Kurt Braddock was interviewed by the Military Times to discuss the threats posed by disinformation and extremism, particularly with respect to how active military members are targeted. Kurt's comments were specifically related to how there is not a mechanism by which young people in the military can learn to differentiate disinformation from true information.
Margot Susca and SOC PhD alum Atika Alkhallouf published an article this month in the peer-reviewed NCA journal Critical Studies in Media Communication titled “'Presented as originally created': how Disney profits off racist content from the past on its streaming platform of the future." The paper examines Disney+ to further explore one conglomerate-owned streaming service and shows, through an analysis of corporate records and trade publications using a political economy lens informed by Orientalism, how Disney+ positions itself as the future of media yet relies on “classic” content to fill consumer demand.
Margot also went on comedian Adam Conover's Factually! podcast and YouTube show this month for a segment titled "How Capitalism Murdered Journalism with Margot Susca."
Aram Sinnreich and his co-author Jesse Gilbert were interviewed about their new book The Secret Life of Data for the Bridging the Gap podcast. In addition, they also hosted an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit about our their new book.
Aram also wrote a piece on Shepherd about the best books about data.
Aram was a panelist in a webinar called "Local Data Sovereignty: Cultivating Marginalized Access Towards Technological Stewardship” hosted by the International Environment Forum.
Aram spoke on a panel about local & indigenous data sovereignty for the IF20.
Finally, Aram was interviewed on Sinclair TV’s National Desk about the TikTok deal rejected by the White House in 2022:
Filippo Trevisan was interviewed by Canadian TV news CHCH about the surprise election called by British PM Rishi Sunak for July and the campaign ahead.
Benjamin Stokes gave a high-profile talk at the AAM (American Alliance of Museums) on “Remembering in a Gentrifying City: Innovations in Community Collaboration” with Samir Meghelli of the Smithsonian and Michele Casto of the DC Public Library/People’s Archive. The talk previewed some of the findings from a book they are currently writing about their “community storytelling system” that involved payphones in the museum and at the front desk of DC public libraries.
Patricia Aufderheide gave a lecture at the Korea National University of the Arts, "Using Archival Sources in Documentary Film," on May 29, 2024.
Patricia also provided a workshop, with co-researcher Changmin Lee, to the student union of Korea National University of the Arts' film program.
She also contributed an article to Gwangju News, a monthly magazine based in the Korean regional city of Gwangju, site of one of Korea's most famous pro-democracy protests, which ended in a brutal military-led massacre in May 1980. Gwangju's International Center had hosted a visit there for her.
Bill Gentile announced the winner of the 2024 AU/Pulitzer Center International Reporting Fellowship. A student in his Spring 2024 Foreign Correspondence class, Audrey Hill will travel to Italy where she plans to report on femicide in that country.
Gentile was instrumental in forging the 2014 relationship between AU’s SOC and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. He continues to oversee that relationship. Made possible by the generous support of American University's School of Communication (SOC), the AU/Pulitzer Center Fellowship this year celebrates its 10th anniversary assisting students who aspire to work as communicators in foreign countries.
