FB Live event on telling race-related stories

Professors Courtney Cogburn and Desmond Patton are going LIVE on CSSW’s Facebook page to talk about the projects they are doing with the help of two Magic Grants from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation. Professor Cogburn’s project took place this past year. she will report on what it was like to create a visceral experience with racism using Virtual Reality. Professor Patton will describe the projet hel plans to begin in the fall, furthering his data analysis of scoial media exchanges among youth in communities with high rates of gang violence, in hopes of providing an alternative narrative.

Register at goo.gl/vof9hf and we will email you with the link as soon as the presentation begins. Or simply join us at noon at facebook.com/columbiassw.