Talk #478

Title:BLOGGERS AS PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS
Category:general
Timeslot:Fri 01:00 pm (90 minutes)
Location:ACC / 208-AB
Description:H.L. Mencken, Edmund Wilson, I.F. Stone, Germaine Greer, Gertrude Stein, Hannah Arendt all gained prominence as American public intellectuals through newspaper columns and books of collected essays. Is the Blogosphere spawning a contemporary generation of important public thinkers? Who are the ones you can't afford to miss? What are they saying?
Speaker(s):MaryAnn Johanson, Phil Plait, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Kevin Drum, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Cory Doctorow(M)