Dear MAC Colleagues,

Greetings.

Since many of you may be finalizing or planning for your trip to San Francisco and registration for AEJMC Convention now, I hope you will consider including the following pre-conference panel in your schedule. MAC Division is sponsoring the following pre-conference panel on Tuesday, August 5 from 2 - 4 p.m. at the conference hotel. Communication Technology (CTEC) and International Communication (INTL) Divisions are co-sponsoring this session.

Please find information about the panel below:

Hackathons, coming to a university near you!: How to bring journalists, activists and programmers together to increase public understanding
This panel, designed as an interactive workshop, brings together the Institute for Justice and Journalism (located in Oakland, CA) and journalism professors to explain how to organize, and why journalism and mass communication schools should want to hold a hackathon on their campuses. Some hackathons have been criticized for not being ethnically or intellectually diverse. The Institute for Justice and Journalism’s highly successful Migrahacks are an exception, as they assist journalists, activists and computer programmers from a variety of diverse backgrounds to work together to shed light on the issue of migration around the world. The IJJ’s hackathons include training in the latest digital tools for journalism, and results in the creation of web-based and data driven content. The proposed teaching workshop will focus on the IJJ Migrahack model, and allow participants and the audience to look for ways to expand the model in an effort to create and organize other issue-oriented hackathons on college campuses around the country. The panel also will include discussion about the historical relationship between and activists and journalists.

Potential panelists
Phuong Ly, Executive Director, Institute for Justice and Journalism (confirmed, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area)

Celeste González de Bustamante, University of Arizona (confirmed, helping to organize a Migrahack at UA in spring 2015)

Melita Garza, Texas Christian University, (confirmed, will discuss historical relationship between activism and journalism)

Moderator: Jessica Retis-Rivas, Cal State University Northridge (confirmed, helped organize a Migrahack at CSUN in spring 2014)

Contact:
Celeste González de Bustamante at  [log in to unmask]

We hope you will be able to join this MAC-sponsored pre-conference panel.

Sincerely,
Mas


Mas Biswas, Ph.D.
Vice Head, Minorities and Communication Division
&
Assistant Professor
Communication Department
Loyola University Maryland
4501 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21210.
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