Public Media Like Minds Breakfast caucuses

Public media is poised to advance to 2.0, but the medium must change profoundly, said presenters at a 15-member caucus. “The future of public media is digital and participatory,” said moderator Jessica Clark of the American University Center for Social Media. Public media will not necessarily mean public-funded media, she said, so people with new […]

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Digital Natives: Who teaches whom?

UPDATED: 8:28 a.m. ET In a year or two, colleges will be educating freshmen who have always lived with the Internet. Mosaic, the first browser with in-line pictures, debuted in 1993, explained Rich Beckman of the University of Miami School of Communication. These digital natives or millennials, depending on who does the naming, are digitally […]

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Food for thought, Wednesday, Feb. 25

UPDATED: 8:45 PM ET Eight of us, half who have worked or still work in mainstream media, and the rest young New Media entrepreneurs, had a lively discussion about the future of so-called old or mainstream media. The consensus was that traditional mediums will not die off however they will become significantly smaller and will […]

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