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Coming Up On Connections: Friday, October 14th

JCC

First hour: Feeding the trolls

Second hour: Guns and religion take the stage

Don't feed the trolls? Social media can be ugly. This year, actor Leslie Jones quit Twitter until it went after her tormentors. There have been calls for more stringent policing. And The Atlantic Monthly's new cover story is about what happens when the trolls are ISIS, which uses social media to spread its terrible ideology. Our guests come from the upcoming Upstate Social Sessions in Rochester, where handling trolls is just one of many discussions on the agenda. We'll talk trolls, and preview other themes as well. Our guests:

  • Leah Stacy, conference organizer, and editor-in-chief and co-founder of Boomtown Table
  • Steve Carter, conference organizer and co-founder of Explore Rochester
  • Arien Rozelle, visiting assistant professor at St. John Fisher College
  • Rochelle Bilow, social media manager at Pinckney Hugo in Syracuse

Then, a new play looks at what might happen if a conservative Republican leader changed his mind about God and guns. "Church and State" imagines a Newtown-like mass shooting, in which a Senator's children survived. His views on God, and on gun rights, immediately shift. This comes as a problem for his wife, a devoutly religious woman who favors no restrictions on guns, despite the massacre at her children's school. And what would voters say? Our guests:

  • Jason Odell Williams, playwright, Church and State
  • Ralph Meranto, artistic director, JCC CenterStage
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Evan Dawson is the host of "Connections with Evan Dawson." He joined WXXI in January 2014 after working at 13WHAM-TV, where he served as morning news anchor. He was hired as a reporter for 13WHAM-TV in 2003 before being promoted to anchor in 2007.