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Lecture: "The News Media in Puerto Rico: Journalism in Colonial Settings and Times of Crisis"
Presented by Dr. Federico Subervi-Vélez, Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Communication, and Honorary Fellow
Event Details
Date
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Time
3:30 p.m.
Location
336 Ingraham Hall
Description
The presentation will address the current state of the mass media and journalism in Puerto Rico in the midst of the Island’s ongoing economic and political crises; it will bring together three areas of inquiry: political-economic factors that condition the operations of the Island’s mass media; opinions from sixty Puerto Rican journalists; and theoretical and methodological frameworks for future research related to media in colonial/post-colonial settings.
Cost
Free
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