Dear all,
A final reminder - do join us:
CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF GLOBAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY
Invites you to a lecture by
Professor Michael Schudson, Columbia University.
Expectations of Openness: From Cold War to a 'Right to Know' in U.S. Politics, Media, and Culture
January 13th 2016
12-1.30, Professor Stuart Hall Building, LG02
In an age of Edward Snowden, it may seem odd to argue that there are greater expectations of openness in democracies than ever before, but that is the case. Government agencies, laws, civil society guardians of openness, practices of disclosure in health care, advertising, food packaging and labeling, all reinforce ideals of transparency as never before.
In the U.S. case, the focal point of this lecture, little of this goes back to the early days of the Republic, but almost all of it precedes the Internet. The U.S. Freedom of Information Act (1966) grew out of 1950s struggles inside government related to the Cold War and other advances in openness owe much to the rise of a new generation of political leadership coming to power some years before mass demonstrations and the cultural revolution of the late 1960s. This history should help us rethink the role of transparency -- and its limits -- today.
Michael Schudson is Professor of Journalism and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, he is the author of seven books and co-editor of three others. His works include Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers (1978), Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press (2008), The Sociology of News (2011) and The Rise of the Right to Know (2015).
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