Public Lecture by Pulitzer Prizewinner Eric Freedman
12/07/2011 - 14:00 - 14:00
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Pulitzer Prizewinner Eric Freedman, Michigan State University, will deliver
a public lecture entitled "Social Media and New Media as Tools for
Political Communication: From Samizdat to the Arab Spring". The lecture
will be held in the TU Institute of Communication (Tartu Rd 13) on
Wednesday, December 7 at 10:00.Changing media technologies have always
facilitated increased social and political activism. However, those
changing technologies may also put communicators and activists at risk from
authoritarian regimes. That was the experience for the underground press --
the dissident publishers and distributors of samizdat -- during the
Soviet era, and it is the experience of bloggers, webmasters and 鈥渃itizen
journalists鈥 in a number of repressive countries today, including Iran,
China and the former Soviet republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Yet
the experience of successful grassroots uprisings during the Arab Spring in
Egypt and Tunisia highlights the potential of new media to force
change.Eric Freedman is Associate Professor of Journalism at Michigan State
University and the Director of Capital News Service. Freedman's research
interests include press rights and journalistic practices in Central Asia
and media coverage of international environmental issues. His newspaper and
magazine articles have taken readers from a Great Silk Road bazaar to lawn
bowls in Fiji, from the Toronto waterfront to a crumbling castle in the
Spanish Pyrenees, from the dying Aral Sea to London's Fleet Street, and
beyond. He is the author or coauthor of seven books, including "African
Americans in Congress: A Documentary History". This autumn Eric Freedman is
teaching in Lithuania with the Fulbright scholarship. His visit to Estonia
is supported by the Embassy of the United States of America.
For further information, please contact:P盲ivi TirkkonenPhone: +372 683
0078Email: paivi.tirkkonen@tlu.ee
a public lecture entitled "Social Media and New Media as Tools for
Political Communication: From Samizdat to the Arab Spring". The lecture
will be held in the TU Institute of Communication (Tartu Rd 13) on
Wednesday, December 7 at 10:00.Changing media technologies have always
facilitated increased social and political activism. However, those
changing technologies may also put communicators and activists at risk from
authoritarian regimes. That was the experience for the underground press --
the dissident publishers and distributors of samizdat -- during the
Soviet era, and it is the experience of bloggers, webmasters and 鈥渃itizen
journalists鈥 in a number of repressive countries today, including Iran,
China and the former Soviet republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Yet
the experience of successful grassroots uprisings during the Arab Spring in
Egypt and Tunisia highlights the potential of new media to force
change.Eric Freedman is Associate Professor of Journalism at Michigan State
University and the Director of Capital News Service. Freedman's research
interests include press rights and journalistic practices in Central Asia
and media coverage of international environmental issues. His newspaper and
magazine articles have taken readers from a Great Silk Road bazaar to lawn
bowls in Fiji, from the Toronto waterfront to a crumbling castle in the
Spanish Pyrenees, from the dying Aral Sea to London's Fleet Street, and
beyond. He is the author or coauthor of seven books, including "African
Americans in Congress: A Documentary History". This autumn Eric Freedman is
teaching in Lithuania with the Fulbright scholarship. His visit to Estonia
is supported by the Embassy of the United States of America.
For further information, please contact:P盲ivi TirkkonenPhone: +372 683
0078Email: paivi.tirkkonen@tlu.ee