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#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 [...]
Matt Powers releases new book
CCCE Associate Director Matt Powers releases new book. First in a new Reuters International book series, Powers discusses the way in which NGOs increasingly are taking on journalistic functions, shaping-and sometimes directly producing-international news. How [...]
Symposium: The Shifting Landscape of Public Communication
CCCE, in coordination with the UW Department of Communication and the Simpson Center for the Humanities, hosted a highly successful symposium exploring the “big questions” for scholars concerned with our contemporary media landscape. Entitled “The [...]
UW Sustainability Action Network Gets Green Light
Through a grant awarded by the Campus Sustainability Fund (CSF), an exciting new student-led initiative for a campus wide sustainability action network (UW-SAN) is ready to launch its first year operations. Described as a resource [...]