The Union for Democratic Communications conference, hosted by MIC Center, a collab. btw. Rutgers School of Communication and Information & Annenberg School, to run Oct. 12-15 in #Philly with Todd Wolfson, jack bratich, Deepa Kumar, Bahareh Badiei & Marisa Holmes: ow.ly/kf8Y50PU0Rt #RUSCIproud #udc2023

Learned a lot about “news mirages” and “churnalism” that exist in places where local newsrooms have been gutted. One news source masquerading as separate “local”news sources #UDC2023 Annenberg School MIC Center

A Penn State Bellisario College academic dream team! Sydney L Forde Yasemin Beykont and Matthew P McAllister presenting their work on #CRTC simultaneous substitution policy for Super Bowl ads! PSU Bellisario COMM Grad Ed #udc2023

.⁦Mart⁩ channeling the great Dan Schiller at #udc2023

Flowers of Buffalo uses an “inter-generational lattice” approach to weave land-use policy discussion and action with local participatory journalism and community beautification initiatives. Nice! @udc2023 Annenberg School MIC Center @WeaveNews

#RightHereRightNow Esteemed winner of the Genius grant award & author of #AlgorithmsOfOppression, @SafiyaNoble (who directs @C2i2_UCLA/@UCLA_CR_DJ & Minderoo Foundation) in conversation w/ Christina Ceisel of Cal State Fullerton in the #Keynote plenary of the #UDC2023 #LeftUndone conference at Annenberg School

So proud of our team!!!

It was really enlightening to listen to this panel reflecting on media, war, and terror by @bilgeyesil1 @NadjeAlAli W Osman Paula Chakravartty and Deepa Kumar at @udc2023 this week! #udc2023

Just chatted w/ Susan Cole, the House Reading Clerk who has become a viral sensation amid speakership chaos. She is aware of her celebrity through her daughters, though told me she doesn’t “do social media” But she’s a bit bewildered by her fame. “I’m just Susan!” she told me

For those of us whose intellectual toil is in the field of media political economy - this man was one of the greats. @udc2023 International Communication Association IAMCR AEJMC beawebtweets UC School of Public and International Affairs UC Journalism Democratic Communiqué AEJMC Cultural and Critical Studies

Conference CFP of interest: go.iu.edu/blockbusters

Big news, film fans! The great and good david ehrlich will be the opening keynote for our Blockbuster Futures conference AND (per many requests) we extended the deadline to June 1st to accommodate for the end of the semester slog. Info: go.iu.edu/6AJH

Call for Submissions to a Special Issue of Democratic Communiqué: Freedom of Expression, Campus Politics, Academic Freedom, and the War on Gaza Film details at: democraticcomm.org/journal

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Today's the day! Get those submissions in for UDC 2025 - The Future We Want: Resistance and Resolve democraticcomm.org

Conference program is live! Check it out at democraticcomm.org (where you can also register if you still need to!)

Looking for updates and conversation from this year’s UDC 2025 conference (honestly, can’t blame you, it’s day 1 and it’s already a banger)? It’s all happening on BlueSky! bsky.app/profile/uniond…

CFP Revised and Call Extended for DC Special Issue on Labor and Unionization!!