Presented by The Guardian

The Media in Dangerous Times

Sat 9 Sep 2017

Julianne Schultz + Lenore Taylor + Daniel Angus + Susan Forde

Auditorium 2, State Library of Queensland

Panel / The Guardian / Sold Out

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#Performances

Sat 9 Sep 2017 - 5:30pm

Auditorium 2, State Library of Queensland

Selling Fast

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

SOLD OUT

A panel discussion about how news organisations are responding to the threat of Fake News and the formation of filter bubbles through social media algorithms and knowledge curation.

#Artists

Julianne Schultz

Julianne Schultz is the publisher and founding editor of Griffith Review and the author of books including Reviving the Fourth Estate.

Lenore Taylor is editor of Guardian Australia. She spent almost three decades as a political correspondent and commentator based in the federal press gallery. She has won two Walkley awards and has twice won the Paul Lyneham award for press gallery journalism. She co-authored a book called Shitstorm on Australia's response to the global financial crisis.

Daniel Angus

Dr Daniel Angus is a senior lecturer in computational social science and journalism program coordinator at The University of Queensland. His research focuses on the development of visualization and analysis methods for communication data, with a specific focus on conversation data. His computational methods have improved our understanding of the nature of communication in medical consultations, conversations in aged care settings, television broadcast, social media, and newspaper reporting. Dr Angus has been involved in computer science research for 15 years and contributes regularly to media and industry on the impact of technology on society.

Susan Forde

Susan Forde is Director of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, and Professor of Journalism at Griffith University, Brisbane. She works in the fields of alternative and independent media and recently carried out a Visiting Scholar’s appointment at New York University to investigate public trust, transparency and the media. She is the author of Challenging the News: The Journalism of Alternative and Community Media (Palgrave Macmillan); and co-author of Developing Dialogues: Indigenous and Ethnic Community Broadcasting in Australia (Intellect). Her newest work, Journalism for Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media Alternatives co-authored with colleagues from Griffith University and Simon Fraser University (Canada) was published by Routledge in early 2017. It offers different models for journalism that might mobilise the public and enable the media to better report climate crisis. She worked as a journalist in the independent and alternative media before joining academia.