Encounters with Partisan Media: Toward the 2022 Midterm Elections 

The SCMS Activist and Revolutionary Film and Media Special Interest Group, along with the SIGS on Media, Science, and Technology, and Sound and Music Studies, would like to invite members to attend a zoom roundtable on partisan “heated” media this September 10th at 11am PST. This panel aims to help us prepare for the Midterms and serve as a pitch for a new transdisciplinary volume, Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision (with Bloomsbury). 

 

The multidisciplinary panel, drawing from scholars in music, media studies, and neuroscience, as well as industry practitioners, will explore how these political texts operate within larger social contexts, how they work audiovisually, how they might encourage us to talk with people who hold different political views, and how to take action. Each presenter will speak for 15 minutes with some Q&A, and then the floor will be open for discussion. Below is a bit more about the roundtable and our presenters. 

 

September 10th 11 am PST:  

"News Bias and Affective Content on Social Media” 

Brian Knutson – Stanford Department of Neuroscience   

https://stanford.edu/~knutson/    

  

"The Illiberalism of Fox News: Theorizing nationalism and populism through Tucker Carlson Tonight"   

Reece Peck - College of Staten Island Department of Media Culture
https://www.csi.cuny.edu/campus-directory/reece-peck   

   

"Intensified Audiovisuality in 2022 Political Ads"   

Carol Vernallis - Stanford Department of Music   

https://www.amazon.com/Carol-Vernallis/e/B001HOMUBK%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share 

https://music.stanford.edu/people/carol-vernallis  

  

Break  

 

September 10th 1 pm PST:  

"COVID-19 & Transnational Misinformation: Comparing Right-Wing Media Across the U.S.-Mexico Border” 

Harry Simon Salazar – Muhlenberg College Department of Media and Communication https://www.muhlenberg.edu/academics/mediacom/facultystaff/harrylsimonsalazar/ 

https://harrysimonsalazar.net/  

 

“Hearing the Intimate Politics of Extremism: Music, Activism, and Reproductive Rights” 

Dana Gorzelany-Mostak - Georgia College  

https://www.gcsu.edu/artsandsciences/music/faculty-staff-department-of-music  

https://gcsu.academia.edu/DanaGorzelanyMostak/CurriculumVitae  

  

“Neurocognition and Ideology: From Visual Biases to Polarization”
Leor Zmigrod - Cambridge University - Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute 
 

https://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?lz343  

https://www.leorzmigrod.com/ 

 

Zoom link https://stanford.zoom.us/j/97072209796?pwd=NXpTS0JHOHo0VXBtOXY0NndnTTBKdz09 

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Time: Sep 10, 2022, 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) 

 

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