Your Brain on New Media

Steve Scher
04/20/2009 at 10:00 a.m.

Vlogs, blogs, and Tweets: the way we digest and interact with information has changed. But how does this change us and our perception of the world we live in? Join us as we hope to define new media, its direction, and its evolving role in how we interact as a society.

Guest(s)

Hanson Hosein is the director of the University of Washington's Master of Communication in Digital Media. He specializes in storytelling, social media strategies and business models of communication.

Howard Finberg is the director of interactive learning at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. He also manages the News University, a project that offers online training in New Media to journalists around the globe.

Alva Noe is a writer and philosopher at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a member of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the Center for New Media. For the last decade his philosophical practice has concerned perception and consciousness. His most recent book is "Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness."