{"id":9065,"date":"2017-05-29T12:44:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T17:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/?p=9065"},"modified":"2017-11-22T12:45:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T17:45:26","slug":"eu-views-robert-socha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/2017\/05\/29\/eu-views-robert-socha\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Views: Robert Socha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>Robert Socha<br \/>\n<strong>Nationality:<\/strong>\u00a0Polish<br \/>\n<strong>Occupation(s):<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Journalist, deputy executive producer for TV documentary programs at TVN Poland.<br \/>\n<strong>Connection to Europe:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>As an International Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Robert Socha studies the transition of linear TV broadcasters to the digital world. His research seeks to compare European and U.S. developments in video on demand, virtual reality, and video storytelling.<\/p>\n<p><em>Date of interview: April, 3, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/328902498&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Robert Socha focused on the growing income gap in Europe and the United States, and the disconnection between elites and average citizens. Talking about his childhood in communist Poland, Socha expressed his love for the democratic, borderless European project and his pride in his home country advancing since the fall of the Iron Curtain. He admitted, \u201cthe EU is not a perfect place \u2013 it is often too bureaucratic, lacks vision, too distant to ordinary people,\u201d but ended the conversation by explaining his belief that European identity is based upon a shared past, but that the continent\u2019s complicated history has taught Europeans the necessity of communication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name:\u00a0Robert Socha Nationality:\u00a0Polish Occupation(s):\u00a0Journalist, deputy executive producer for TV documentary programs at TVN Poland. Connection to Europe:\u00a0As an International Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Robert Socha studies the transition of linear TV broadcasters to the digital world. His research seeks to compare European and U.S. developments in video on demand, virtual reality, and video storytelling. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14061,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9066,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions\/9066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}