[imc-tc-network] Tomorrow: Robert Jensen, on Journalism and Democracy, Murphy Hall

[Eric Angell]

Professor Robert Jensen on “Journalism’s Failures and the Consequences for
Democracy”

Wed., Oct. 18, 3pm
100 Murphy Hall
University of Minnesota

Free of charge and open to the public

ROBERT JENSEN is associate professor of journalism at the University of
Texas at Austin and a graduate of the University of Minnesota’s School of
Journalism and Mass Communication (Ph.D. ‘92). Prior to his academic
career, he worked as a professional journalist for a decade. In his
research, Jensen draws on a variety of critical approaches to media and
power. Much of his work has focused on pornography and the radical
feminist critique of sexuality and men’s violence. In more recent work, he
has addressed questions of race through a critique of white privilege and
institutionalized racism.

Jensen is the author of The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism
and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005) and numerous other works on media,
power, privilege, and racism.

Professor Jensen’s talk is co-sponsored by the School of Journalism and
Mass Communication, the Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies,
and the Department of Chicana/o Studies. For more information, contact
Rich Martinez at 612-624-6005 or remartin (at) umn.edu