Unnecessary Roughness – Webinar on Images of Football

FYI … this looks pretty cool.

Date: Sunday, January 27th

Time: at 1pm EST/10am PST for 90 minutes

Title: “Unnecessary Roughness: Football as a Reflection of American Culture in News Photos and Media Images”: Held the Sunday before the Super Bowl, the webinar will focus on a broad range of themes, including power and violence, commercialism, patriotism, militarism and gender roles.

Where: TUNE IN TO THE LIVE BROADCAST: The BagNewsSalon will be broadcast live, via Google HangOut, on the BagNews website. Just come to this blog post http://bit.ly/BagSalonFootball at 1 pm EST.

Viewer Engagement: We’ll also be encouraging viewer involvement via Twitter. @BagNewsNotes Hashtag: #BagSalon

Facebook Invite: http://www.facebook.com/events/493353160708470/

More info: http://bit.ly/BagSalonFootball

Moderator:
Michael Butterworth, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Bowling Green State University.
Panelists:
Dan Grano: Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.
Marie Hardin: Professor and Associate Dean in the College of Communications at Penn State University. Marie is also Associate Director of the Curley Center for Sports Journalism.
Ken Jarecke: photojournalist and author of Husker Game Day 2010.
Tom Oates: Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication and the Department of American Studies at the University of Iowa.
Scott Strazzante: Pulitzer prize winning photojournalist for the Chicago Tribune.
Host: Michael Shaw, Publisher, BagNewsNotes. Producer: Teresa Mahoney.