Lecture looks at media effects on U.S. culture in wake of Sept. 11

How the American media have, since 9/11, caused American culture to “turn within,” re-energizing deeply set patterns of jingoism, narcissism and ethnocentrism will be explored by Susan J. Douglas, a professor of communications at the University of Michigan, in a lecture Thursday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Red Gym.

In “The Turn Within: Self-Absorption, the Media and the Fate of America,” Douglas, a feminist media theorist and critic, also will examine how the relatively new discipline of media studies incorporates the “traditional” humanities disciplines.

The lecture is sponsored by the Center for the Humanities.