![]() The symposium kicked off on Friday with a dinner reception and screening of Joni Siani’s “Celling Your Soul,” an award-winning documentary about “our love/hate relationship with our devices,” from the viewpoint of 18- to 24-year-olds who make up the first generation of digital natives. Dru Johnson, associate professor of biblical and theological studies at King’s, and Esther Jhun, the College’s director of counseling, moderated a Q&A with Siani. On Saturday, Dan Churchwell of the Acton Institute introduced the symposium. Naomi Schaefer Riley, author of Be the Parent, Please: Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat, presented the first keynote lecture with a Q&A moderated by Dr. Anthony Bradley, chair of the program in Religious and Theological Studies at The King’s College. In her lecture, Riley presented her research on media consumption, noting that greater media consumption can widen existing inequities between populations. Her talk discussed some ways that families of school-age children have tried to mitigate the harmful effects of early social media use. I think media has bred mushy children who really lack grit.” One school district introduced a “Wait Until Eight” policy to urge families not to give children cell phones until they reach eighth grade.Īfter listening to the lecture and Q&A, Lilly Carman (MCA ’22) said that she would even be in favor of a more dramatic proposal: to wait until children are fully grown before allowing them access to “so much power, temptation, distraction.” She said, “For myself, I want my kids to remember their childhood as being outside and playing with each other and going on dangerous adventures. Richard John, professor of history and communications at Columbia University. Henry Bleattler, chair of the program in Media, Culture, and the Arts at The King’s College, moderated the Q&A. John suggested that free expression has had a long and storied history of tension as well as success in America. He suggested the history of free expression matters to current issues as the U.S. The Institute works internationally to “promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.Considers the role of social media giants and whether Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act needs to be updated to clarify the legal limits of Internet giants. The Acton Institute is a nonprofit, ecumenical think tank located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Acton Institute is uniquely positioned to comment on the sound economic and moral foundations necessary to sustain humane environmental and social policies. With its commitment to pursue a society that is free and virtuous, the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty is a leading voice in the national environmental and social policy debate. Based at The King’s College, MPJI is named after the late John McCandlish Phillips, a legendary reporter at The New York Times. The McCandlish Phillips Journalism Institute (MPJI) was formed in New York City in 2014 with the mission to provide education, training and professional development for journalists at the high school, undergraduate and professional levels. Learn more and reserve tickets today here.Ībout the McCandlish Phillips Journalism Institute The symposium will be moderated by the Acton Institute’s Associate Director of Program Outreach, Dan Churchwell, and Associate Professor of Journalism at The King’s College and MPJI Director, Paul Glader. Read Schuchardt, media scholar Joni Siani, tech ethicist David Ryan Polgar, media ethics and first amendment scholar, Father Jordi Pujol, PhD and Subverse co-founder and reporter Emily Molli. Panelists include Silicon Valley technologist Aaron Ginn, former Experience Design Consultant for Google and BEACON founder Joe Toscano, Associate Professor of Communication at Wheaton College Dr. Richard John, and author of “Be the Parent, Please: Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning Snapchat,” Naomi Schaefer Riley. ![]() ![]() Keynote speakers include Professor of History and Communications at Columbia University, Dr. How can humans flourish in the 21st Century?.Should citizens be skeptical or resistant to technology and if so, how?.How do free societies guard against information pollution while also maintaining freedom of speech?.How do we retain and maintain our human dignity in a digital age in which tech companies profit by addicting humans to tech products used to harvest data?.How can citizens become more media literate in a digital age where social media blends and blurs content?.Should Big Tech companies and social media giants create public spaces where free speech abounds? Or should they govern speech as traditional publishers do?.
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