Panel discussion at YSU on use of social media for political protests

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown State University Black Faculty and Staff Association, Students for Social Justice, and the Northeast Ohio Automated Computing Machinery are sponsoring a panel discussion, “Using Social Media for Political Protests: Helpful or Harmful?”

The utility of social media will be addressed by the panel of scholars and activists from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday in DeBartolo Hall Auditorium at YSU.

Panelists are Alyssa Lenhoff, YSU director of journalism; Tom Oder, physics professor and Ugandan activist; David Porter, political science professor and contributor to the book “International Science and Technology Philosophy, Theory and Policy”; and Rebecca Schueller, social media and the Arab Spring researcher, and graduate of the University of Jordan. Other panelists are Jenny Jacobs, YSU student and animal and environmentalist activist, and Gary Davenport, president of the Wick Park Neighborhood Association. Both are avid users of social media.