ac.uk.

Location
EP Abraham Lecture Theatre
Green Templeton College
43 Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6HG

Type: Lectures and Seminars, Reuters Institute