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
Spring 2010
Thursday, Feb. 4
Robert W. McChesney (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
"Journalism is Dead. Long Live Journalism"
12 - 2 p.m., Room 607B, Graduate School of Journalism
Monday, Feb. 8
Erica Robles (New York University)
"Mediating Congregation: The Aesthetics and Technics of an American Megachurch"
12 - 2 p.m., Room 607B, Graduate School of Journalism
Tuesday, Feb. 23
Amelia Arsenault (Univesrity of Pennsylvania)
"The Convergence of Networks and the Importance of Nodes: Mapping the Global Networks of the Information Industries"
12 - 2 p.m., Room 601B, Graduate School of Journalism
Monday, March 8
Silvio Waisbord (George Washington University)
"Making Civic News: Advocacy Journalism and Collective Mobilization in Latin America"
12 - 2 p.m., Room 607B, Graduate School of Journalism
Monday, April 19
Laura DeNardis (Yale University)
"Technologies of Dissent"
12 - 2 p.m., Room 607B, Graduate School of Journalism
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
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
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)
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