“Please Let Me Testify!” Maryland Faculty Collective Bargaining Hearings

Oral Testimony Submitted to the Maryland Senate Finance Committee By [Jared Ball, Dr.] SB 247 State Personnel – Collective Bargaining – Faculty, Part-Time Faculty, and Graduate Assistants February 16, 2023 FAVORABLE Greetings to those gathered. My name is Jared Ball and I am currently a tenured full professor at Morgan State University where I have…

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10th Anniversary Debate Over Media Reform with Robert McChesney

As a follow up and response to his keynote address on the state of mass media and journalism Robert McChesney sat down this morning with Jared Ball for a discussion of that address.  This all was part of the Center for American and World Cultures Robert E. Strippel Memorial at Miami University (OH).  McChesney and Ball discussed differences of historical interpretation, societal…

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Tech and the New Double Consciousness

#Buffalo #Technology #Media (0:00) stream start(4:43) Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Demonstrates the Shortcomings of Buffalo Analyses(1:05:18) Dr. Todd Steven Burroughs reviews recent (and flawed) Media and Political Scholarship particularly that of Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster. American Racism and the Buffalo Shooting By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylorhttps://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/american-racism-and-the-buffalo-massacre Book Review: The New ‘Double Consciousness?’ New Books Explore Technology’s Pluses…

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