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October 10, 2018

Who's the Bully and Who’s the Victim in Masterpiece Cakeshop?

Rhonda Gibson

Lecture Series: pockrassMemorialLecture

Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Location: Foster Auditorum, Paterno LIbrary

Free public lecture, the Robert M. Pockrass Memorial Lecture, presented by Rhonda Gibson, who is the James H. Shumaker Distinguished Associate Professor and director of the master of arts in digital communication program at the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina. Gibon's talk -- titled "Who's the Bully and Who’s the Victim in Masterpiece Cakeshop? The Battle Over Framing the Conversation About Marriage Equality vs. Religious Freedom" -- complements her research focuses on the effects of exemplification in journalism on issue perception and the effects of images of sexual minorities in the media. Her research has been published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Communication Research, Newspaper Research Journal, and Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, among other publications. She recently published the book "Same-Sex Marriage and Social Media: How Online Networks Accelerated the Marriage Equality Movement."

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