Award-winning filmmaker and professor at Hunter College, Tami Gold, will deliver the closing keynote address at the Global Media Ethics Conference on Saturday, March 16th at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. The conference is a two-day event featuring filmmakers, artists, scholars, journalists and media professionals. Participants will discuss central ethical issues of privacy, surveillance, minority representation and civic responsibility in a diverse and global new media environment.

Through panel presentations, screenings, and discussion groups, Global Media: Ethics of Representation will encourage in-depth discourses on these issues with some of today’s leading scholars, filmmakers, thinkers, and ethicists.
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Now Available: The Fight over Digital Rights

Hot off the presses at Cambridge University Press, it’s The Fight over Digital Rights: The Politics of Copyright and Technology, by Bill D. Herman.

About the Book
In the political fight over copyright, internet advocacy has reshaped the playing field. This was shown most dramatically in the 2012 “SOPA blackout,” when the largest online protest in history stopped two copyright bills in their tracks. For those not already familiar with the debate, this protest seemingly came out of nowhere, yet it was the culmination of an intellectual and political evolution more than a decade in the making.
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