DIGITAL engAGEment: Media. Literate. #activist

Following the resounding success of last year’s conference, the Media Studies M.S. Program at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York is pleased to announce its second annual DIGITAL engAGEment Conference to take place on Friday, May 18, 2018 at 25 Broadway in Manhattan’s Financial District.

DIGITAL engAGEment encompasses myriad ways in which humans encounter, utilize, create and participate with digital technologies, processes, experiences, cultures and environments in the contemporary moment.
This year’s conference theme: Media. Literate. #activist, is a call to express and refresh concepts of media activism and media literacy in the present moment, specifically: what it means to be a media activist, to study media activism and to critique media coverage and activism in the current digital (and political) environment? How does media activism connect to media literacy – by which we mean both the educational and social movements that encourage critical engagement with media, but also the basic comprehension and understanding the digital environment requires of its users and citizens?

• Select Start Month: May
• Select Start Date: 18
• Select Start Year: 2018
• End Month: May
• End Date: 18
• End Year: 2018
• Venue Name: Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
• City: New York
• Country: US
• Website: https://mailchi.mp/3d5849e1d313/digital-engagement-conference?e=769dc74230
• Organizer: Media Department, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
• Contact Email: mj.robinson29@brooklyn.cuny.edu