Monthly Archives: August 2017

Professor Margo Berman will be a guest speaker on an upcoming radio show, Topical Currents, on Tuesday, August 29th, from 1-2 p.m. (EST). It's on WLRN public radio (91.3 FM). During this episode, Pervasive Persuasion. She will discuss the influencers that impact consumers' buying decisions from brands and celebrities to bloggers and YouTube celebs. You can listen in at www.WLRN.org during [...]

Seventeen standout journalism change agents will attend the Online News Association 2017 conference to share insights and learn from others. Robert “Ted” Gutsche: Assistant Professor, Florida International University Gutsche teaches critical and cultural interpretations of the news and strive to help students and reporters explore better ways of producing storytelling through community based journalism. “Journalism [...]

Combining perspectives from media studies and political ecology, this book analyses socially constructed news regarding three environmental conflicts in South America. In recent decades, South American political administrations have tied national economies to neo-extractive development strategies, creating not only vulnerabilities to global commodity boom and bust pricing cycles, but also to conflict regarding environmental and [...]