Academics in the Media Landscape: The Role of Scholar-Columnist-Bloggers

When:	Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Time:	11:30 am — 12:45 pm
Location:	Richcraft Hall, Second Floor Conference Rooms
Audience:	Carleton Community, Current Students, Faculty
Cost:	Free

This panel is a part of the Visions for Canada 2042 Conference. You can learn more about the conference and register to attend by visiting the conference webpage.

This roundtable will discuss the implications of embedding scholarly voices in Canadian media for shaping public attitudes around political and social issues. What does it mean to the world of journalism when academics start column-writing or blogging? How does the dialogue change when academics can craft the conversation directly, instead of having their ideas being mediated and interpreted by journalists? The roundtable will brings together six scholars from several disciplines who are active as columnists or bloggers in Canadian media and beyond.

Presenters:

• Stephanie Carvin is an Assistant Professor in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. She teaches and researches in the areas of international affairs, domestic and international security, and critical infrastructure protection. Carvin also maintains a public profile, contributing to greater public debates about international politics and affairs through both blog posts and journalistic pieces.
• Hayden King is Pottawatomi and Ojibwe from Beausoleil First Nation, and a PhD candidate (ABD) at McMaster University. His research interests are related to land and resource management (particularly in the Canadian North) and Anishinaabe political economy; he has co-authored and co-edited two books, and published several articles in these areas. Hayden is also a noted Indigenous public intellectual in Canada, and appears frequently in the media speaking on Indigenous issues.
• Stephen M. Saideman is currently Professor and Paterson Chair in International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. He specializes in the international relations of intervention. In addition to his extensive academic writing, Saideman maintains his own blog, contributes to several others, as well as tweets regularly on issues related to international relations, conflict, and politics. He also appears frequently in the media to discuss these same issues.
• Mira Sucharov specializes in psychological and identity approaches to international relations, Israeli-Palestinian relations, and Diaspora Jewish politics. She is currently Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. Sucharov is committed to contributing to public debates and knowledge mobilization through political opinion writing and newspaper columns. In particular, she has reoccurring columns in Haaretz, The Jewish Daily Forward, and the Canadian Jewish News.
• Dwayne Winseck is a Professor at the School of Journalism and Communications at Carleton University. In addition to his scholarly research on the political economy of communication and media, Winseck, maintains a well-regarded blog, Mediamorphis, and writes a bi-weekly column for The Globe and Mail. His research reflects his commitment to public scholarship through media, as he often analyzes issues related to media activist groups, media ownership, national and international regulatory experts and bodies, and how these groups influence the flow of information.
• Frances Woolley is Professor of Economics at Carleton University and President Elect and Conference Organizer for the Canadian Economics Association. Her research centers on public policy, families, family decision-making modeling, and feminist economics. Woolley also has an on-going commitment to using this research, and economic theory more generally, to explain everyday experience in both her academic writings and her public blog.