In the Nov. 9 Road to the White House: Politics, Media & Technology, the Trojan debate team and the panel of Annenberg faculty addressed the issue of narrative framing in media. On the panel were faculty members Gordon Stables, Thomas Hollihan, Marc Cooper, and students Joel Lemuel, and Avi Munoz. Hollihan led the discussion by defining the role of the press in today's media. "The press don't tell us what to think but they do tell us what to think about," Hollihan said. In relation to the presidential campaign, the news narrative have also had influence in what the public……
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Support Democracy: Subscribe to a Newspaper, Says Faculty Fellow Tom Hollihan at CCLP Democracy Forum
L to R: Lisa Garcia Bedolla, CCLP Faculty Fellow Tom Hollihan, Carolyn De La PenaPhoto Credit: California Council for the Humanities"You want to do something good for democracy?" asked Tom Hollihan, Ph.D., USC Annenberg professor and CCLP faculty fellow. "Subscribe to a newspaper!" he told the audience at the California Council for the Humanities' Searching for Democracy Forum, a symposium co-sponsored by the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy. Hollihan's suggestion that a strong democracy requires a vibrant news media was just one of many views on democracy and civic discourse offered by participants at the March 4th……
CCLP partners with California Council for the Humanities to present forum on Democracy & Civic Discourse
CCLP has partnered with the California Council for the Humanities and organizations across California to present a major conference on Democracy and Political Discourse. Faculty Fellow Tom Hollihan is a featured panelist in the program and CCLP research staff will join a statewide effort to advance civic conversation. The March 4th event at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy kicks off Searching for Democracy–a two-year CCH initiative designed to foster public discourse on the meaning of democracy through a series of local, regional and statewide activities. The topics of civic discourse and democracy take center stage at the……
Hollihan in LAT – Tuscon shootings
Faculty Fellow Tom Hollihan was cited in an article in the Los Angeles Times on the fatal shootings in Tuscon, AZ that has killed 9 people and critcally wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. According to Hollihan, people on the political fringe "get affected by a kind of toxic political culture that makes them angry and paranoid that their government is being taken away."……
Hollihan in SacBee on debates
Faculty Fellow Tom Hollihan was quoted in The Sacramento Bee that the gubernatorial debate between candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown "probably the most significant event leading up to the election." Hollihan believes that this debate will be the deciding factor for many of California's uncommitted voters…….
Hollihan presents “Barack Obama and the Debate on Health Care Reform”
"Just after noon, and its already standing room only," joked Annenberg School for Communication director Larry Gross. Students, faculty, and staff gathered at the first Annenberg Research Seminar on August 30, 2010. Faculty Fellow Tom Hollihan kicked off the series with his presentation, Barack Obama and the Debate on Health Care Reform: Dialogic Argument vs. the Politics of Resistance. Hollihan explained that Obama's campaign message was that of hope and change, but not just in a changing of the presidential office but "hope that new leadership could reinvigorate government. Change was the most repeated part of the Obama campaign. Not……
Communication Leadership Open Forum: Bill Boyarsky and Tom Hollihan
Join Geoffrey Cowan, USC Annenberg Professor and director of the Center on Communication Leadership & Policy for a discussion on current events, including media coverage of the debate on health care reform and the history and future of the Los Angeles Times. Special guests include veteran editor and author Bill Boyarsky, author of the new book Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times and communication professor Tom Hollihan, author of Uncivil Wars: Political Campaigns in a Media Age. Book signing follows discussion. Lunch will be served. RSVP requested. To RSVP, click here. 12 noon. Annenberg Research Park's Kerckhoff Hall, 734……