I’m here at the Global Voices Summit in Budapest and I just listened to a panel on Rising Voices, a group within Global Voices dedicated to supporting the efforts of people traditionally underrepresented in citizen media. (See their trailer here). At the end of the panel, the question was asked ‘how can we help?’ The […]
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Published June 28th, 2008 in Developing world, Technology, Media and Conferences. 0 CommentsAmartya Sen at the Aurora Forum at Stanford University: Global Solidarity, Human Rights, and the End of Poverty
Published April 5th, 2008 in Developing world, Human Rights, Talks, Economics and Conferences. 0 CommentsThis is a one day conference to commemorate Martin Luther King’s “The Other America” in his 1967 speech at Stanford, and heed that speech’s call to create a more just world.
Mark Gonnerman, director of the Aurora Forum introduces the event by noting that economic justice is the main theme of King’s legacy. He references King’s […]
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 CommentsJonathan 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 […]
Media 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 […]
