Conference Program

Opening

8:30 am Morning Coffee

9:00 am Welcome by Michael X. Delli Carpini, Dean, Annenberg School &

Introductory Remarks by Barbie Zelizer, Director of the Scholars Program

Tabloidization

9:30 - 11:00 am

  • Herbert Gans “Can Popularization Help the News Media?”
  • Carolyn Kitch “Tears and Trauma in the News”
  • S. Elizabeth Bird “Tabloidization: What Is It, and Does It Really Matter?”
  • Michael Serazio, Moderator, Ph.D. candidate, Annenberg School

Break

11:00 - 11:15 am Coffee break

Technology

11:15 am - 1:00 pm

  • Pablo Boczkowski “Information Transparency: Materiality and Mimicry in the Journalistic Field and Beyond”
  • Julianne Newton “Journalism in the Time of the New Mind”
  • Mark Deuze “Technology and the Individual Journalist: Agency Beyond Imitation and Change”
  • Lokman Tsui, Moderator, Ph.D. candidate, Annenberg School

Break

1:00 - 2:30 pm Lunch break

Truthiness

2:30 - 4:00 pm

  • Michael Schudson “Two Cheers for Positivism: Factual Knowledge in the Age of Truthiness”
  • James Ettema “The Moment of Truthiness”
  • Jeffrey Jones “Believable Fictions and the Will to Truthiness”
  • Keren Tenenboim, Moderator, Ph.D. candidate, Annenberg School

Break

4:00 - 4:15 pm Break

Respondents

4:15 - 5:15 pm

  • Peter Dahlgren, Visiting Scholar Fall 07, Scholars Program in Culture and Communication
  • Carlin Romano, Critic, Philadelphia Inquirer and Chronicle of Higher Education, Lecturer, Annenberg School

Ending

5:15 - 6:30 pm Reception

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