URI lecture focuses on digital media

Anna Everett, one of the nation's leading scholars on the effects of race, ethnicity, and digital media technologies on young people, will deliver the University of Rhode Island's 13th annual lecture on multiculturalism.

The lecture will be held Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 271, Chafee Social Science Center on URI's Kingston Campus. The talk is free and open to the public.

Everett is a professor and chairwoman of film and media studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is also a member of a cohort of researchers, activists, and youths invited by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to contribute to its $50 million initiative on the effects of digital technologies changing the ways young people think, learn, work, play, network, and engage in civic life.