Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
A national study on the information needs of communities in a democracy needs your help.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
Kevin Martin, now a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute, talks with Steve Pearlstein about how special interests, including cable companies, hurt consumer interests and uphold the status qou at the Federal Communication Commission.
Amy Korzick Garmer
"Virtual Journalism: Inside the Virtual Newsroom of the American University in Cairo,” a documentary marking the launch of AUC’s virtual newsroom, premiered today at the Virtual Journalism Conference at the Murrow School of Journalism at Washington State University. A nice write-up of the premier and the broader project, a collaboration between Forum members Larry Pintak of the Kamal Adham Center for Journalism and Research and Dancing Ink Productions’ Joshua Fouts, appears on DIP’s blog today. Larry and Josh formed the idea for this partnership at the 2008 Aspen Institute Arab-U.S. Media Forum, held at the Dead Sea in Jordan last March.
The "Virtual Journalism" documentary lives on YouTube.
DIP's Dispatches from the Imagination Age: The Launch of a Journalistic Experiment: The Virtual News
Source: eurekadejavu.blogspot.com
Today at the Virtual Journalism Conference at the Murrow School of Communication at Washington State University (WSU), Dancing Ink Productions (DIP) is proud to premiere our latest documentary: "Virtual ...
The Communications and Society Program is holding an invitation only Communications Policy Follow-up meeting to build on the recommendations from the summer conference report, ICT: The 21st Century Transitional Initiative...
The Communications and Society Program cordially invites you to a lunchtime book talk featuring Peter F. Cowhey and Jonathan D. Aronson, authors of "Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation"...
Charlie Firestone Save te Date: We'll be hosting a book talk by Jonathan Aronson & Peter Cowhey on April 7, 12:30 p.m. at our offices on the 7th Floor, One Dupont Circle, Washington.
Charlie Firestone Aspen C&S Program congratulates Julius Genachowski, friend of the Program, on his nomination as Chairman of the FCC.
Communications and Society Program Watch live webcast of today's Knight Commission meeting in Miami.
Source: www.knightcomm.org
9:15-10:15 Discussion of Fancher DraftReactions to StructureChicago concerns/themes captured?Anything missing from overall perspective
Communications and Society Program Watch David Bollier and Charlie discuss Bollier's new book, Viral Spiral, at the Aspen Institute earlier this month.
Source: fora.tv
David Bollier discusses his book Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of their own.
Communications and Society Program Check out Walter Isaacson on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart discussing how to save newspapers.
Source: www.thedailyshow.com
Walter Isaacson thinks newspapers made a mistake by putting everything on the Internet for free.
Amy Korzick Garmer
2008 Arab-US Media Forum alumnus Joshua Fouts (together with his Danicing Ink Productions partner Rita J. King) has just released the findings from the Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds project. The report addresses the potential use of virtual worlds for digital diplomacy. It's very leading edge work -- congratulations to Josh and Rita, who are both senior fellows at the Carnegie Foundation for Ethics in International Affairs, and to their sponsor, the Richard Lounsbery Foundation. Here's the link to the report: http://dancinginkproductions.com/?page_i
And in case you missed it, on January 12th Josh & Rita co-hosted an event in Second Life (and live webcast) with the American University in Cairo's Adham Center for Journalism Training & Research (Larry Pintak, Adham's director, is another Forum alumnus), featuring US Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy James Glassman and 8 Egyptian bloggers. Great stuff!
February 5 at 9:19am · Report
January 15, 2009. The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program announced today that Kevin Martin, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 2005 to January 20, 2009, will become a Senior Fellow to the Program beginning immediately upon his departure from the Commission...
The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program has released its new report "ICT: The 21st Century Transitional Initiative." The Report calls for bold and broad measures by the new Obama Administration to promote widespread diffusion and adoption of broadband communications, promotion of new...
Charlie Firestone
So sorry we had to postpone our follow up meeting to our Communications Policy Conference from last summer. The Obama transition folks just cannot come to events like this, so it did not seem worthwhiile to hold the conference next week. We will release the summary soon, and the full report to follow. Stay tuned.
Charlie Firestone
December 3, 2008 at 7:58pm · Report
The Communications and Society Program is working with the National Association of Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), Temple University’s Media Education Lab, and the Independent Film Channel (IFC) to produce a series of town hall meetings about media literacy...
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Read Charlie Firestone's blog in the Huffington Post and join the discussion!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-m-
From Charlie:
"This is an op ed on a concept I've been playing with -- that we need to think more about the responsibilities of citizenship, not just rights. And those responsibilities should include the need to be literate in a number of areas -- namely, digital literacy, news, civic, financial, environmental and cultural literacy. I'd like to develop this more in the months and years ahead."
October 15, 2008 at 2:56pm · Report
The 23rd Annual Conference on Communications Policy, held in Aspen, Colorado on August 20-23, 2008 had as its theme "Leveraging Communications: ICT as Economic Stimulus". The report will be released this winter...
Dead Sea Scrolling explores the impact of new media in spanning the cultural and informational divides between the Arab and American worlds...
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