Joan Ferrini-Mundy, president of the University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias, was quoted in the Bangor Daily News editorial “There is value in education beyond high school, no matter where you go to school.” “We need people to be lifelong learners,” said Ferrini-Mundy. The goal is for higher education “to suit a […]
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World Politics Review listed Michael Socolow’s “The Trouble with TikTok” piece in its “Top Reads on China” roundup. WPR newsletter and engagement editor Benjamin Wilhelm wrote that Socolow, a University of Maine associate professor of communication and journalism, took American journalists to task for their uncritical coverage of TikTok — and for their use of […]
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Politico published Michael Socolow’s piece “The Trouble with TikTok: Journalists should not be promoting a platform with a documented history of political censorship.” While the quirky videos may seem relatively harmless, the University of Maine associate professor wrote that TikTok “relies on its users’ ignorance of its origins and practices. How many teens, or journalists, […]
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The Washington Post published an opinion piece by Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine. The piece is titled “Why boxing disappeared after the Rumble in the Jungle — and why football could, too.”
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Robyn Young, a graduate student at the University of Maine and research assistant at Dartmouth College, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “Expanded financial literacy will boost policies aimed at helping working Maine families.” Young is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together […]
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Liz Theriault, a fourth-year journalism and political science student at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “Student activism is imperative for societal and political change.” Theriault is the communications intern for the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the country […]
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The Conversation published an opinion piece by Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine. The piece is titled “Misinformation, evasion and the informational problem of live TV interviews.” Houston Chronicle and The Telegraph of Illinois also carried the article.
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Charles Scontras, a historian and research associate at the University of Maine’s Bureau of Labor Education, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Planting the seeds of labor reform.”
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Researchers with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute will take part in a sold-out conversation Sept. 24 hosted by the Bangor Daily News. Maine’s upcoming bicentennial has the BDN editorial board thinking about how the state’s climate has changed in the past 200 years, and what the next 200 years could look like, according […]
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Ms. Magazine published an opinion piece by Amy Blackstone, a professor of sociology at the University of Maine. The piece was titled, “Boston’s ‘Straight Pride’ Parade Showed Us Where Nationalism and Fertility Panic Collide.”
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