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SUMMARY:Nora Loreto on Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:This winter, the Atlantic Human Rights Centre, St. Thomas University’s Human Rights Program, St. Thomas University’s Journalism and Communications Department, NB Media Co-op and RAVEN invite the public to the Human Rights & the Media Lecture Series.\n\n\nNora Loreto, writer and editor of the Canadian Association of Labour Media (CALM), will be kicking off the first lecture in the Human Rights & the Media Lecture Series on Tuesday, January 18 at 5:30pm (Atlantic time) by Zoom.\n\nLoreto will be speaking on her new book, Spin Doctors: How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic, by Zoom.Register for the Zoom link here:https://zoom.us/…/tJErdOCpqDoqH9CYmTb7IyqXUBUK2mV7HubY\n\nAbout Spin Doctors from Fernwood:\n\n\n“As Canada was in the grips of the worst pandemic in a century, Canadian media struggled to tell the story. Newsrooms, already run on threadbare budgets, struggled to make broader connections that could allow their audience to better understand what was really happening, and why. Politicians and public health officials were mostly given the benefit of the doubt that what they said was true and that they acted in good faith.\nThis book documents each month of the first year of the pandemic and examines the issues that emerged, from racialized workers to residential care to policing. It demonstrates how politicians and uncritical media shaped the popular understanding of these issues and helped to justify the maintenance of a status quo that created the worst ravages of the crisis. Spin Doctors argues alternative ways in which Canadians should understand the big themes of the crisis and create the necessary knowledge to demand large-scale change.”\n\n\nUpcoming Lectures\n\n\n\nFebruary 1 –  Elizabeth Dubois, Associate Professor of Communications, University of Ottawa, on Political Bots: Understanding Communication Strategies Using Automation and AI.\n\n\nFebruary 8 – Erin Steuter, Professor of Sociology, Mount Allison University, on Won’t Get Fooled Again: A Graphic Guide to Fake News.\n\n \nFebruary 10 – Aditya Rao, a human rights lawyer, on Hate Speech and Human Rights in Canada: The Fight Over Section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. February 15 – Hilary Young, Professor of Law at the University of New Brunswick, on Civil Recourse for Non-Consensual Disclosure of Intimate Images.\n \nMarch 17 – Fenwick McKelvey, Assistant Professor in Information and Communication Technology Policy in the Department of Communication Studies. Talk title TBA.\n \nMarch 31 – Siti Maimunah, a rapporteur for the People’s Tribunal at COP26 in Glasgow and member of the COP26 Coalition, on telling the stories of people of the Global South affected by climate change.April 12 – Kaitlyn Layden, with the New Brunswick Coalition of Persons with Disabilties, on engaging the media to advance the rights of people with disabilities.\n \nFor more information, contact Tracy at tglynn@stu.ca.\n\n\n\n
URL:https://nbmediacoop.org/events/nora-loreto-on-spin-doctors-how-media-and-politicians-misdiagnosed-the-covid-19-pandemic/
LOCATION:Online by ZOOM link
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