Who can you trust in the We Media landscape? Where’s the line between commerce and information? No more is it a question of parsing the biases of individual media outlets: It’s time to define a global media-education agenda so everyone can understand how today’s media works, and how best to use it. Our goal: Create a set of guidelines for media literacy today.
Session Chair: John Bell, Managing Director, 360¬? Digital Influence, Ogilvy
- Vinita Srivastava, Assistant Professor, Ryerson University
- Sam Grogg, Dean, University of Miami School of Communication
- Sara DeWitt, Senior Director, PBS KIDS & Parents Interactive
Blogged by Travis Smith, (with additional commentary from Renata Avila)
Chad Capellman is the web producer for wemedia.com. He has served in this capacity for every We Media conference even while working for other employers that included Boston.com, Eons.com and O’Reilly Media. He has applied many of the CMS, social networking and extended reach lessons he learned from five years at the Media Center at the American Press Institute and elsewhere to client web sites. He can be found at capellman.com