SUBVERSE EMILY MOLLI FREEHe suggested the history of free expression matters to current issues as the U.S. John suggested that free expression has had a long and storied history of tension as well as success in America. Henry Bleattler, chair of the program in Media, Culture, and the Arts at The King’s College, moderated the Q&A. Richard John, professor of history and communications at Columbia University. 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. Her talk discussed some ways that families of school-age children have tried to mitigate the harmful effects of early social media use. In her lecture, Riley presented her research on media consumption, noting that greater media consumption can widen existing inequities between populations. Anthony Bradley, chair of the program in Religious and Theological Studies at The King’s College. 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. On Saturday, Dan Churchwell of the Acton Institute introduced the symposium. 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. 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. Questions raised by the symposium included, “Should Big Tech companies and social media giants create public spaces where free speech abounds, or should they govern speech as traditional publishers do?” and, “How can citizens become more media literate in a digital age where social media blends and blurs content?” On Friday evening and all day Saturday, close to 150 journalists, academics, professionals, and students and alumni of The King’s College gathered together to consider how regular citizens can seek the truth, guard our liberties, and retain human dignity in a digital age filled with addictive technologies and information pollution. The Acton Institute, named for the English historian Lord John Acton (1834-1902), is a think tank founded to “promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.” On September 6 and 7, the McCandlish Phillips Journalism Institute at The King’s College and the Acton Institute co-sponsored a symposium on “Technology, New Media and Virtue” at the King’s campus.
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