2023 Social Justice + Media Symposium

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2023 Social Justice + Media Symposium

An annual gathering to explore how media practices and pedagogies can support equity, justice, and positive social change in daily life.

By Engagement Lab

When and where

Date and time

Friday, March 31 · 10am - 4pm PDT

Location

Nevada State College 1300 Nevada State Drive Henderson, NV 89002

About this event

  • 6 hours
  • Mobile eTicket

The Social Justice + Media Symposium is an annual gathering for students, faculty, and stakeholders from across the country to explore how media practices and pedagogies can support equity, justice, and positive social change in daily life. Founded and coordinated by the Engagement Lab at Emerson College in Boston, MA, the 2023 Social Justice + Media Symposium will be hosted by Nevada State College and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Taking place on March 31, 2023, this year’s Symposium will interrogate the concept of Spectacle, in the digital environments that drive our daily information routines, and in the physical environments of Las Vegas, where spectacle exists all around us. The symposium will explore the ideas of visibility and invisibility, of inequity and power, and of agency and voice, in the context of spectacle culture and its impact on civic and democratic futures.

About the organizer

Organized by
Engagement Lab

The Engagement Lab at Emerson College is an applied research and design lab that investigates and creates media and technology to reduce disparities in civic participation. We work with partners to co-design solutions to the most pressing problems in democracy and governance, including participation gaps, gender or racial discrimination, lack of basic media literacies, youth exclusion, and gaps in public health practices.