Communications Colloquium

The doctoral program in communications hosts sessions on both novel and vintage communications scholarship.

The colloquium is open to all interested. If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, contact the student organizer, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, at rkn2103@columbia.edu. All events below are free and open to the public.

Save the Date

Wednesday, Nov. 4
Matthew Hindman (Arizona State University)
"The Elephant and the Butterfly: The Curious Political Economy of Web Traffic"
12 to 2 p.m. in 601B

Tuesday, Nov. 24
Dave Karpf (Brown), Josh Braun (Cornell), and Lokman Tsui (University of
Pennsylvania)
"A Roundtable on technology and Democracy"
4 to 6 p.m. in 607A

Past Events

Fall 2009

Tuesday, Sept. 22
Dominic Pettman (The New School)
"After the Beep - Answering Machines and Creaturely Life"
4 to 6 p.m. in 601C

Thursday, Oct. 15
Victor Pickard (NYU)
"Can Public Policy Save the News? The Uncertain History and Future of Journalism"
12 to 2 p.m. in 601C

Thursday, Oct. 22
Joseph Turow (University of Pennsylvania)
"Digital Media and the Transformation of Consumer Culture"
12 to 2 p.m. in 607A

Spring 2009

Monday, Feb. 16
Daniel Carey (National University of Ireland, Galway)
"The American Way of Death: Reportage on murder from Capote to Gilmore"
12 to 2 p.m. in 607B

Friday, March 27
Thomas Streeter (University of Vermont)
"The Net Effect"
12 to 2 p.m. in 107B

Monday, March 30
W. Russell Neuman (University of Michigan)
"Digital News"
12 to 2 p.m. in 107B

Tuesday, April 14
Lisa Keller (SUNY Purchase)
"Truimph of Order"
12 to 2 p.m. in 601B

Monday, April 27
Saskia Sassen (Columbia University)
"Cultures of use and the constituting of digital power"
12 to 2 p.m. in 107B

Wednesday, May 5
William Grueskin (Columbia University)
"A Conversation about the Future of Journalism Education"
2 to 3:30 p.m. in 601B

Winter 2008

Friday, Dec. 12
The Information Society Project with Jack Balkin (Yale)
Location: Room 801, IAB
Time: 12 - 2 p.m.

Fall 2008

Oct. 3
John Durham Peters (University of Iowa)
"Media, Madness, and the Changing Conditions of Communication"
Location: International Affairs Building, room 801

Nov. 13
Gabriella Coleman (NYU)
"Old and New Net Wars over Free Speech: Freedom and Secrecy or How to Understand the Hacker and Lulz battle against the C0$"

Dec. 2
Roundtable on Introducing the Field of Communications/Media Studies to Graduate Students
Michael Schudson (Columbia), Helga Tawil Souri (NYU), and Shannon Mattern (New School)
Location: Stabile Student Center, Journalism

Spring 2008

Feb. 22
Ben Peters (Columbia)
"Why the Cold War Matters in the Critical Study of Information"

March 7
Paul Starr
"Democratic Theory and the History of Communications"

March 28
Dalton Conley (Sociology, NYU)
"Everywhere"

Fall 2007

Sept. 25, 2007
Olivier Sylvain (Communications, Columbia), ‘Towards a Revisionist Reading of the 1927 Radio Act’

Oct. 9, 2007
Ulises Mejias (SUNY Oswego) & Warren Sack (UC Santa Cruz), moderated by Frank Moretti (Columbia), ‘Network Critique’

Oct. 16, 2007
Keller Easterling (Architecture, Yale), ‘Enduring Innocence’

Nov. 6, 2007
John B. Thompson (Cambridge), ‘Books in the Digital Age’

Nov. 20, 2007
Mattias Hesserus (History, Uppsala)