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Here it is: our long-awaited white paper, Public Media 2.0: Dynamic, Engaged Publics. Co-authored by Future of Public Media Project director Jessica Clark and Center for Social Media director Pat Aufderheide, this report offers an expanded vision for public media: multiplatform, participatory, and centered around informing and mobilizing networks of engaged users. Showcasing trends and experiments from the "first two minutes" of public media 2.0, the report provides a map of opportunities and ways to make the most of them. It also suggests that public broadcasting could play a central role in public media 2.0—but only if the medium is properly restructured and supported.

Listen to Center for Social Media director Pat Aufderheide talking about the issues surrounding public media here.

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WITNESS Creates Sophisticated Evaluation Tools for Video Impact

Last month, Jessica Clark and I explored how various Public Media 2.0 projects are measuring their level of success in informing and engaging publics. We found that many public media organizations are struggling to measure impact — and some are relying only on traditional indicators of reach, as opposed to other elements of impact such as relevance, inclusion, engagement or influence. Some projects, however, are taking a more holistic approach that is matched closely to their… more

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Ellen Goodman’s report on the FCC’s Broadband Plan

Posted by Patricia Aufderheide on Mar 19, 2010

We’re proud to bring you the first report from Center for Social Media Fellow Ellen Goodman, who is Professor at Rutgers School of Law and Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the FCC working part time on the FCC’s Future of Media Project: This week, the FCC released its epic National Broadband Plan. The Plan largely deals with telecommunications infrastructure issues – how can we get more ubiquitous and faster broadband. Although the Plan is very focused on… more

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Making Your Media Matter 2010

Making Your Media Matter is a conference for established and aspiring filmmakers, non-profit communications leaders, funders and students looking to learn and share cutting-edge practices for making their media matter.

What I Learned at Public Media Camp: Diversity and the Elusive Public Media 2.0 Butterfly

Christian Ugbode

It takes a while for over two-hundred people to introduce themselves individually. As names and affiliations are called out on a floating microphone at NPR and PBS’ Public Media Camp/”unconference” October 17th in Washington DC, I ponder why I am in this room. Probably because I never wanted to be Quentin Tarantino in film school. Or Martin Scorcese like every third NYU student. I gravitated to public media by chance but have loved every step of my evolution via the National Black Programming Consortium, and nowadays public media’s untapped potential keeps me restless.

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Mapping the Money: 2008 Beyond Broadcast

Want to hear everything the panelists of the "Mapping the Money" discussion had to say at 2008’s Beyond Broadcast conference? Watch their comments—in their entirety—right here!

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High-Order Bits: 2008 Beyond Broadcast

Special highlights of public media research and creation.