The Digital Media Revolution and the Middle East

Posted by Peter Luyckx on
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 at 11:14 am

Tonight at 7:30 pm at Town Hall and online at http://www.livestream.com/mcdm:

The second installment of Town Hall’s new series with University of Washington Department of Communication, The Revolution is Here: How Digital Media and Awakened Citizens Are Changing the World, will feature Hanson Hosein, director of UW’s Master of Communication in Digital Media.

Formerly a foreign correspondent for NBC News, Hosein will discuss how people under authoritarian regimes, such as Iran, are using new technologies to communicate, and seizing back some of the concentrated power formerly exerted through a tightly controlled state media. UW Political Scientist Lance Bennett responds to Professor Hosein’s case, and moderates the audience discussion.

Tickets are $5 at the door beginning at 6:30 pm. Downstairs at Town Hall; enter on Seneca Street (directions). Town Hall members receive priority seating. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life, with the University of Washington Department of Communication.

Cross-posted from http://mcdm.washington.edu/news.shtml