At MIT Knight Confab, Public Activism Looms Large
The smell of public activism wafted across this year’s Knight Civic Media conference at MIT. Mohammed Nanabhay from Al Jazeera…
Virtual Worlds Are Scary for Parents, Liberating for Kids
There are more than 1 billion users of virtual worlds, online communities where people have avatars and participate in various…
5 Guidelines for Community Managers to Have Cross-Cultural Fluency
While the behavior of connecting is nothing new, doing it in a virtual environment gives rise to new and sophisticated…
Dotspotting’s ‘Toner’ Cartography Available for Download
One of the central tenets of the Knight News Challenge grant for Citytracking was that the work would happen in…
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Supreme Court to review FCC indecency policy High court will rule on whether it violates First Amendment Twitter for Newsrooms…
MIT Lesson: Change Happens Everywhere; Activists Need to Think it Through
I attended last Thursday’s afternoon plenary “Civic Media Mobilization,” at the 2011 Knight Civic Media conference, expecting to hear discussion…
The Twitter Effect: How Social Media Changes the News Narrative
Matthew Arnold The Victorian poet and critic Matthew Arnold, best known for the bleak and cynically fatalistic love poem, “Dover…
Silicon Sisters Builds Videogames for Women by Women
The stereotypical videogame player is a young male under age 18, but study after study has shown that the majority…
How Newsrooms Can Win Back Their Reputations
The journalism industry ships lemons every day. Our newsrooms have a massive quality control problem. According to the best counts…
News Media Face Challenges in Post-Saddam Iraq
The U.S. government pumped an estimated half a billion dollars into revitalizing Iraq’s news media after Saddam Hussein was ousted…