Annenberg School

The Black Lives Matter movement, the stark inequalities of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ongoing racial resentment of the Trump Era made 2020 a uniquely challenging and uniquely fruitful year for Black media-makers. As Americans seek out more stories about race, and we are reminded over again of the myopic whiteness that has historically excluded Black perspectives from prominent media, Black media-makers, from journalists to comics, have spoken out about the continued roadblocks to covering these issues with compassion and depth.

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About this Conversation

This conversation will address re-imagining connections between academia and activism. Can one be a scholar and an activist at the same time? If so, how? If not, why not? What can contemporary scholar-activists learn from scholars and activists of the past who have tried to balance those two goals/trajectories at the same time?

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About this Conversation

This conversation will address taking race seriously in contemporary content distribution. What are the challenges of marketing black content? What difference does gender/sexuality make to filmmakers trying to reach audiences? Is there a difference in such discussions between film, TV, and online venues?

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About the Conversation

This conversation will address technology and the reproduction of racial inequity. How does “big data” reinforce social disparities? Can artificial intelligence be mobilized towards social justice and positive social change? In what ways are new technologies gendered, racialized, and classed?

This event will be held on Zoom. Join here: www.asc.upenn.edu/conversations

This event will be held on Zoom. Join here: www.asc.upenn.edu/conversations

About the Conversation

Our inaugural Annenberg Conversation event will feature Annenberg Presidential Associate Professor Sarah J. Jackson in conversation with Benjamin Todd Jealous, President of People for the American Way. Together, they will explore race, social justice, and social media.

Sarah J. Jackson joins the MIC Center! Join all three MIC co-directors — Sarah J. Jackson, Victor Pickard, and Todd Wolfson — for a lively discussion about the Center's projects for the exciting year ahead and how Jackson’s work will integrate into and enhance MIC's research mission.

Register for the event at https://upenn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gJTScnq5QEmDlDwBPNUPRw.

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This event will be held virtually via Zoom: http://www.asc.upenn.edu/ascmediariskevents. The meeting will go live at 5pm, and participants will be muted on entry. Questions for the Q&A portion should be submitted through the chat function.