What do you see as some of the recurring themes in the popular representation of journalism? How much do these myths change over time and how much do they remain constant? The surprising thing is that the image of the journalist hasn’t changed much throughout the centuries. In Antigone, Sophocles […]
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Get updates as they happen: follow us on Twitter at @c4fcm. From the Center @c4fcm’s Ryan O’Toole gets grant to pitch Red Ink at Innovate100 in August http://cot.ag/bDVXz3 “Local competition inspires creative use of public-private space” http://cot.ag/aok6i8 via @mitnews Hey @hockendougal and @amerigo: RT @ryan_thornburg: Sourcemap.org is the Ushahidi of […]
If USC’s Nonny de La Pena is exploring new tools and platforms that will shape the future of journalism, another of my new Annenberg colleagues, Joe Saltzman, is using new media tools to make it easier for us to research journalism’s history. Specifically, Saltzman has launched a data base which […]
You are especially interested in issues of bodily presence and affective immediacy that arise in response to immersive environments, qualities which make our experiences in such worlds expecially intense and memorable. Yet there’s a long tradition of science fiction writing which worries about the use of such devices for propaganda […]
Please to enjoy the visual fruits of last week’s Future of News and Civic Media conference plenaries. Below–available for viewing, downloading, and reusing–are the three plenary videos… Announcement of the 2010 Knight News Challenge winners Available for download at MIT TechTV. “Crowd Building” with Gabriella Coleman and Karim Lakhani Available […]