Topic: Media
From The Margaret Mead Symposium: Whither the United States in the World?
Commemorating the centennial of the birth of Margaret Mead.
December 2 & 3, 2001
Sponsors: Library of Congress and The Smithsonian Institution
What is media’s role in the world? Does media have a culture?
Foreign Correspondents Perception of America
Speaker: Stephen Hess
Political Scientist, The Brookings Institution, author, International News & Foreign Correspondents
Hess discusses data gathered from interviews with foreign correspondents asked what they think a stereotype of the United States is in their country.
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World Has Two Separate Media Resources
Speaker: Stephen Hess
Political Scientist, The Brookings Institution, author, International News & Foreign Correspondents
Hess discusses his work finding that the United States is becoming two media societies; one that has the time and money to access a rich media establishment, and one that may only have the time to read the morning newspaper.
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Media’s Role in Defining Culture
Speaker: Barbara Mossberg
President Emeritus, Goddard College, Senior Consultant, American Council on Education, Center for Institutional and International Initiatives
Mossberg discusses the engrained nature America’s diversity.
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International Media Culture
Speaker: Timothy White
Journalist, executive television and film producer
White discusses the benefits of an international media culture, arguing that because everything has to be covered, media material eventually gets to root causes.
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