Political Commentator to Address Relationship between News and Citizenship

January 17, 2012

Reading, Pa.  – Political commentator Danilo Yanich, Ph.D., will present a lecture, Wag the Dog: Citizens, News and the Media, on Monday, February 6, 2012, at 6 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in Albright’s Campus Center, South Lounge.  

Yanich will also meet with students and faculty in classes and small groups during the day.

In his public lecture, he will discuss the relationship between news and citizenship and show examples of how news is presented increasingly in a way that makes the practice of citizenship difficult to accomplish. He will also offer approaches for critical news consumption.

Yanich, associate professor and director of master’s and doctoral programs in urban affairs and public policy at the University of Delaware, is a knowledgeable political commentator who is regularly called upon by the media to offer analysis and comment on national and international affairs. Currently engaged in cutting-edge policy research on media, citizenship and public policy, he contributed a vital chapter to the newly published volume Communications Research in Action: Scholar-Activist Collaborations for a Democratic Public Sphere, which has received critical acclaim for filling a void in communication and information policy. He has also published in and serves as a reviewer for a variety of academic journals.

The Campus Center is located on the Albright College campus at 13^th & Bern Streets in Reading, Pa.  For more information or disabled assistance, please contact College Relations at 610-921-7526.

Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally ranked, private college with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. The College’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. More than half  of students have dual/individualized majors in as many as 200 different combinations annually. Albright enrolls about 1,660 undergraduates in traditional programs, another 800 adult students in accelerated degree programs, and 100 students in the master’s program in education. Albright College is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.