PHIL 201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Media Activism

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 201
• Professor: C. Kenneth Waters

Document Summary

Title of the talk: the rise of the misinformation society. The name of the presenter: victor pickard, ph. d. is an associate professor at the university of pennsylvania"s annenberg. The institutional affiliation of the presenter: department of communication, media & film. The unit sponsoring the talk: connections: the cmf speaker series. Room: st 147: description of the research presentation. Dr. pickard"s research focuses on the history and political economy of media institutions, media activism, and the politics of media policy. Based on his research he claims that american journalism is in crisis because advertising dependent business model is broken, fewer revenues fewer journalists, newspaper agencies are closing declaring bankruptcy and decline in newspaper ads revenue. There is decline in employees at daily newspapers because of digital outlets which is a huge social problem. In q&a session 6 questions were asked circling the topic of the political economy of digital journalism.