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When is a Crisis a Crisis?

Ivan L. Preston Colloquium: Barbie Zelizer

Event Details

Date
Friday, October 24, 2014
Time
3:30-5 p.m.
Location
James L. Hoyt Multimedia Classroom, 2195, Vilas Hall
Description
This talk addresses current rhetoric about what is commonly called the crisis in journalism. It focuses particularly on discussions of new media as a way of underscoring the problems inherent with invoking the idea of crisis to explain the current challenges facing journalism. Barbie Zelizer is the director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication.
Cost
Free

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