Future of Public Media

"American Journalism Review Struggles to Keep Publishing."Read more...

The second annual YearlyKos convention took place in early August at Chicago's sprawling McCormick Place. Named after--but by no means conscribed by--the popular progressive blog DailyKos, the conference demonstrated the increasingly fluid relationship between political and public media projects, and the ever-expanding role that citizens are playing in demanding and shaping media that addresses civic issues.Read more...

May 2007

INTRODUCTION

Co-sponsored by CUNYcolab and the Center for Social Media, Mobilized!, brought together artists, designers, software developers and others interested in mobile media on May 5th and 6th, 2007, to learn more about how new mobile communications platforms are rapidly changing public space and social interaction.
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Open Source, a lively WGBH radio program that developed its programming from a vigorous blog culture online (at http://www.radioopensource.org/), has run out of funding to stay on the air. The show's challenges are sobering for those who believe that tomorrow's public media will be able to be generated without government or foundation resources or at low cost. Read more...

If a serious energy crisis really hit, would all hell break loose? That was the question posed by World Without Oil, an alternative reality game (ARG) profiled in a June 10
Salon article by Eliza Strickland. Created by an idealistic and strikingly ambitious designer, Jane McGonigal, the game was sponsored by ITVS, the independent programming arm of PBS. Read more...