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X-WR-CALNAME:Entertainment\, Information\, and Addiction: Our New Digital\,
  Social World
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DTSTART:20190413T233000Z
DTEND:20190414T003000Z
DESCRIPTION:Social media\, digital entertainment\, online shopping\, and ap
 ps of all kinds make our lives easier and more fun. They also connect us a
 nd create new hybrid cultures in ways that were never imagined even a deca
 de ago. But how much is too much? And what is the cost? This extensive and
  esteemed panel will discuss our relationships with our beloved digital de
 vices\, including ethical implications and issues with addiction. \n\nPANE
 LISTS\n\nAli E. Abbas is professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering a
 nd Public Policy at USC\, where he also serves as the Director of the USC 
 Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making. The recipient of 
 multiple awards from the National Science Foundation\, Abbas is author of 
 Foundations of Multiattribute Utility (2018) and co-author of Foundations 
 of Decision Analysis. (2015). He is also editor of the forthcoming Next Ge
 neration Ethics and editor\, associate editor\, and guest editor of a wide
  range of journals and books.\n\nJulie Albright is a digital sociologist a
 nd lecturer in the departments of Applied Psychology and Engineering at US
 C who has spent her career thinking about the digital transformation of so
 ciety. She is a sought-after keynote speaker\, expert\, and author whose n
 ew book\, Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the
  American Dream (2018)\, explores how digital natives are “untethering
 ” from traditional ways of doing things\, while hyper-attached to their 
 devices and social media.\n\nDavid Craig is a clinical associate professor
  at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and a Fellow
  at the Peabody Media Center. The veteran media producer and executive has
  been nominated for multiple Emmy Awards and is responsible for over 30 cr
 itically acclaimed films\, TV programs\, and stage productions. He is the 
 co-author of Social Media Entertainment: The New Intersection of Hollywood
  and Silicon Valley (2019).\n\nVarun Soni (moderator) is the Dean of Relig
 ious Life and the Vice Provost of Campus Wellness and Crisis Intervention 
 at USC\, where he teaches in the School of Religion and the Chan Division 
 of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy. He holds degrees in reli
 gion from Tufts University\, Harvard University\, UC Santa Barbara\, and t
 he University of Cape Town\, as well as a law degree from the UCLA School 
 of Law.
GEO:34.020804;-118.287064
LOCATION:Wallis Annenberg Hall (ANN)
SUMMARY:Entertainment\, Information\, and Addiction: Our New Digital\, Soci
 al World
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 addiction_our_new_digital_social_world
CATEGORIES:Lecture / Talk / Workshop
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