In 1962 or 1963, my (long-deceased) ham-radio-operator father predicted that as long-distance communications became ubiquitous due to technical advances, “In another generation or two, ‘neighborhoods’ will be defined by shared interests, not geography.”
Community – Who would have thought we would ever live in a world where the word community was difficult to define? I believe that in this globalized society, community means connection. At The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World, an international nonprofit organization and independent journalism initiative, we strive to produce news content […]
The evolution of new media has intrinsically redefined this nation’s concepts of community. Growing up in the small towns of Ohio, communities for me were always close and clearly defined. Friends, families, churches and schools were connected through location, similar perspectives and shared goals. Communities today extend beyond local definitions and proximity. Technology empowers people […]
Blog editor and social media manager, We Media Miami Outspoken, up and coming media focused freelance writer/blogger Tish Grier launched her career in new media in 2006. . .
Community and communication share the same roots, and that is, mainly, because one can’t exist without the other. We are part of society as long as we interact with others, as long as we recognize and understand them, and also, as long as we are capable of negotiating and coexisting. It is in this […]
Here’s a news release we’re distributing today about the We Media Film Festival … FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Online Festival Celebrates the Power of “My Community” ifocos.org today announced a call for entries and viewer-judges to the 2007 We Media Film Festival. The user-generated online film festival, launched in conjunction with the We Media Miami conference […]
“The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.” – Frederick Buechner Belonging to a community in a connected age affords us additional options to develop ourselves and […]
The boundaries that divide most communities are usually based on race, language, religion or socio-economic differences. At the U.S. – Mexico borderline where I live, the separation between people is physical and political – government policies that create walls and other barriers to the free exchange of travel, business, education, ideas and personal relationships. Unfortunately, traditional news media (newspapers, broadcast television, […]
In May 2006, Salem Communications, a conservative talk-radio company, purchased Townhall.com and on July 4, 2006, launched a new web presence that combines the grassroots mediums of talk radio and the Internet. How do you merge an existing online community with a national fan base of radio listeners? How do you grow the community […]
(Updated Jan. 19, 2007) Thanks if you’ve already registered – or if not, what are you waiting for? Register here. Here’s a look at who is coming to We Media Miami (subject to change at any time): Randy Abramson, Executive Producer, Discovery Robertson Adams, Communications Associate — Webmaster, Knight Foundation Chris Ahearn, President, Media, Reuters […]
A novel approach to collaborative filtering launched a couple of weeks ago and is worth a look. NewsTrust is tying to develop a more reliable means of finding the most trustworthy news and information for specific stories – not simply by relying on your hunches and experience with your media, but by relying on the […]
Newspapers are failing, and my friend and advisor Alan Webber knows why: the problem isn’t technology, shifting business models, the rise of social networks or all the other excuses newspaper executives like to talk about. The problem is lousy products. From Alan’s Nov. 13, 2006 post: What’s happened, I think, is that newspapers have stopped […]
Diplomats and various internet influentials talked about internet censorship, diversity and access at a UN-sponsored gathering in Athens this week. Do you care? Do your usual media providers keep you up-to-date on who’s controlling the internet and what they’d like to do with it? Given the emerging ubiquity and necessity of digital communications, I continue […]