Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of the Berkman Center, is moderating a panel on the future of news at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. The panelists were given two minutes and gave us some soundbites.
Paul Steiger is Editor-in-Chief of ProPublica, a non profit with 25 journalists created to fill the gap left by the shrinking newsrooms in […]
Archive for March, 2008
Do you Know Where Your News Is? Predictions for 2013 by Media Experts:
Published March 28th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Media, Berkman, Talks and Conferences. 0 CommentsMedia Re:public Forum Panel on Participatory Media: Defining Success, Measuring Impact
Published March 28th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Media, Berkman, Talks and Conferences. 0 CommentsMargaret Duffy is a Professor from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and she is speaking at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. She leads a Citizen Media Participation project to create a taxonomy of news categories and get a sense of the state of citizen media via sampling news across the nation. They are interested […]
John Kelly: Parsing the Political Blogosphere
Published March 28th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Media, Berkman, Statistics, Talks and Conferences. 1 CommentJohn Kelly is a doctoral student a Columbia’s School of Communications, a startup founder (Morningside Analytics), as well as doing collaborative work with Berkman. He’s speaking Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum.
Kelly says he takes an ecosystem approach to studying the blogosphere since he objects to dividing research on society into cases and variables because it is […]
David Weinberger: How new technologies and behaviors are changing the news
Published March 28th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Technology, Media, Berkman, Talks and Conferences. 0 CommentsDavid Weinberger is a fellow and colleague of mine at the Berkman Center and is at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum discussing the difference the web is making to journalism: “what’s different about the web when it comes to media and journalism?”
Weinberger is concerned with how we frame this question. He prefers ‘ecosystem’ rather than ‘virtue […]
Robert Suro: Defining the qualities of information our democracy needs
Published March 28th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Technology, Media, Berkman and Conferences. 0 CommentsRobert Suro is a professor of journalism at USC and spoke today at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum. His talk concerns journalism’s role in democratic processes and he draws two distinctions in how we think about journalism that often get conflated: journalism is a business but also a social actor. he points out that when main […]
Richard Sambrook at the Media Re:public Forum
Published March 27th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Technology, Media, Berkman and Conferences. 0 CommentsI’m at Berkman’s Media Re:public Forum and Richard Sambrook, director of Global News at the BBC is giving the first talk. He is something of a technological visionary and his primary concern is with how technology is affecting the ability of, not only traditional media but anyone, to set the international news agenda.
The model that […]
A Test of the Internet’s Free Speech Promise: China and Tibet
Published March 25th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Developing world, Media and Human Rights. 0 CommentsI haven’t seen any evidence that the internet was an important facilitator of the organization of the protests in Tibet, but citizen reporting on the events in Lhasa beginning March 10 made heavy use of the internet. The interesting question is whether perspectives other than the official view are getting through to discussions inside China. […]
Book Review: “Development as Freedom” by Amartya Sen
Published March 18th, 2008 in Book Reviews, Developing world, Statistics, Human Rights and Economics. 0 CommentsWhat is a developed country? According to Sen, development should be measured by how much freedom a country has since without freedom people cannot make the choices that allow them to help themselves and others. He defines freedom as an interdependent bundle of:
1) political freedom and civil rights,
2) economic freedom including opportunities to get credit,
3) […]
Media Re:public Forum: Los Angeles March 27-28
Published March 18th, 2008 in Internet and Democracy, Media and Berkman. 0 CommentsBerkman’s Media Re:public project is bringing people together to discuss the state of participatory media within the current information environment, called Media Re:public Forum. I’m going to be there!
Crossposted on I&D Blog
Implementing a Human Rights Policy at the World Bank
Published March 17th, 2008 in Developing world, Human Rights and Talks. 0 CommentsGalit Safarty gave a talk at Harvard Law School today titled: Why Culture Matters in International Institutions: The Marginality of Human Rights at the World Bank. Sarfaty obtained her JD from Yale and is a lawyer and anthropologist. She is a visiting fellow at Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program and writing her dissertation based on […]
