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ICA Preconference: Remapping Public Media—registration still open until May 3

email   discuss Posted by guest on Apr 4, 2008 at 12:32 PM

On May 22, the Center for Social Media will be sponsoring a preconference as part of the International Communication Associations yearly conference. It will build upon the Center for Social Media’s Mapping Public Media project, directed by Jessica Clark. Clark heads up CSM’s Future of Public Media project, funded by the Ford Foundation.

The preconference will showcase cross-disciplinary perspectives and conclude with discussion of a research agenda on public media (click here to read our public media FAQ) in a participatory digital era of communication. Please join us for this exciting event!


International Communication Association Preconference: Remapping Public Media
Thursday, May 22, 8:00-4:30
Registration deadline: May 3
CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION


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As digital innovations open up new opportunities for communication, they also create new questions about how media central to public engagement in democratic self–determination can be fostered. These are questions that cross traditional communications divisions—mass communication, technology and policy, and political and visual communication. At the same time, they focus on a core issue in communication: how the creation of shared meaning can create cultures of democratic participation and fuel social action. Scholars as diverse as James Carey, Robert Putnam, Michael Schudson, Robert McChesney, Annabelle Sreberny, and Stuart Hall have found this concern central to their research; now the challenge is to take those concerns into the open, digital environment.

Over the past decade, public service broadcasting, public access cable, and newspapers of record have seen business models shaken, traditional funding bases decayed, and policies changed. New distribution possibilities (broadband, peer-to-peer media sharing, satellite networks, digital cable, handheld devices, and more) are decoupling content from its original context and creators. Digital networking tools allow communities of media-makers, citizens, activists, and experts to communicate with one another, share information, and collaboratively learn like never before. So-called Web 2.0 tools emphasize user participation above all other features, and the explosion of blogs, user-driven digital video sites, social networking sites, and collaboratively authored texts like Wikipedia testify to the power of these new models. Aggregation tools, as David Weinberger discusses in Everything Is Miscellaneous, make it possible to configure and share significant new meanings on the fly.

What can public media—public media in the Deweyan sense of media for public knowledge and action—mean, given these new possibilities and challenges? As Yochai Benkler notes in The Wealth of Networks, this new environment creates enormous possibilities for a reimagining of public media as created by and for the public at points of need for action. At the same time, possibilities must be envisioned, encouraged, supported.


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International Communication Association Preconference: Remapping Public Media
Thursday, May 22, 8:00-4:30
Registration deadline: May 3
CLICK HERE FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Description: As digital innovations open up new opportunities for communication, they also create new questions about how media central to public engagement in democratic self–determination can be fostered. These are questions that cross traditional communications divisions—mass communication, technology and policy, and political and visual communication. At the same time, they focus on a core issue in communication: how the creation of shared meaning can create cultures of democratic participation and fuel social action. Scholars as diverse as James Carey, Robert Putnam, Michael Schudson, Robert McChesney, Annabelle Sreberny, and Stuart Hall have found this concern central to their research; now the challenge is to take those concerns into the open, digital environment. Over the past decade, public service broadcasting, public access cable, and newspapers of record have seen business models shaken, traditional funding bases decayed, and policies changed. New distribution possibilities (broadband, peer-to-peer media sharing, satellite networks, digital cable, handheld devices, and more) are decoupling content from its original context and creators. Digital networking tools allow communities of media-makers, citizens, activists, and experts to communicate with one another, share information, and collaboratively learn like never before. So-called Web 2.0 tools emphasize user participation above all other features, and the explosion of blogs, user-driven digital video sites, social networking sites, and collaboratively authored texts like Wikipedia testify to the power of these new models. Aggregation tools, as David Weinberger discusses in Everything Is Miscellaneous, make it possible to configure and share significant new meanings on the fly. What can public media—public media in the Deweyan sense of media for public knowledge and action—mean, given these new possibilities and challenges? As Yochai Benkler notes in The Wealth of Networks, this new environment creates enormous possibilities for a reimagining of public media as created by and for the public at points of need for action. At the same time, possibilities must be envisioned, encouraged, supported. http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/blogs/beyond_broadcast/992/ ' />

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