Forester Lecture

Professor Dom Caristi, of Ball State University, will present a virtual Forester Lecture on Tuesday, Oct 27 at 7:00 p.m. Dr. Caristi’s lecture will be “Legal Issues of Social Media.” Of course there are many emerging legal issues, including image and text copyrights etc., but use of social media for political rhetoric has drawn keen interest and scrutiny as the election approaches.

Dom Caristi (PhD, Univ. of Iowa) is a professor of telecommunications at Ball State University. He is co-author of Communication Law  2^nd edition (2018) with William Davie. He was a Fulbright Professor in Slovenia in 1995 and in Greece in 2009 and has been a visiting professor in Italy. He has served fellowships with the Radio Television News Directors Association and the National Association of Television Program Executives. In 1998 he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Iowa Broadcasters Association. A member of the Broadcast Education Association for more than 30 years, he served on the Board of Directors from 1997-2002, including a term as its vice president. Dom is the associate director of the Digital Policy Institute and a founding member. In 2012 he received the Outstanding Faculty Member Award from Ball State.