Old News Organizations Hook the Public With New Media
At a time when newspapers are hemorrhaging employees and questioning their survival, they are adopting a more stable role in the community...
Read MoreChutzpah: Why Craig can’t save classifieds
In an open letter to craigslist, Steve Outing asks its founders and operators to help save the newspaper industry from itself. My...
Read MoreTake Action: Help launch a blog about poverty in Washington, DC
Here’s a chance for members of the We Media Community to get involved in something new, practical and ambitious. Bread for the City,...
Read MoreCivil Discourse
Sponsored by Washington Post – newsweek Interactive Location: Storer Auditorium at 4:15 pm Session Chair: Hal Straus, Interactivity...
Read MoreTwo thirds of Americans View Traditional Journalism as ‘Out of Touch’
For the second year in a row we’ve documented a devastating lack of satisfaction with journalism in American – and an...
Read MoreWill work for … money
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is offering big bucks to support innovation in community journalism. The deadline for this...
Read MoreWhat’s in your wallet?
Our favorite media pundit Jay Rosen shared this test for understanding how people define and are defined by communities. What I carry in...
Read MoreConnected to the news by a generation of wired witnesses
Unaware of a shooting in a dormitory that left two people dead, Virginia Tech graduate student Jamal al Barghouti headed across campus to...
Read MoreVideo: We’re All in this Together
One phrase, one song from one of the projects featured stays with me as I consider all the videos that were shown at the Grove Stage on...
Read MoreWhy Media? How we get media literate
Last night at a Miami/We Media bloggers dinner (hosted by Alex deCarvalho of Scrapblog) Andy Carvin and I got into a discussion about...
Read MoreGlobal Voices: New Directions
Those of you who’ve visited the Global Voices web site are probably familiar with our core mission, and the ways in which we’ve...
Read MoreSecond Life and engaging communities
Communities exist in many forms, from chatter on a forum or bulletin board through to multi-player 3D virtual worlds. But what engagement...
Read MoreOnline Social Networks: Good For You
Communicating with each other online might turn out to be more than just a fun way to spend time — it may keep us sane, or even save...
Read MoreRhizome.org: Enhancing artistic collaboration online
Community is diverse, pluralistic, and alive. It develops around shared interests and passions, and carefully balances mass collaboration...
Read MoreTechnology Facilitates Community-Media Convergence
Broadly speaking, “community” can mean a locality, a school, a vocation, even an entire ethnic group or religion – any group bound by...
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