Digital media and social justice is a big issue. The
Graduate Center at the City University of New York has taken action to connect
research with broader audiences through social media. The City University of
New York received a research grant of five hundred and fifty thousand dollars
from the Ford Foundation to inform people about the issue. Students and faculty
members teamed up and created a twitter account (@JustPublic365) which had
seven full-time project members dedicated to inform the public. Project members
hope to reach out to one-hundred and fifty graduate faculty member as well as
the approximately seven thousand City University of New York faculty members.
They plan to create workshops to show graduate students and faculty members how
they can approach this issue. In my opinion this is a great idea, I believe
that we should start getting involved as a school. If more schools decided to
bring the issue of social justice to life more schools will follow. John
Carroll is already know for being one of the top schools in the nation and I
believe that through social media we can effectively spread the message of
social justice.
Title: Digital Media Meets
Social Justice
Author: Tanya Roscorla
Date: 9/11/14
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