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January 18 — Presented by Dr. Gary Meyer
February 8 — Presented by Dr. Scott D'Urso
March 7 — Presented by Dr. Sumana Chattopadhyay
April 25 — Presented by Dr. Jean Grow
September 14 —Backpack & Citizen Journalism: News and Storytelling in the 21st Century
Presented by Ms. Linda Menck
The monopoly big media had on the news is over. The Internet and a host of portable digital devices make it possible for backpack journalists - a new generation of multimedia storytellers - to capture and publish news in real time to a global audience. Learn why veteran media professionals are being made redundant and sojos (solo journalists) are taking over. We will discuss what multimedia storytelling is, why it’s in vogue, and how it will transform the delivery of news. Discover how backpack journalists work, how they are evolving, what gear is in their backpacks, and what it costs. Finally, we will examine the impact backpack journalism is having and the need to reeducate media professionals.
October 12 — After the Flood: Anger, Attribution and the Seeking of Information
Presented by Dr. Robert Griffin
Robert J. Griffin with Janet Yang (MU MA grad now in the PhD program at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York); Ellen ter Huurne (University of Twente, The Netherlands, who spent a spring semester at Marquette in the CMMR in 2006); Francesca Boerner (MU MA grad in SHE program, now at the Research Center Julich, Germany); Sherry Ortiz (MU MA grad in SHE program); and Sharon Dunwoody (University of Wisconsin-Madison). This analysis tests the Risk Information Seeking and Processing (RISP) model in surveys of Milwaukee-area residents done 1999-2001.
The presentation is based on a "top faculty paper" presented in 2006 to the Science Communication Interest Group of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Data were gathered under a Science to Achieve Results (S.T.A.R.) grant to Marquette University from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, and U.S. Department of Agriculture. In an effort to understand what motivates people to attend to information about flood risks, this study applies the RISP model to explore how local residents responded to damaging river flooding in the Milwaukee area. Anger at managing agencies was associated with the desire for information and active information seeking and processing, as well as with risk judgment, personal efficacy, lower institutional trust, and attributions for the causes of flood losses.
November 9 — Presented by Dr. James Scotton
December 7 — Presented by Dr. Sarah Bonewits Feldner and Dr. Scott D'Urso
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