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Spring 2021
Feb. 11 - Madhavi Mallapragada
Associate Professor, UT Austin Radio-Television-Film
3:30–4:45 pm CST
"Diversity Narratives in Media Industries"
Feb. 25 - Iris Chyi
Associate Professor, UT Austin School of Journalism & Media
3:30–4:45 pm CST
"(Perhaps) the Final Verdict on U.S. Newspapers’ Paywall Experiment: The Impact of COVID-19
Mar. 4 - Youjeong Oh
Associate Professor, UT Austin Asian Studies
3:30–4:45 pm CST
"Instagrammable Places: Aesthetic Representation and Contested Urban Transformation"
Mar. 11 - Peter Kunze
Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University
3:30–4:45 pm CST
"Failure Analysis as Industry Study; or, How Do You Solve a Problem like Mulan?"
Apr. 22 - Swapnil Rai
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
3:30–4:45 pm CST
"Star power, Cinephilia and Cultural Diplomacy: Unpacking the affective, industrial, and technological contours of Bollywood's inroads into China"
Professor, Department of Media and Information, Michigan State University
Oct. 16, 2020– Jingrong Tong
Senior Lecturer in Digital News Cultures at the University of Sheffield
Oct. 8, 2020 - Kyle Barnett
Associate Professor of Media Studies, Department of Communication at Bellarmine University.
Sept. 21, 2020 - Irene Wu
Georgetown University and Federal Communications Commission
Sept. 17, 2020 - Lee Rainie
Director of Internet and Technology research at the Pew Research Center
Feb 27, 2020 - Susan Murray
New York University
Nov. 14, 2019 - Eszter Hargittai
Sept. 26, 2019 - Joshua Gleich
Mar. 29, 2019 - Teresa Correa
Associate Professor, School of Communication, Diego Portales University, Chile
Feb 20, 2019 - Aymar Jean Christian
Northwestern University
Jan. 31, 2019 - Terry Flew
Creative Industries Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Nov. 15, 2018 - Hector Amaya
Professor, Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia
Oct. 25, 2018 - Miranda Banks
Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts & Media Arts, Emerson University
Aug. 30, 2018 - Amelia Arsenault
Senior Advisor, Research and Evaluation, U.S. Department of State and Assistant Professor, Georgia State University
Apr. 12, 2018 - David J. Firestein
Founding Executive Director, China Public Policy Center; Clinical Professor of Public Affairs
Mar. 29, 2018 - Dal Yong Jin
Professor in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University
Mar. 6, 2018 - danah boyd
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research; Founder, Data & Society; Visiting Professor, New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program
Co-sponsored with Media Ethics Initiative
Feb. 22, 2018 - Lu Yi
PhD '16, The University of Texas at Austin
Feb. 15, 2018 - Amanda D. Lotz
Professor of Communication Studies and Screen Arts and Cultures, University of Michigan
Jan. 25, 2018 - Tom Schatz
Professor, UT Dept of Radio-TV-FIlm