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Student Voice – Objectivity and Fairness Reflection – Hagan Hord
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Evan Ringel, an assistant professor of media law at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C. and a member of the Overby Center panel of experts, discusses the First Amendment implications in the landmark multistate settlement. The settlement was to resolve claims that the company had endangered teens by intentionally creating and implementing addictive design features. Ringel writes that the First Amendment places significant limits on direct government regulation of online expression.
R.J. Morgan, an instructional associate professor in the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi and director of the Mississippi Scholastic Press Association, discusses the film “Teenage Wasteland” and the importance of high school journalism. In the early 1990s in Middletown, N.Y., a group of high school students thrown into an “Electronic English” class shot and edited a documentary film “Garbage, Gangsters and Greed” about the insidious nature of their local landfills. Now, 30 years later, a new documentary currently streaming on Netflix called “Teenage Wasteland” interviews the now-adult students from Middletown and recounts their tale.
A Robert Khayat documentary premiere will be the focus of a program on Oct. 29 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts. “The Chancellor” was produced and directed by Overby Center board member David Crews.