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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
All events are held in the Kent Student Center.
Wednesday, April 11, 2001
9 a.m.
Check-in and continental breakfast
Kiva, Kent Student Center
10 a.m.
Kiva, Kent Student Center
Session One
The Proper Role of the News Media in a Democratic Society:
Is It Enough Simply to Cover the News?
Discussant: Mr. Phil Meyer, Knight Chair in Journalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- "A Journalistic Philosophy for a Democratic Society: Objectivity vs. Civic Involvement"
Ms. Louise Mengelkoch, assistant professor, Department of Journalism, Bemidji State University
- "Recovering Journalism as a Democratic Art"
Dr. John Pauly, professor and chair, Department of Communication, St. Louis University
- "Public Journalism and Its Critics:
In Pursuit of a Public Philosophy for Public Journalism"
Dr. Linda Steiner, associate professor, Department of Journalism and Mass Media, Rutgers University; and Dr. Tanni Haas, assistant professor, Department of Speech Communication, City University of New York - Brooklyn College
12:15 p.m.
Ballroom, Kent Student Center
Luncheon and Opening Keynote Address
"Mega Media: How Markets Are Changing News"
by Ms. Nancy Hicks Maynard
Nancy Hicks Maynard has spent more than 30 years in the news business. She is the former co-owner and publisher of The Oakland Tribune of Oakland, California. Maynard covered domestic policy for The New York Times in New York and Washington, D.C., and education for The New York Post.
Maynard served as senior vice president of the Freedom Forum and chair of its Media Studies Center. In addition, she has been a panelist on Face the Nation, Meet the Press and Washington Week in Review.
She is currently president of Maynard Partners Inc., a consulting company that focuses on media economics and its impact on the future. She recently published Mega Media: How Market Forces Are Transforming News.
Luncheon is complimentary, but advance reservations are required. Please register using the online registration form.
2:15 p.m.
Kiva, Kent Student Center
Session Two
Media and the Vanishing Voter:
What Accounts for Declining Political Participation.
Discussant: Dr. Darrell West, John Hazen White Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, Department of Political Science, and director, Taubman Center for Public Policy, Brown University
- "Public Journalism and Voter Turnout in Statewide Referendums: Results from a 'Media Partnership' in Rochester, N.Y."
Dr. James R. Bowers, professor, Department of Political Science, St. John Fisher College; and
Mr. Gary Walker, vice president of news and public affairs, WXXI-Public Broadcasting Council, Rochester, N.Y.
- "Communication and Participation: A Proposed Research Agenda"
Dr. Ronald E. Ostman, professor and chair, Department of Communication, Cornell University; and Dr. Dietram A. Scheufele, assistant professor, Department of Communication, Cornell University
- "Media Conglomeration and Campaign News Coverage: Politics as a Soap Opera"
Dr. James H. Wittebols, professor, Department of Communication Studies, Niagara University
4:30 p.m.
Tours of campus, Hospitality Room
7:30 p.m.
Ballroom, Kent Student Center
Keynote Address by Mr. Hodding Carter III
"Whose News Is It?"
Hodding Carter III is president, CEO and trustee of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Carter has been a frequent chief correspondent for the PBS documentary series Frontline and a regular panelist with This Week With David Brinkley. He has served as a host, anchor, panelist, correspondent and reporter for a variety of other public affairs television shows on PBS, ABC, CBS, BBC and CNN.
Carter was a Washington-based opinion columnist for The Wall Street Journal for 10 years, a syndicated columnist with the United Media/NEA and a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post and many other newspapers and magazines.
He served as assistant secretary of state and department spokesman in President Jimmy Carter's administration, most notably during the Iran hostage crisis.
Carter is the winner of four national Emmy Awards and the Edward R. Murrow Award for public affairs television documentaries produced for the Inside Story media criticism series.
A dessert reception will follow the keynote address in Room 204 of the Kent Student Center.
Thursday, April 12, 2001
8:30 a.m.
Check-in and Continental Breakfast
Kiva, Kent Student Center
9 a.m.
Kiva, Kent Student Center
Session Three
New Technologies of Communication:
Can We/Will We/Should We Achieve Participatory Democracy?
Discussant: Ms. Barbara Cochran, president, Radio-Television News Directors Association
- "Gathering Storm: Cyber Activism After Seattle"
Ms. DeeDee Halleck, professor, Department of Communication, University of California - San Diego
- "Waiting for Cyber-Democracy is Like Waiting for Godot"
Dr. Michael Margolis, professor, Department of Political Science, University of Cincinnati; and Dr. David Resnick, professor, Department of Political Science, University of Cincinnati
- "Can New Information Technologies Promote Democratic Deliberation?"
Dr. Rodger A. Payne, associate professor, Department of Political Science, University of Louisville
10:30 a.m.
Break
Kiva, Kent Student Center
10:45 a.m.
Kiva, Kent Student Center
Session Four
Media Concentration and Democratic Discourse:
Are Media Corporations Profiting at the Public's Expense?
Discussant: Dr. Mark Crispin Miller, professor of media ecology, Department of Communication Culture, and director, Project on Media Ownership, New York University
- "Political Discourse Remains Vigorous Despite Media Ownership"
Dr. F. Dennis Hale, professor, Department of Journalism, Bowling Green State University
- "Is What's Good for General Motors Good for the First Amendment? Corporate Media Concentration's 'Dagger at the Throat' of the Press Clause"
Mr. Robert Kerr, doctoral student, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- "A Different Experience: Media, Profit and Politics in Canada"
Dr. David Taras, professor, Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary
12:30 p.m.
Ballroom, Kent Student Center
Luncheon and Closing Keynote Speech
"The Irrationality of Rational Choice: Audience Segmentation and the Real Digital Divide"
by Dr. Oscar H. Gandy, Jr.
Dr. Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. is the Herbert I. Schiller Information and Society Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. His areas of expertise include the political economy of communication and information, public policy issues in privacy and new technologies and communication as a vehicle for political and social change. He is the author of Communication and Race: A Structural Perspective.
Luncheon is complimentary, but advance reservations are required. To register online, click here for the online registration form.
For additional information, contact Symposium co-chairs Dr. Thomas Yantek of the Department of Political Science at tyantek@kent.edu or (330) 672-8929 or Dr. Joseph Harper of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at jharper@kent.edu or (330) 672-8285.
Dr. Yantek and Dr. Harper also can be reached at their respective departments with the mailing address of:
Kent State University
PO Box 5190
Kent, OH 44242-0001
Persons with special needs are asked to call (330) 672-3391 to arrange accommodations.
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Symposium Web site created October 2, 2000
Updated April 10, 2001
Web site contact:
Margaret Garmon at mgarmon@kent.edu
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