{"id":9249,"date":"2017-05-25T10:23:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T14:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=9249"},"modified":"2017-05-25T10:23:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T14:23:21","slug":"social-media-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/social-media-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement Forum | The Impact of Social Media on Politics, Culture, and Scholarly Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On<strong> Saturday, May 27, 2017 at 12:30 p.m. in the auditorium (room 120) of List Art<\/strong>, the Library will host a Commencement Forum entitled, &#8220;The Impact of Social Media on Politics, Culture, and Scholarly Communication.&#8221; This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Social media and other rapidly-evolving digital technologies have changed the way we communicate in all realms of our lives. This\u00a0panel discussion will\u00a0focus on the impact of social media on political, cultural, and scholarly communication.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Impact of Social Media on Politics, Culture, and Scholarly Communication\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jPcv4BP2--w?list=PL2PwShbFBf4C1bxfcCRsYTbJtgaA7igH-\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Panelists include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>David Corn\u00a0<\/strong>\u201981, P\u201921,\u00a0American political journalist and author and the chief of the Washington bureau for\u00a0<em>Mother Jones<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Alissa Quart\u00a0<\/strong>\u201894, Executive Editor of Economic Hardship Reporting Project and author of <em>Branded<\/em>, <em>Republic of Outsiders<\/em>, and other books that mix reportage and cultural theory<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elias Muhanna<\/strong>, Brown University\u00a0Manning Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and contributing writer to\u00a0<em>The New Yorker\u00a0<\/em>online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9286\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/social-media-commencement\/davidcornheadshot\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9286\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9286 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DavidCornHeadShot-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DavidCornHeadShot-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DavidCornHeadShot-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DavidCornHeadShot-768x1160.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DavidCornHeadShot-1017x1536.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DavidCornHeadShot-1356x2048.jpg 1356w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DavidCornHeadShot-100x151.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DavidCornHeadShot-150x226.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DavidCornHeadShot-200x302.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DavidCornHeadShot-300x453.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DavidCornHeadShot-450x679.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DavidCornHeadShot-600x906.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DavidCornHeadShot-900x1359.jpg 900w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DavidCornHeadShot.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Corn &#8217;81, P&#8217;21<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>David Corn &#8217;81, P&#8217;21<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Corn is a veteran Washington journalist and political commentator. He is the Washington bureau chief for <i>Mother Jones<\/i> magazine and an analyst for MSNBC and NBC News. He won the 2012 George Polk award and a National Magazine award for breaking the 47 percent video story that influenced the Obama-Romney presidential contest. For 20 years, he was the Washington editor of <i>The Nation<\/i> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Corn writes on a host of subjects, including politics, the White House, Congress and national security. He has broken stories on Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Bill O&#8217;Reilly, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Rand Paul, George H.W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Enron, the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA leak case, corruption in Iraq, the National Rifle Association, the Pentagon, and assorted Washington players and institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Corn has written for <i>The Washington Post<\/i>, <i>The New York Times<\/i>, <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<i>Los Angeles Times<\/i>, <i>The Washington Times<\/i>, <i>The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/i>, <i>The Boston Globe<\/i>, <i>Newsday<\/i>, <i>Harper&#8217;s<\/i>, <i>The New Republic<\/i>, <i>The Atlantic<\/i>, <i>The Washington Monthly<\/i>, the\u00a0<i>LA Weekly<\/i>, the <i>Village Voice<\/i>, <i>The Independent<\/i>, <i>Elle<\/i>, <i>Slate<\/i>, <i>Salon,<\/i> and other publications and websites. He has blogged for AOL\u2019s \u201cPolitics Daily,\u201d HuffingtonPost.com, CQPolitics.com, and <i>The Guardian<\/i>. For years he wrote the online column &#8220;Capital Games&#8221; for TheNation.com.<\/p>\n<p>He is the author of three New York Times best-sellers\u2014<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062108005\/showdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062108005\/showdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">howdown: The Inside Story of How Barack Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party<\/a><\/i>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/85635\/hubris-by-michael-isikoff-and-david-corn\/9780307346827\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War<\/i><\/a> (with Michael Isikoff); and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/32037\/the-lies-of-george-w-bush-by-david-corn\/9781400081516\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception<\/i><\/a>\u2014and the e-book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062266811\/47-percent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>47 Percent: Uncovering the Romney Video that Rocked the 2012 Election<\/i><\/a>. His novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/deepbackground\/davidcorn\/9781429972482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Deep Background<\/i><\/a>, was hailed as one of the best novels of the year by <i>Los Angeles Times<\/i>. Corn is also the author of the biography <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/servlet\/BookDetailsPL?bi=9012848635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA&#8217;s Crusades<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Corn has long been a prominent analyst on television and radio. He regularly appears on <i>Hardball<\/i>, <i>The Rachel Maddow Show, The Last Word,<\/i> and other MSNBC shows. For years, he was a Fox News contributor, appearing on <i>The O&#8217;Reilly Factor<\/i>, <i>Hannity and Colmes<\/i> and <i>On the Record with Greta Van Susteren<\/i>. He was a regular panelist on the weekly television show,\u00a0<i>Eye On Washington<\/i>, which was syndicated on PBS stations across the United States. He was a guest host for CNN&#8217;s <i>Crossfire<\/i> and a regular panelist on its <i>Capital Gang<\/i>. He has appeared on CBS News&#8217; <i>Face the Nation<\/i>, ABC News&#8217; <i>This Week with George Stephanopoulos<\/i>, PBS&#8217;s <i>Newshour<\/i> and <i>Washington Week in Review<\/i>, the <i>CBS Evening News<\/i>, <i>Fox News Sunday<\/i>, CNN&#8217;s <i>Reliable Sources<\/i>, <i>The McLaughlin Group<\/i>, C-SPAN&#8217;s <i>Washington Journal<\/i>, and many other shows. He is a regular guest on <i>To the Point<\/i>, a National Public Radio show, and has contributed commentary to NPR, BBC Radio, CBC Radio, and other radio networks in the United States and overseas. He has been a guest on scores of call-in radio programs.