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Cyberspace and Civic Space: The Social Impact of the Internet

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Format: Panel Discussion
Length: 70 minutes





The eighth annual Mass Humanities fall symposium explores the political, social, and cultural impacts of the Internet on democracy.

The day's second group of panelists—Kate Crawford, associate professor in the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales; Virginia Heffernan, opinion page columnist at the New York Times; and Siva Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies at the University of Virginia—discusses the social impact of the Internet. Cullen Murphy, editor-at-large at Vanity Fair, serves as the panel's moderator. Lois Brown, the Elizabeth Small Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College and a Mass Humanities board member, provides the session introduction.

Presenter(s): Lois Brown, Cullen Murphy, Kate Crawford, Virginia Heffernan, Siva Vaidhyanathan

Date: November 19, 2011

Location: Robsham Theater

Sponsor(s): Mass Foundation for the Humanities; Boston College

URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/masshumancivilcyber2/

The information on this page is accurate as of November 2011