Discussion Section Leader: Mimi Edmunds
"Journalism and the New Communications Technologies: A Force for Democracy, Dissent, or Disintegration?"The workshop led by Mimi Edmunds, Assistant Professor Journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication, focused on the power relations between people who control and own journalism and media and those who are trying to be empowered by it. She argued that distribution and disemination must occur from the bottom up.