Hip-Hop as Cosmopolitan Citizen Media
Seeking greater social inclusion through new communication technologies is a strategy with a long and accomplished history that has persisted…
LocalLabs – Connecting Geeks Building Tools for Local Government Transparency
Who the heck are the people building these local “apps” for the NYC Big Apps competition Amanda Hickman alerted us…
Film Industry Experts Offer 10 Predictions for 2010
Films such as “2001” and “2012” illustrate how the future has long fascinated Hollywood. With a new year on the…
Media Mavens Wish for More Collaboration, Less Talk in 2010
Layoffs, buyouts, furloughs, and more than a few shuttered newspapers and magazines. That’s definitely part of the story of 2009.…
4 Minute Roundup: Google Phone and Netbook; Kindle Under Attack
Here’s the latest 4MR audio report from MediaShift. In this week’s edition, I look at Google’s various moves into consumer…
Big Apps Are Here
I’ve already voiced my own suspicion that New York City’s Big Apps competition is a deft end-run on an actual…
Activist-Journalists Bring Citizen, Pro Media Together at COP15
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK — This past Saturday, on a crisp afternoon in Copenhagen, Jacob Wheeler and Rick Fuentes, two journalists with…
GRINS v0.2 is released
We are very pleased to announce the second release of GRINS, Gram Vaani Knight-funded project to create low-cost systems for…
Looking Back at a Year of Training Citizen Journalists in South Africa
If you want to see citizen journalism in action — not to mention provoking action — take a look at…
California Watch Says ‘Yes’ to Open, Networked Investigative Reports
Some investigative journalists have been resistant to change in their profession, but hard times at newspapers have brought about a…