“The press has done an admirable (albeit belated) job with the technical complexities of MMS’s (Minerals Management Services of the Interior Department) administrative failings. What is not being asked, and what the press needs to focus on, is whether MMS’s problems are endemic to the entire federal government.” From Nieman […]
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Voices Beyond Walls conducted its first ever 3-day Training of Trainers (ToT) course on participatory digital media and storytelling with youth at the Canaan Institute of New Pedagogy in Gaza City from June 28-30, 2010. The ToT was led by Dr. Nitin Sawhney, with assistance from Asmaa Al Ghoul, an […]
Since 2006, I have been leading a participatory media program called Voices Beyond Walls in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, with a local and international team of artists, filmmakers and educators. This summer our teams are launching a program of parallel workshops in the West Bank and Gaza, as part of […]
Science fiction media offers us a chance to envision the future of news. What images have surfaced there most frequently? Journalists of the future apparently have the same problems as journalists in the past. In a TV Sci-Fi series called Dark Angel, created by Jim Cameron in 2000, a journalist, […]
The Center for Future Civic Media is adding an Outreach Coordinator–an amazing chance to help place incredible civic media work directly into communities. Interested? Apply via the link below, or forward it along to qualified friends… Apply: http://sh.webhire.com/servlet/av/jd?ai=631&ji=2464670&sn=I Title: Outreach Coordinator Req Number: mit-00007036 Department: Media Laboratory Location(s): Cambridge MA […]