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Social Media Overload - Sometimes Less is More
In December, fellow blogger on Social Media Today DJ Francis wrote a clever “Dear John” breaking up with his Twitter followers —or as he calls them “tweople.” While the letter was written in somewhat jest, the key theme was very much a valid issue that social media users face more and more. With Twitter in particular, as the site gets increasingly more popular, the utility of it wanes. DJ Francis points out the follow/follower volume ratio problem where the more people you follow, the more lost you become in the “noise” of it all. Fortunately, it is not … more
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Public Media 2.0 and the Obama Administration
What should the Obama administration do to promote public media 2.0? One good idea, which the presidential transition team already appears to take seriously, … more
Fair Use Question of the Month: Public Performance Rights
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Dear CSM:
I’ve got a fair use question I’m hoping someone at the Center for Social Media can answer for me. We (the Gallaudet University Library) … more
Innovation in Focus Roundup
Over the past year, we have featured a range of innovative projects by public media outlets and their allies, including Link TV, PBS, PRX, ITVS, the Sundance … more
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Making Your Media Matter 2009
Where: American University in the Katzen Center
How can media makers connect their ethical and aesthetic values with their financial needs?
The Center for Social Media invites established and aspiring filmmakers, non-profit communications leaders, funders, and students to our 5th annual Making Your Media Matter conference. This is a perfect opportunity to learn and share cutting-edge practices for creating media that matters.
For more information about the conference, and to learn more about registration, click here.
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances—especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are predominant. It is a general right that applies even in situations where the law provides no specific authorization for the use in question—as it does for certain narrowly defined classroom activities.
This guide identifies five principles that represent the media literacy education community’s current consensus about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials, wherever and however it occurs: in K–12 education, in higher education, in nonprofit organizations that offer programs for children and youth, and in adult education.