Dr. Larisa Mann, assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies and Production
Pirate radio and public housing: a recipe for cultural autonomy?
Pirate radio broadcasting in England has been extremely influential in popular music. These stations' main history is in public housing projects whose geography, architecture and social context all served to protect and foster a vibrant and expressive culture. It's possible that exclusion and illegality, especially when combined with specific aspects of public infrastructure, can help foster communities' culture on their own terms. To what extent is digital radio is capable of meeting community needs? Or is it a more hostile environment for marginalized people's culture?
Dr. Magda Konieczna, assistant professor in the Department of Journalism
Public service journalism in the digital age
Quality journalism in the twentieth century was subsidized through things like family ownership and news bundling. Today, those old subsidies have been replaced by new ones that support an ecosystem of news nonprofits. I will explain how the new subsidies at once encourage and constrain innovation in news. Magda Konieczna studies the news business, and is working on a book called Journalism Without Profit: Making News When the Market Fails.