Two updates:
Please see the updated webcast link for Blogs, Social Media and Political
InCivility, and
Please note that Tony Spiva, Economics Professor Emeritus, will replace Joe
Carcello on the Understanding the Recession panel
Blogs, Social Media and Political InCivility
Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy in partnership with
Student Government- Government Affairs
Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit
Introduction by Dr. Mike Fitzgerald
March 23, 7:00P.M.
Toyota Auditorium
Live via webcast: http://tinyurl.com/yzkroa7
The role of blogs and social media as relates to civility in the political process.
Specifically how blogs and social media create both an opportunity for
increased participation in dialogue about policy issues and increased the
polarization of policy issues and incivility. Dr. Mike Fitzgerald will discuss the
shift from political dialogue characteristic of civil partisanship, which resulted
in bi-partisan policy, to the current political atmosphere of incivility and a lack
of cooperation. Reynolds will talk about how blogs and other forms of social
media can be both an effective and ineffective tool in debate.
Understanding the Recession: Banks, Regulations, Markets and the Economic
Outlook
Panel Session and Discussion
March 24, 6:30P.M.
Toyota Auditorium
Tony Spiva, Economics Professor Emeritus will replace Joe Carcello,
Joan Heminway, UT College of Law and
Matt Murray, Center for Business and Economic Research
Paul Fain, CFP, Knoxville News Sentinel columnist and president of Asset
Planning will moderate the session.
From regulatory issues, self interest and the markets, to bank regulations,
members of the UT faculty, each of whom has been dealing with different
aspects of the economic downturn, will offer perspectives of the economic
crisis by providing an overview of the nature and depth of the downturn and
the economic outlook for the state and nation.
Amy K. Gibson, Ph.D.
Director of Communications and Public Programming
Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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