Media

Atomic Media and Culture

Examines the relationship between the atomic bomb and various aspects of American media and culture during the 1950s and early ’60s. Topics include “atomic scare” propaganda films, the civil-defense ethos, atomic-age art and design, the fallout-shelter craze, and emergency communications media.

News 2.0 Workshop
Feb 10, 2007

News 2.0 Workshop

Newspaper 2.0 was a one-day workshop to explore challenges and opportunities in the new Internet-enabled newspaper marketplace. The workshop brought together journalists, scholars and leading thinkers who shared a common interest in the future of daily and weekly journals — with a particular interest in Santa Barbara as a region where new approaches might be explored.

Tags: Dan Gillmor, Doc Searls, J.D. Lasica, Media, news, Newspaper 2.0
Console-ing Passions Conference on television, audio, video, new media, and feminism
Apr 24, 2008

Console-ing Passions Conference on television, audio, video, new media, and feminism

Console-ing Passions was founded in 1989 by a group of feminist media scholars and artists looking to create a space to present work and foster scholarship in issues of television, electronic media, culture, and identity, with an emphasis on gender and sexuality.

Tags: Culture, Feminism, Gender, Globalization, Identity, Media, National identity, Post-colonialism, Television