IAP: "Good Morning and Good Luck: The Obama Administration and the Media"

http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-9120.html

Ellen Hume, Center for Future Civic Media Research Director, will run an Independent Activities Period class open to members of the MIT community.

Good Morning and Good Luck: The Obama Administration and the Media
Ellen Hume Research Director, C4FCM and former political reporter, WSJ
Thu Jan 29, 02-04:00pm, E15-283a

No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 29-Jan-2009
Single session event

• What role will the news media play in the Obama Administration?
• What are the new ways the national agenda is being shaped by people using civic media tools (twitter, facebook, community radio, etc.)?
• What is gained and what is lost in a post-journalism world?

Web: http://civic.mit.edu
Contact: Ellen Hume, E15-120K, (617) 324-4316, ehume@media.mit.edu
Sponsor: Center for Future Civic Media