Public broadcasting, newspapers, magazines, and network newscasts have all played a central role in our democracy, informing citizens and guiding public conversation. But the top-down dissemination technologies that supported them are being supplanted by an open, many-to-many networked media environment. What platforms, standards, and practices will replace or transform legacy public media? This white paper […]
19 films from Scenarios USA (Feb 2009)
Watch Films——————– All 19 Scenarios USA films address communication, relationships and decision making. Film topics include Pregnancy Prevention, HIV/AIDS, Body Image, Sexual Identity and many other themes.———————— Scenarios USA is a nonprofit organization that through writing and film making is seeking to encourage leadership, support and self-expression in the youth. Every year Scenarios USA holds […]
Norms, Minorities, and Collective Choice Online. Ethics & International Affairs, Volume 22.4 (Winter 2008)
This essay seeks claim that a lot can be learned about the consequences of collective projects on the Internet by looking at how the specific rules of these projects structure collective choice. These rules structure the choices made by participants in a wide variety of endeavors, and hence influence the outcomes of these choices and […]
Exchanges Connect
In March 2009 the U.S. Depart of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs will in partnership with Adobe Youth Voices hold a video contest called “My Culture + Your Culture = ? Share Your Story”. The purpose is to create an online community of people dedicated to bridging cultures and making a positive difference […]
Digital Diplomacy Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds
The report “Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds project” is written by Carnegie Council Senior Fellows Joshua S. Fouts and Rita J. King. Through a year of exploring digital Islamic communities they seek how the Internet can lead to a greater firsthand understanding of Islam for policymakers, diplomats, and people worldwide, and to explore how the […]
Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds, Video
Carnegie Council Senior Fellows Joshua S. Fouts and Rita J. King presents, through a video their findings after a year of exploring digital Islamic communities.
Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University
The Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University is committed to teaching students how to use critical thinking skills to judge the reliability and credibility of news reports and news sources. Faculty members train the next generation of news consumers to think critically about what they read, watch, and hear. Critical thinking. Citizenship. The […]
The Control Room: curriculum on the documentary
This is a toolkit, including a curriculum, for educators within the field of media literacy, taking its starting point in the documentary The Control Room. The Control Room features Al Jazeera’s coverage of the current Iraq conflict to the world wide Arab audience, and calls into question many of the prevailing images and positions offered […]
The International Communication Association
The purposes of the Association are (1) to provide an international forum to enable the development, conduct, and critical evaluation of communication research; (2) to sustain a program of high quality scholarly publication and knowledge exchange; (3) to facilitate inclusiveness and debate among scholars from diverse national and cultural backgrounds and from multi-disciplinary perspectives on […]
The Role of Media in Defining Arab Culture—AUSACE’s 2002 Beirut Conference
The Role of Media in Defining Arab Culture, is an article about the seventh annual conference of the Arab-US Association for Communication Educators (AUSACE). The conference was held by the Lebanese American University, with the theme “The Role of Media in Defining Arab Culture.” More than 40 mass communication scholars, media experts, journalists, students, and […]
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