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CJMD Presents a Conversation with Jorge Ramos: Journalism and the U.S. Presidential Election
Join us on October 26 at 9 am PST (10 am Mexico City) for a conversation with Jorge Ramos. The event is free but registration via Eventbrite is required. Those who register will receive a Zoom [...]
Livingston and Bennett Op-Ed on Toxic Communication Appears in Boston Globe
An attendee takes in the scene after the Republican National Convention wrapped in Cleveland, July 21, 2016. The fifth and final volume of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report revealed new details about Russian links [...]
CJMD Co-Directors Matthew Powers and Adrienne Russell release new book: “Rethinking Media Research for Changing Societies”
In Rethinking Media Research for Changing Societies, an edited volume by CJMD Co-Directors Matthew Powers and Adrienne Russell, some of the world’s leading theorists propose what each considers the single most pressing question [...]
#BlackLivesMatter co-founder Opal Tometi and CCCE founder Lance Bennett featured at Seattle conference on tech and democracy
#BlackLivesMatter co-founder Opal Tometi takes questions from an audience at the Seattle Public Library and also participating via video link from Berlin, following her talk on social media and social movements Friday, Oct. 25. [...]
How to Report on the Climate Crisis: Local environmental communicators in discussion at CCCE
Panelists, from left, Kamna Shastri, Eve Andrews, Heidi Roop, Evan Bush. What are the most pressing climate-crisis-related issues facing the Pacific Northwest? That was the kickoff question at the “Communicating Climate Change in [...]
CCCE hosts “Seattle Journalism’s Possible Futures” Panel
Joy Resmovits (Seattle Times), Anika Anand (Evergrey), Jill Jackson (KUOW), Florangela Davila (Crosscut) On April 23rd, CCCE hosted “Seattle Journalism’s Possible Futures,” a panel discussion featuring local journalists steering innovative projects at the crossroads [...]
CCCE PhD Candidate Yunkang Yang’s research highlights evolving media sphere through analysis of Ford/Kavanaugh Hearing
PhD Candidate Yunkang Kang joined colleagues from the University of Canberra, Purdue University, and the University of Texas at the American Political Science Association Conference in Boston for a panel on "Fake News and Trust in [...]
CCCE Director Lance Bennett appointed Senior Fellow at Weizenbaum Institute
Lance Bennett has been appointed Senior Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (the German Internet Institute) in Berlin. He is working with the research group on “Digitalization and the Transnational Public Sphere” [...]
CCCE Director Lance Bennett joins the Advisory Committee of the Social Science Research Council program on Media & Democracy
CCCE Director Lance Bennett has joined the Advisory Committee of the Social Science Research Council program on Media & Democracy. This program seeks to understand the evolving relationship between media, technology, and democratic life. By [...]
Powers and Russell to co-edit Social Media & Society: 2K
CCCE Co-Directors Matt Powers and Adrienne Russell to edit section of journal Social Media & Society entitled 2K. It will offer a space for short essays, and will invite lively and timely conversation around the [...]