My Journalism colleagues at USC’s Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism are on the cutting edge of national and international conversations about the Future of Journalism. Our school is a site of experimentation and deliberation, sketching and testing new models, which see the emerging media environment not simply as a […]
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Ryan O’Toole talks with the San Jose Mercury News’ Chris O’Brien about “The case for oversharing” your financial data–at least when it’s anonymously aggregated on behalf of community interests: “[Banks] know quite a bit about how we spend our money,” O’Toole said. “And they can mine a lot of this […]
As part of my lecture at the Fiske Matters conference, I shared many images of contemporary activist groups which drew upon images and icons from popular culture as “resources” which help them to capture the imagination and motivate the engagement of broader publics. As Fiske wrote, “These popular forces transform […]
Via Knight Foundation… Knight News Challenge Winners, In Brief from Knight Foundation on Vimeo. Congratulations to this year’s (yet-again-amazing) class of Knight News Challenge winners.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation–sponsor of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media–today announced their 2010 Knight News Challenge winners. Together, these winners form another ground-breaking, visionary class of civic media developers, inventors, and entrepreneurs. Video of the announcement by Knight Foundation president Alberto Ibargüen, as well […]