Kathleen Hall Jamieson, professor of communications and director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss "Emerging Media and the path to the Oval Office" at 7:30 p.m. today.
Jamieson said the advent of the Internet and emerging media has changed not only how candidates for public office campaign, but also the very nature of politics itself. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton, John McCain, Bill Richardson, John Edwards and Barack Obama all made the trek to the Google Headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., in an effort to make known their "identification with the future," Jamieson said. She credits YouTube with expanding the range of questions in the form of personal videos and making everything searchable afterward.
Jamieson is a frequent commentator on the American campaign and election process for National Public Radio, CBS, PBS' "The NewsHour" and CNN. She is also the author, co-author or editor of 15 books, including "Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment" (Oxford, 2008) and "unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation" (Random House, 2007).
Jamieson will speak at Ball State University's Art and Journalism Building, Room 175. Hers is the first address in the campus' new David Letterman Distinguished Professional Lecture Series.
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