Park School Mini-Course on 'The Financial Market to the Twitter Revolution'

02/11/14

Contributed by Melissa Gattine

Media for Social Responsibility: The Financial Market to the Twitter Revolution is a one-credit mini-course open to all Ithaca College majors. The course explores media’s responsibility to society as well as how the media communicates issues of global social consequence.

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Media for Social Responsibility: The Financial Market to the Twitter Revolution
GCOM 20000 – 01, CRN 43816
April 10, April 11 and April 13, 2014
1 credit
Prof. Anthony Adornato

The course format includes a keynote address by Emmy-award winning journalist Carl Quintanilla from CNBC's Squawk on the Street along with other guest speakers in person and via skype.

Key Topics include:

Journalists’ coverage of financial markets
Mainstream and social media’s affects on financial markets
Social media’s impact on mass communications
Grassroots campaigns, such as Occupy Wall Street
Economic inequality
Personal finance

Guest Speakers:

Dan Gillmor, founding director of the new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship
David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and best-selling author
Alka Bramhandkar, Professor, Finance and International Business, School of Business
Alexa O'Brien, journalist and digital media strategist.

For more information, visit the course website: ithaca.edu/m4sr

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