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Alternative Media and Immigration

Media Studies Professor Hector Amaya and producer/ director Eric Byler will host a short screening from Byler’s recent documentary, based on the groundbreaking YouTube channel, 9500 Liberty. The devastating social and economic impact of the “Immigration Resolution” portrayed in the documentary is felt in the lives of real people in homes and in local businesses.

9500 Liberty reveals the startling vulnerability of a local government, targeted by national anti-immigration networks using the Internet to frighten and intimidate lawmakers and citizens. Alarmed by a climate of fear and racial division, residents form a resistance using YouTube videos and virtual townhalls, setting up a real-life showdown in the seat of county government. But the ferocious fight to adopt and then reverse this policy unfolds inside government chambers, on the streets, and on the Internet: 9500 Liberty provides a front row seat to all three battlegrounds.

The speakers will also discuss alternative media in relation to immigration detention centers, and as a documentary practice.

This event is part of the Media, Democracy & Diversity Conference April 2nd. For a full conference schedule visit the website at here.

View the extended trailer for 9500 Liberty here.

Speakers:

• Hector Amaya , University of Virginia
• Eric Byler , Director/ Producer, 9500 Liberty
• Danny Navarro , University of Virginia, moderator

Hosted by the University of Virginia Department of Media Studies, in collaboration with the Asian Student Union, and the Latino Student Alliance.

Submit to MOVABLE TYPE!

MOVABLE TYPE is an undergraduate digital journal of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. We hope to attract work from all schools and fields here at U.Va and compile pieces that insightfully examine our current media system or demonstrate the ways in which students are practicing media. Whether you have written a paper on audience behavior, analyzed political advertisements, or produced a documentary on Internet privacy, your submissions are welcome! We accept academic papers, podcasts, videos, culture jamming, comics...the list goes on.

Want to submit? Have questions? Visit http://movabletypemedia.com.

Email submissions@movabletypemedia.com by Friday March 5th with your submissions.

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The Death and Life of American Journalism

Join the Dept. of Media Studies as we engage Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols in a discussion of their new book, THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM: The Media Revolution that will Begin the World Again (Nation Books, 2010), which explores the crisis of modern journalism. Rather than blaming the Internet, they offer an original explanation for the crisis, which locates the problem in the historical conflict between commercial values and the public service that is journalism. They do not merely identify the troubles of American newspapers—they offer a bold solution to saving journalism, and by extension, democracy. Going back to the roots of our republic, McChesney and Nichols make a case for federal intervention and assistance.

Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organization and hosts “Media Matters” on NPR-affiliate WILL-AM radio.

John Nichols has worked as a daily newspaper journalist and magazine writer for 25 years, reporting from more than 25 countries and interviewing every US president since Jimmy Carter. A pioneering political blogger for The Nation, he is the magazine’s Washington correspondent. A co-founder of Free Press, he appears regularly on MSNBC, CNN, the BBC and other broadcast and cable networks.

Media Studies Major Information Sessions

If you are a second year and are thinking of applying to be a Media Studies major, come to an information session with our undergrad director. There will be time for Q&A and some of our current majors will be on hand for you to talk with. Learn all about the major, thae application process and the deadline to apply.

March 1, 2010 - 12:00 - 1:00pm - Clemons 407

March 1, 2010 - 7:00 - 8:00pm - Clark 102

Follow MDST Major at Sundance Film Festival

Fourth-year Media Studies major, Hannah Chipman, is attending the Sundance Film Festival which begins Jan 21st. You can follow her adventures at Sundance here.

Follow the Blog of MDST majors on the NYC Trip

Follow the blog as our majors as they visit major media outlets in New York City Jan. 11 - 15, 2010 accompanied by Prof. Bodroghkozy and Prof. Press! Fourth-year major Denise Linn is our official blogger for the trip.