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Series
Events
Rupe Conference
on Media Ownership: Research and Regulation
Fall
2004 Speaker Series:
October
18: Media Ownership and Regulation
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Patricia
Aufderheide, Professor in the School
of Communication, and Director of the Center for Social
Media, American University: “Feeds, Funnels,
Filters and Us: The Public's Interest in the Media
Environment”
November
3: Media Ownership and Legal Issues
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Stanton
“Larry” Stein, Senior Partner
of Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan LLP: "Media
Concentration and the Entertainment Industry
November
17: Media Ownership and Copyright
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Mark
Rose, Associate Vice Chancellor: “Authors
and Owners: The Invention of Copyright”
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William
Warner, Professor of English, Director
of the University of California Digital Cultures Project,
UCSB: “Networking versus Broadcasting: An Historical
Perspective on the Copyright Wars”
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Sarah
Pritchard, University Librarian, UCSB:
“Copyright and Access to Information in the
University”
Winter 2005 Speaker Series:
February 13, 3:00-5:00 p.m., Corwin Pavilion, UCSB
- Robert
McChesney: "Media and Politics in
the United States Today.” He is Research Professor
in the Institute of Communications Research and the
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
His work concentrates on the history and political
economy of communication, emphasizing the role media
play in democratic and capitalist societies. He has
published 10 books, over 125 journal articles and
book chapters, over 150 newspaper/magazine articles/book
reviews, over 420 conference presentations, and 600
radio and TV appearances.
March
3, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Flying A Studio, UCen, UCSB
- Jennifer
Holt: “New Paradigms in Global
Entertainment Economics; Or, the Companies that Ate
Hollywood.” Jennifer Holt (PhD, UCLA) is a visiting
Assistant Professor at the University of Southern
California in the School of Cinema-Television and
has also taught at UCLA and UC-Santa Barbara. She
is a media historian specializing in the political
economy and industrial history of American film and
television. Her current research looks at the effects
of deregulation and current policy on the industrial
structure and entertainment products of today’s
global media conglomerates. She is finishing a book
entitled In Deregulation We Trust: The Business
of Entertainment in the New Hollywood.
Spring
2005 Speaker Series:
Saturday May 7, 3:00-5:00 p.m.,
Lobero Theater, downtown Santa Barbara
Tickets are $10 ($5 for UCSB students) available at
the UCSB Ticket Office (http://www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/tickets.asp;
805-893-3535) or the Lobero Theater (33 E. Canon Perdido
St, Santa Barbara, 93101, 805-963-0761).
- "Media
Concentration/Media Bias: The State of Newsgathering
Today.” A panel moderated by Ann
Louise Bardach, and
Virginia Postrel, former editor of Reason
magazine. Lionel
Barber, US Managing Editor, Financial
Times; Bill
Keller, Executive Editor, New York Times;
Jacob
Weisberg, Editor, Slate. This panel is
both a part of the Center’s Media Ownership
Series, and the inaugural event of the Media Project,
a Center program directed by Ann
Louise Bardach.
Freshman
Seminars:
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Winter term: Constance Penley, Professor of Film and Media Studies,
Co-Director of the Center.
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Spring term: Ronald E. Rice, Rupe Professor of Communication,
Co-Director of the Center.
Both
1-credit seminars offer a small group of freshman students
an opportunity to read about and discuss media ownership
issues, attend that term’s speaker series, meet
the speakers, and analyze and discuss the presenters’
arguments.
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