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PDI Seminar Series – Changing Media Landscape
November 27th, 2018 - 4:15 pm to 6:15 pm
Room 280A, Crown Law Building, Stanford Law School
Note: This seminar series is open only to Stanford faculty and scholars.
The Project on Democracy and the Internet’s Fall Seminar Series on Free Speech, Democracy, and the Internet is hosted by Nate Persily, James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford, and Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management at Facebook, every Tuesday, from September 25 to November 27 (excluding holidays).
The goal of this seminar series is to encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing as we address the impact of the internet on democracy and build this new field of study. Guest speakers from academia and the technology sector will cover topics including disinformation, polarization, hate speech, political advertising, media transformation, election integrity, and legal regulation of internet platforms in the U.S. and abroad.
Speakers
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford
Yochai Benkler, Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies & Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society