Civic and Media Literacy in a Networked Age

In a media- and information-saturated environment, where everyone is a consumer and a creator, we need to learn -- and teach -- updated skills. For the people who were once only consumers, a variety of modern literacies are crucial to know what (and whom) we can trust. Media creators, too, will need to grasp some key principles that add up to being honorable. At stake is whether self-governing societies will have the information they need.

Speaker Dan Gillmor is an American technology writer and columnist. He is director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Gillmor is also the author of a popular weblog covering technology news and the Northern California technology business sector, criticizing rigid enforcement of copyrights, and commenting on politics from a liberal perspective. http://dangillmor.com/about

Time:   2012-05-16    19:00 - 21:00

Venue:  Public Affairs Section Office, 3rd Floor Garden Hotel (花园酒店三楼美国领事馆文化处多功能会议室)

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