I was able to spend 14 March at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, to deliver their Windsor Lecture for the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences (soon to be called the School of Information Sciences). I spoke on my conception of a 5th Estate, as a perspective on power shifts, bringing in some new ideas on my work in this area, along with a new case study developing around the Flint Water Crisis. Flint raises issues about the role of the 4th (the press) as well as the 5th Estate, and this case certainly struck a chord with the […]