Disney’s veneer of innocence shouldn’t distract people from recognizing the danger of giving one conglomerate the power to control so much information.
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The FCC has made it even easier for broadcast media conglomerates to focus on making money. The public – who own the airwaves those companies depend on – will suffer as a result.
School can always be stressful, but starting high school for the first time comes with its own fears and anxieties. Here’s some simple advice for parents to help their freshmen navigate the new year.
American citizens have long favored government openness over secrecy. But with heightened anti-leak and anti-press rhetoric, do some now want strengthened government control of information?
In 1958, Mildred and Richard Loving were arrested in Virginia for the crime of being married. The couple helped spark an effort to strike down laws against interracial marriage in the United States.
Readers read, viewers watch and players do. That level of engagement gives games real power to influence people both within and outside the play itself.
President is not the most important leadership role in Iran. The election is not completely democratic. That said, there’s a pretty competitive contest happening.
A bill before congress would create a science laureate position akin to the poet laureate for poetry. But some science stars are already essentially doing the job now.
This week’s news brings an important “ah hah” moment. The conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries and their political network of donors and opaque outside groups are…
Early in The Theory of Everything, the student Stephen Hawking strides across the grounds at Cambridge University in the 1960s, his face dreamy. He is lost in thought about the nature of time. Then he…
Interstellar’s protagonists spend a significant portion of the movie’s 169-minute running time giving mini-lectures – sometimes with props and a little whiteboard – on theoretical physics. The characters…
More then ever, we are awash in information. With the advent of the internet, search engines and now more than two billion people wired users globally, information “has become the modern era’s defining…
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, American University School of Communication
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Journalist in Residence, American University School of Communication
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Executive Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact, Assistant Professor, American University School of Communication
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Professor, School of Communication; Executive Editor, Investigative Reporting Workshop, American University School of Communication
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Professor of Film and Media Arts, American University School of Communication
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Faculty Fellow, Internet Governance Lab, American University School of Communication
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Assistant Professor, American University School of Communication
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Associate Professor, American University School of Communication
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Assistant Professor of Public Communications, American University School of Communication
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Assistant Professor of Public Communication, American University School of Communication
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Professor and Interim Dean, American University School of Communication
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Assistant Professor, American University School of Communication
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Professor Emeritus of Communication, American University School of Communication
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Associate Professor, American University School of Communication
