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Tuesday, March 26, 11 a.m. Online

Restoring Civic Health in a Culture of Distance

This live webinar will explore the problem of distance in our digital lives and focus on how we can move to restore civic health through prioritizing restorative principles of proximity, care and agency.

Today we live in a culture of distance. In our homes, in our schools, in our places of work, and in our public spaces, we’ve inserted technologies to cultivate distance between us and those people, places and ideas around us. We’ve normalized distance as a natural outcome of our mediated lifestyles. Our technologies connect us to information, to ideas, and to people, albeit outside of our immediate proximity and removed from our physical communities. This type of distance is subtle but cumulative. It refers to the losses accrued from replacing the everyday human movements and signals that we negotiate with the glow of screens. This talk will explore the problem of distance in our digital lives and focus on how we can move to restore civic health through prioritizing restorative principles of proximity, care and agency.

This live webinar is compliments of Henry Schein, Northwell Health and St. Joseph’s University.  Reserve now.

Time commitment: Up to one hour. Questions are encouraged.

ABOUT OUR FEATURED EXPERT

Paul Mihailidis is a civic media and journalism professor and Special Advisor to the Provost at Emerson College in Boston, MA.

He is the founding program director of the MA in Media Design, Senior Fellow of the Emerson Engagement Lab, and faculty chair and director of the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change.

Dr. Mihailidis has published eight books and over 80 articles and book chapters on the intersection of media literacy, civic media and engagement in digital culture.

Dr. Mihailidis holds a Ph.D. from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park, an MPhil from Stirling University, and a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

This online event series is made possible by Henry Schein, St. Joseph's University and Northwell Health

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