Sarah Banet-Weiser Lecture: "Networked Misogyny"

Please Join us for a lecture by Sarah Banet-Weiser, Director of USC's Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, who will give a talk based on her current book in progress: "Networked Misogyny: Gender, Media, and Social Change."

Sarah Banet-Weiser is author of Authentic™: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture (New York University Press, 2012) , Kids Rule! Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship (Duke University Press, 2007), The Most Beautiful Girl in the World: Beauty Pageants and National Identity (University of California Press, 1999) and co-editor of Commodity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times (New York University Press), and Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting, co-edited with Cynthia Chris and Anthony Freitas (New York University Press, 2007). Prof. Banet-Weiser's teaching and research interests include youth culture, consumer culture, citizenship and national identity, feminist theory, and race and the media.