Digital Media, Journalism, Media Literacy
Kristy Roschke is an expert in media literacy. Her work focuses on helping people find new ways of understanding and interacting with news information. Roschke is the managing director of the News Co/Lab at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication The Lab works to advance media literacy through journalism, education and technology. Through existing research and partnerships, the Lab experiments with new ways to increase public understanding of how news works - helping people better find, understand, act upon and create credible news and information, and to share it with integrity. Roschke has taught journalism, digital media production and media literacy courses at the high school and university level for 15 years.
Executive Director, American Indian Policy Institute
Arizona State University (ASU)Art History, Digital Media, Telecommunications
As a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, Traci Morris is an expert in federal Indian policy, telecommunications and digital culture. Morris has worked with Native American nations, Tribal businesses, Native American non-profits and has advocated for digital inclusion at the Federal Communications Commission and on Capitol Hill. Morris is the Executive Director of the American Indian Policy Institute. Under her leadership, the AIPI has grown and diversified its service to Indian Country providing policy analysis, tribally driven research, and economic development capacity building and working with such Indian Country partners as NAFOA, AISES and the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative. Morris鈥檚 research and publications on Native American media and the digital divide are focused on Internet use, digital inclusion, network neutrality, digital and new media curriculums and development of broadband networks in Indian Country.
Research Professor, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Arizona State University (ASU)Digital Media, Journalism, Media, Newspapers
Andrew Heyward is an expert in media, media landscape and digital content. He serves as a research professor for TV News at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. In addition to his work at ASU, Heyward serves as a visiting scholar at the laboratory for social machines at MIT, where he is working on artificial intelligence tools to strengthen local journalism. Prior to his position at the Cronkite School, Heyward had a long career in broadcast news, mostly at CBS, where he became an adviser to media companies, helping them develop innovative digital content, services and strategy.
Associate Professor of Digital Media, Humanities, Communication, Culture, and Media, PEC Tech Forward/IPEC Director
Michigan Technological UniversityCommunication, Culture, Digital Media, Humanities
Dr. Hristova鈥檚 research examines algorithmic and digital media cultures. She studies the intersection of technology and culture in relation the context of photography, surveillance, and social movements. Stefka serves as the Director of the Communication, Culture, & Media Undergraduate Program and teaches in the Rhetoric, Theory, and Culture Graduate Program.