We Media Global Forum Goes Live Online on May 3-4
For those of you who prefer to hang out in pajamas, you can participate in the Global Forum from home. We Media GOES LIVE on...
Read MoreEarth Institute’s Jeffrey Sachs, UN’s Nitin Desai to Speak at Global Forum
So, one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World (Time Magazine, in both 2004 and 2005), Jeffrey Sachs, will beam into...
Read MoreWill the U.S. Get the Democratic Media We Deserve?
The answer is that for the short-term–even in the broadband era–it isn’t likely. First, our largest media...
Read MoreThe Democratization of Media: Icarus Retold
The news media is often referred to as the Fourth Estate, alongside the other three Estates (church, nobility and merchant...
Read MoreStaying Connected Across Time
In his kickoff post, Florian talks about well-connected societies using a “range of different media types available to...
Read MoreConnectedness and Technology – Evolutionary Siblings?
Connected? Has the Net been Darwinian in its brief evolution, and are the characteristics of a networked society akin to...
Read MoreThree Futurist Ideas
Florian Brody asks: Should we wait for a random start-up to come up with some new web technology to find out about the next...
Read MoreTrust
Thank you for the invitation to weigh in. Trust is as old as the human race, as is its opposite, betrayal. Why? You can get...
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...
Read MoreQuality Connections
Judging from our own information-age society (vs. Sub-Saharan Africa for example), we are technologically over-connected....
Read MoreIt’s Connectedness, Not Technology, That’s Transforming Society
In the comments of this week’s discussion starter, William Smale asks, “Who is connected and the corollary of who...
Read MoreHow Media Is Changing Society – Connectedness
Should we wait for a random start-up to come up with some new Web technology to find out about the next major change of the...
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...
Read MoreTelevision Trust
The Latinobarometer regularly meaures in which institutions do Latin Americans hold the most “confianza”...
Read MoreTrust Is for Suckers
Trust you? Yeah, right. That’s what I used to say to anti-abortion demonstrators when I was writing for mainstream...
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