Guided Search: Social Media, Public Officials

Media Impact Forum Radio Active Culture will explore the intersection between the arts, culture, and media, and will focus on the impact of creative expression through media. In particular, we’ll take a close look at the connection between radio and community, and how this format continues to promote civic dialogue to the broadest audiences possible. It brings funders from across the country together with media makers and analysts to share insights about the field’s most influential projects and trends.

Social media has completely shaped the way individuals, businesses, and even governments function in the world. In the span of 15 years, platforms like Facebook and Twitter have gone from niche online communities to nearly inescapable presences in our everyday lives.

With such rapid change, the world as we know it has had to adapt to the challenges that social media has presented — problems like privacy issues, the rampant spread of false information, and the sometimes jarring use by groups like ISIS. 

Imagine . . . You were in charge and it was your job to bring peace to the world. What would you do?

SUKHISHILI has performed for fifty million people in eighty-eight countries on five continents. It was a headline attraction with New York City Ballet for the George Balanchine Centennial. It has previously performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Avery Fisher Hall, Madison Square Garden Albert Hall, the Rome Coliseum and La Scala where it was enthusiastically welcomed with rousing ovation and a record-setting number of curtain calls.

The Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy welcomes you to its final talk of the 2015 Spring semester! Jonathan Winkler, "The Historical Roots of the Snowden Revelations"