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This edition: A Social Media President? - James Katz

Episode Details

Original tape date: May 21, 2014. First aired: December 21, 2014.

Boston University's Feld Professor of Emerging Media James Katz assesses President Obama's use of new technology at the midpoint of his second term and the challenge of translating his campaign's successful virtual engagement into good governance.

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James E. Katz Feld Professor of Emerging Media; Director, Division of Emerging Media Studies, Boston University

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  • The Open Mind, produced and hosted weekly by Alexander Heffner, elicits guests’ insights into the challenges society faces in contemporary areas of public concern. The program's mission is to engage viewers, especially a generation of young Americans, through a thoughtful excursion into the world of ideas. In a September 2014 New York Times story, host Alexander Heffner described his goal to "interrogate ideas" rather than guests in order to further a "vision of communications and media serving the public interest." True to its roots of nonadversarial conversation, the program explores ideas of the most compelling writers, technologists, artists, practitioners of politics, policy, law and other realms of public life.

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