Science Friday: What Does Technology Do To Our Brains (And Why Should We Care)?
Can all the hours we spend online rewire the circuitry of our brain? A UCLA study released this week began to answer that question, showing...
Read MoreQuestion of the Day: What Are You Reading?
News broke yesterday that Random House, the world’s largest book publisher, was re-structuring and would eliminate two large...
Read MoreAre Tweens The Solution to the Newspaper Crisis?
Online news and newspaper sites are either struggling to attract audiences or generate revenue (and some struggle with both). The reasons...
Read MoreQuestion of the Day
Larry Lessig and the team from Change Congress, along with a large (and growing) group of internet visionaries released a set of principles...
Read MoreMedia Is Bad (Or is it?)
Is media bad for you? Has technology ruined a whole generation of children? The answer, according to researchers from the National...
Read MoreQuestion of the Day: Does local news need an anchor?
Today’s New York Times notes that local news anchors are increasingly being forced into retirement. The article...
Read MoreCoverage of the Mumbai Attacks: Was It Any Good?
Like many people, I spent much of last week consuming coverage of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. I first learned of the attacks while...
Read MoreFinal Session: Aha! Moments
Rarely do you attend a conference where the accumulated intellectual star power on one stage is as great as was the case in our final group...
Read MoreSession 4: Aha! Moments
The average age of the We Media audience dropped significantly when “The Content Creatives’ took the stage for the first panel...
Read MoreSession 3: Aha! Moments
I’m not sure that the third major discussion of the We Media conference was appropriately titled, but it sure was interesting. Yes, the...
Read MoreSession 2: Aha! Moments
There were numerous references to the ‘elephant in the room’ at the second session of We Media’s on Thursday. What is the...
Read MoreSession 1: Aha! Moments
The first session degenerated (is that the right word?) into a discussion about who should control the conversation in our...
Read MoreWhere Do Trust and Connectedness Overlap?
Last week, we talked about Trust in the Media (as well as trust generally). This week we have been talking about connectedness. Is there a...
Read MoreTrust in the Media: Closing It Out
I want to thank everyone who participated in the discussion this week about Trust in the Media. Its just about time to wind down this part...
Read MoreTrust In The Media: A Pre-Discussion
One of the core themes of the upcoming We Media Global Forum is trust — or specifically, “How trust and empowerment shape our...
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