UPDATED: November 29, 2011. Watch the video of the panel discussion
Please join us on Monday, November 7th at 7:00 p.m. at UBC Robson to hear journalists and researchers at the forefront of the social media revolution discuss the implications for journalism at a time when the profession is trying to reinvent itself.
From the Middle East protests to the Occupy movement to the Vancouver riots, people are sharing their impressions, photos and video on social media. From breaking news on Twitter to recommending a news story on Facebook, social media are becoming ever more ingrained in journalism.
The event at UBC Robson, 800 Robson Street, in downtown Vancouver is free but please register to ensure admission.
Our speakers are:
- Liz Heron is a Social Media Editor at The New York Times, where she taps into social networks for newsgathering, creative distribution and community engagement.
- Alfred Hermida is an Associate Professor at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, a digital media scholar, journalism educator and online news pioneer, who is currently working on a book about social media and journalism.
- Karen Pinchin has worked as a reporter, researcher and editor, in print and online, for Maclean’s, The Canadian Press and Newsweek International. The founding editor of OpenFile Vancouver, Karen is on the vanguard of old media methods used in a Web 2.0 world.
- Steve Pratt, the Director of CBC Radio 3 and CBC Radio Digital Programming, is a regular speaker on the subjects of the future of music, the future of media, training traditional media in using new media, and the power and proper execution of social networking.
The event is presented by the UBC Graduate School of Journalism and by UBC Continuing Studies.
The panel is the first of a series of events on social media. On Monday, November 14th at 7:00 p.m. there is a panel discussion on how social media are changing politics at UBC Robson. The event is free but please register.
On Sunday 20 November, the Laurier Institution presents the Vancouver Human Rights Lecture with guest speaker Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT. The talk, Cute Cats and the Arab Spring: When Social Media Meet Social Change, is free but please register to guarantee a spot.
In this second annual Vancouver Human Rights Lecture, Zuckerman looks at “the cute cat theory” of internet activism, as it helps explain the Arab Spring protests, aggressive internet censorship in countries like China and Vietnam, and the challenges for the corporate owners of social media platforms in an era of online speech.
The talk takes place at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC, 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