<\/p>\n<p>His twitter feed&#8211;@DavidCornDC&#8211;has 400,000 followers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9282\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/social-media-commencement\/_dsf9541_b-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9282\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9282\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DSF9541_b-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DSF9541_b-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DSF9541_b-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DSF9541_b-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DSF9541_b-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DSF9541_b-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DSF9541_b-1-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DSF9541_b-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DSF9541_b-1-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DSF9541_b-1-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DSF9541_b-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/DSF9541_b-1-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alissa Quart &#8217;94<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Alissa Quart &#8217;94<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alissa Quart is the Executive Editor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/economichardship.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Economic Hardship Reporting Project<\/a>, a journalism non-profit devoted to reporting on inequality. She is also the author of four books including,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Branded-Selling-Teenagers-Alissa-Quart\/dp\/0738208620\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1493306578&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=branded+alissa+quart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span id=\"m_-7562040501385183777m_-3181454942995107186yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492871038125_8091\">Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers<\/span><\/em><\/a><span id=\"m_-7562040501385183777m_-3181454942995107186yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492871038125_8092\">, and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/thenewpress.com\/books\/republic-of-outsiders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span id=\"m_-7562040501385183777m_-3181454942995107186yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492871038125_8093\">Republic of Outsiders <\/span><\/em><\/a><span id=\"m_-7562040501385183777m_-3181454942995107186yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492871038125_8094\">and the poetry book <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Monetized-Alissa-Quart\/dp\/1881163563\/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span id=\"m_-7562040501385183777m_-3181454942995107186yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492871038125_8095\">Monetized<\/span><\/em><\/a><span id=\"m_-7562040501385183777m_-3181454942995107186yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492871038125_8096\">. Her latest non-fiction book is forthcoming in 2018 from HarperCollins. She has written features for many magazines and has frequently contributed reported opinion pieces to <i id=\"m_-7562040501385183777m_-3181454942995107186yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492871038125_8111\">The New York Time<\/i>s and elsewhere. She has also written and produced a number of multimedia projects and video, including the Emmy- and ASME-nominated multimedia project <\/span><span id=\"m_-7562040501385183777m_-3181454942995107186yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492871038125_8097\"><em>The Last Clinic. <\/em>Alissa&#8217;s poetry has appeared in the<em> London Review of Books. <\/em>She\u00a0<\/span><span id=\"m_-7562040501385183777m_-3181454942995107186yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1492871038125_8098\">taught at Columbia University\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism, among other universities, and was a 2010 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9256\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9256\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/social-media-commencement\/emuhanna_photo__thumbnail\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9256\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9256\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/emuhanna_photo__thumbnail.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/emuhanna_photo__thumbnail.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/emuhanna_photo__thumbnail-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/04\/emuhanna_photo__thumbnail-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elias Muhanna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Elias Muhanna<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elias Muhanna is the Manning Assistant Professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brown.edu\/academics\/comparative-literature\/\">Comparative Literature<\/a> at Brown University, and director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/islamichumanities.org\/\">Digital Islamic Humanities Project<\/a>.\u00a0He earned his doctorate\u00a0in Near Eastern Languages &amp; Civilizations from Harvard University and was a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies in 2015-16. In 2017-18, he will be a Public Engagement Fellow of the Whiting Foundation. His research focuses on encyclopedic literature in the Islamic world and Europe, the cultural production of the Mamluk Empire, and the problem of the vernacular in different literary traditions.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his scholarship, Muhanna writes frequently for the mainstream press.\u00a0He is a contributing writer for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/elias-muhanna\">NewYorker.com<\/a><\/em>, and his essays and criticism have appeared regularly in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/latitude.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/elias-muhanna\/?_r=0\">The New York Times<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/authors\/elias-muhanna\/\"><em>The Nation<\/em><\/a>, and other periodicals. His blog, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/qifanabki.com\/\">Qifa Nabki<\/a><\/em>, is a forum for intellectual exchange and debate on Levantine politics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Saturday, May 27, 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>: 12:30 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>: Room 120, <a href=\"http:\/\/brown.edu\/Facilities\/Facilities_Management\/maps\/index.php#building\/LISTART\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Albert &amp; Vera List Art Building<\/a>, 64 College Street, Providence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, May 27, 2017 at 12:30 p.m. in the auditorium (room 120) of List Art, the Library will host a Commencement Forum entitled, &#8220;The Impact of Social Media on Politics, Culture, and Scholarly Communication.&#8221; This event is free and open to the public. Social media and other rapidly-evolving digital technologies have changed the way <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/social-media-commencement\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Commencement Forum | The Impact of Social Media on Politics, Culture, and Scholarly Communication<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}