Panelists

 

Dr. Anna Everett 

Dr. Todd Gitlin here

Dr. Rick Salutin here

 

 

DR. ANNA EVERETT. is Professor at and former chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). From 2002 to 2005 she was Director of the UCSB Center for Black Studies and in 2001 held the Belle van Zuylen Chair and Visiting Professorship in the Department of Women's Studies and New Media Studies at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. She is a member of and serves on several boards of international scholarly associations, including the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Console-ing Passions (CPTV), the Modern Language Association (MLA), among others. She is founding editor of the new journal *Screening Noir: A Journal of Film, Video and New Media Culture* (SN).

 

Dr. Everett has published numerous books and articles on topics of race and ethnicity, Black film criticism, Afrocentricity in the digital public sphere, youth and media, digitextuality, transformations in TV, youth and computer gaming. She has presented her research and scholarship at numerous national and international conferences around the world. Also, she was the lead organizer of the 2004 and 2005 AfroGEEKS conferences and co-organizer of the 2008 “Console-ing Passions” Conference on Feminism, TV and New Media.

 

Dr. Everett has received a number of awards, including a 2005 and 2007 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, a 2006 MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Grant, the UCSB Harold J. Plous Award for Outstanding Assistant Professor in 2001, the University of California President’s Fellowship Award, as well as conference support grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and Ford Foundation.

 

http://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/professors/everett/everett.html

 

 

DR. TODD GITLIN. holds degrees from Harvard University (mathematics), the University of Michigan (political science), and the University of California, Berkeley (sociology) and is currently a professor of journalism and sociology and chair of the Ph.D. program in Communications at Columbia University. Earlier, he was a professor of sociology and director of the mass communications program at the University of California, Berkeley, a professor of culture, journalism and sociology at New York University. During 1994-95, he held the chair in American Civilization at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has been a resident/fellow and visiting professor elsewhere in the USA, and also in Canada (UofT), China, Italy, Oslo, Tunisia.

 

He lectures frequently on culture and politics in the United States and around the world and has appeared on many National Public Radio programs including Fresh Air as well as on PBS, ABC, CBS and CNN. He lives in New York City with his wife, Laurel Cook.

 

His books (the latest of which are The Bulldozer and the Big Tent: Blind Republicans, Lame Democrats, and the Recovery of American Ideals), two novels, a collection of poetry, Busy Being Born, have been translated into 7 languages. Among his awards are the 2000 Harold U. Ribalow Book Prize, Notable Books, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Nonfiction Award, a nomination for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.

 

Dr. Gitlin has published widely in top national periodicals and is on the editorial board of Dissent, a contributing writer to Mother Jones, and a member of the Board of Trustees of openDemocracy.net. He is a regular contributor to the blog TPMcafe.com. and during the 2008 campaign is also writing a weekly “Sunday Watch” column for Columbia Journalism Review online and the Huffington Post.

 

http://toddgitlin.net/

 

 

DR. RICK SALUTIN. returned home to Canada in October, 1970, following ten years of university study in the United States. He has been a writer ever since. His many plays include 1837, on the movement for independence from the British Empire and Les Canadiens, about the famed hockey team and its relation to the spirit of Quebec nationalism, which received the Chalmers award for best Canadian play in 1977. His TV work includes Maria, about union organizing in the textile industry. He has written biography and history, as well as three novels, one of which, A Man of Little Faith, won the Books in Canada best first novel prize. He received the Toronto Arts Award in writing and publishing in 1991 and the National Newspaper Award for best columnist, for his Globe and Mail column on media, in 1993. He held the Maclean Hunter Chair in Ethics in Communication at Ryerson University from 1993 to 1995 and has taught in the Canadian Studies program of University College, University of Toronto, since 1978. He has written columns for Canadian Business, Toronto Life, TV Times, the Globe and Mail Broadcast Week and This Magazine, of which he is a founding editor. He was Globe and Mail media columnist from 1991 to 1999 and is now an op-ed columnist. His most recent book is The Womanizer, a novel.

 

http://www.uc.utoronto.ca/content/view/115/346/ http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/ArchivesSpecialCollections/FindingAids/CanadianLiterary/salutin-rick.htm