September 13

Annenberg Research Seminar: Pablo Boczkowski, Northwestern University
Annenberg Room 207, 12 noon
Join students and faculty for a presentation by Pablo Boczkowski, professor of media, technology and society at Northwestern University. His topic: “When supply and demand do not meet: The divergent online news preference of journalists and readers and what they mean for the future of media and democracy.” From Dr. Boczkowski: “In this talk I will report on a series of studies that bridge my recently published book, News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance (University of Chicago Press, 2010) and a new book that I am writing during the current academic year. These studies focus on the existence and magnitude of a thematic gap between the news that journalists who work at elite online news sites consider most newsworthy and the stories that attract most attention among the audience of these sites; the factors that shape this gap; and, what this gap means for the economic viability of these news organizations and the quality of democratic life.” Lunch will be served.



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