Abundance at Scale with Derek Thompson
- When
- Thursday, November 12, 20264:00 PM ESTAdd to calendarGoogle Calendar
- Where
- Yawkey Athletics Center Murray RoomYawkey Centre, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467Open in Maps
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About
Derek Thompson is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He is also the author of the books Hit Makers and On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity and Abundance, which he co-wrote with Ezra Klein. He is the host of the podcast Plain English. Here on The Heights, Thompson will discuss “Abundance at Scale.”
Derek Thompson
Derek Thompson is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He is also the author of the books Hit Makers and On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity and Abundance, which he co-wrote with Ezra Klein. He is the host of the podcast Plain English. Here on The Heights, Thompson will discuss “Abundance at Scale.”
Michael Serazio
Michael Serazio is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication whose research and teaching interests include media production, advertising, popular culture, political communication, and new media. His first book, Your Ad Here: The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing (NYU Press, 2013), investigates the integration of brands into entertainment content, social patterns, and digital platforms.
His scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of Communication, the International Journal of Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, the Journal of Consumer Culture, Communication Culture & Critique, and Television & New Media, among other journals.
Serazio received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication. He also holds a B.A. in Communication from the University of San Francisco and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. A former staff writer for the Houston Press, an alternative newsweekly, his reporting was recognized as a finalist for the Livingston Awards and he has continued to write essays on media and culture for The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Nation, and Salon. He also serves on the editorial board for the National Seminar of Jesuit Higher Education, which publishes Conversations magazine.
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