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*From:* Matthew F. Sandler [mailto:mfs2001@columbia.edu]
*Sent:* Monday, October 26, 2015 10:04 AM
*Subject:* Race and New Media, Nov. 11th, 6pm, Columbia University
To whom it may concern,
I am writing to request that you share the below announcement with your
students, to whom I think it will be of interest…
thanks,
Matt
*Race and New Media*
*November 11th, 6pm, World Room, Pulitzer Hall/Journalism *
Presented by the MA Program in American Studies, the Center for Study of
Ethnicity and Race, and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism
“Race and New Media” is a panel discussion about identity and new digital
publishing formats. It features academics (*Minh-Ha T. Pham of Pratt
University* and *Susan E. McGregor of Columbia*) and editors of online
magazines (*Lisa Lucas of Guernica and Ayesha Siddiqi of the New Inquiry*).
The panelists will be speaking about their own experience building careers
online as well as their sense of the way race works in the new media
landscape.
To guarantee admission, please RSVP here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/race-and-digital-media-tickets-19211646552%5Beventbrite.com%5D
(http://www.eventbrite.com)
For more information, please contact:
Matt Sandler, mfs2001@columbia.edu
*Speaker Bios: *
*Lisa Lucas* is the publisher of Guernica magazine. She has served as the
director of education at Tribeca Film Institute and consulted for various
non-profit arts and cultural organizations, including Sundance Film
Festival, San Francisco Film Society, and the Scholastic Art & Writing
Awards. Lisa is also co-chair of the non-fiction committee for the Brooklyn
Book Festival. You can find her on Twitter @likaluca.
*Ayesha Siddiqi *is Editor-in-Chief of The New Inquiry and a writer based
in New York. She has been the editor of BuzzFeed Ideas, and she tweets
@pushinghoops.
*Minh-Ha Pham *is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate Program in Media
Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Before arriving to Pratt,
she was an Assistant Professor of Visual Studies and Asian American Studies
at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. An interdisciplinary scholar,
her research focuses on the structural forces of race, gender, and class
shaping contemporary fashion media technologies, discourses, and practices.
She’s taken up these themes in studies of personal style blogs, virtual
fitting rooms, holographic fashion models, fashion design, the digital
fashion archive, and in her most recent work, fashion copyright talk and
copynorms. Her first book, Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race,
Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging, is forthcoming from Duke
University Press. It provides a structural analysis of personal style
blogging as a digital labor practice that has similarities to and is in
some ways continuous with industrial fashion work. Her current research
focuses on the politics and economies of race and fashion authorship. In
addition to Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet, she is the author of
numerous essays published in a wide range of academic journals and
mainstream media. Her research has been featured in, among other sites, The
New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, Wall Street Journal, and Huffington
Post.
*Susan E. Mcgregor* is Assistant Director of the Tow Center for Digital
Journalism & Assistant Professor at Columbia Journalism School, where she
helps supervise the dual-degree program in Journalism & Computer Science.
She teaches primarily in areas of data journalism & information
visualization, with a research interests in digital security, knowledge
management and alternative forms of digital distribution. McGregor was the
Senior Programmer on the News Graphics team at the Wall Street Journal
Online for four years before joining Columbia Journalism School in 2011.
—
Matt Sandler, Ph.D.
Program Director, MA in American Studies
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
Columbia University
425 Hamilton Hall
212-854-3248
mfs2001@columbia.edu
