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Dean Brad Hamm and alumnus David Krane, a partner at Google Ventures, will connect the state of news today to both the past and the future during the Forum on Visual Media in Tokyo Friday.

Sponsored by Hakuoh University, the forum will emphasize new media, journalism and social media. IU and the Communications University of China are partners in the event.

Hamm will speak in person while Krane, BAJ’94, will appear on video to address the 200 or so attendees, mostly academic and media leaders.

The dean said he plans to draw comparisons between the U.S. journalism industry’s present-day challenges and those of the 1930s, when the introduction of radio prompted some of the same debates. For example, many feared radio would erode newspaper ad revenue. Media struggled to determine how to charge for content when news and entertainment now was broadcast over the air, free to anyone with a radio. And, journalists had to learn to work across several media platforms as some made the shift to radio.

“Even the financial situation of today’s recession parallels the Depression of the 1930s,” said Hamm, whose research interest is journalism history.

In the three-minute video, Krane turns his attention to how technology and journalism have changed the way people consume information. He says “almost anyone can be a journalist today. We see examples literally every hour” of information shared not on TV networks but through the Internet.

“Some of the traditional techniques of liberal arts, such as narrative, writing, communication, are being compounded by new technology, new media and applied computing," says Krane, one of Google’s first 100 employees and former director of global communications and public affairs. “The sum of these two pieces yields a very powerful change.”

Social media is fast becoming the standard way information is discovered and shared, he says, and this offers many opportunities for innovation. Traditional media are using social media in many ways, and the introduction of new devices will expand the ways social media affects consumers, he says.

Hakuoh University is organizing the forum, and invited Hamm and Krane because of its connections to IUPUI’s Indiana Center for Intercultural Communication. Hakuoh and ICIC have had an international exchange agreement since 2005, with several Japanese students visiting the Indianapolis campus over the years.

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