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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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Flu Portal curates trusted H1N1 content
In today’s noisy and often confusing news environment, a central role for public media is to provide credible, reliable information to a broad range of citizens. FluPortal, a CPB-funded project, led by PRX in collaboration with NPR, is designed to do just that. A centralized hub of reputable content that “provides public media with news, information, and web tools to respond to the H1N1 flu outbreak,” the site has been active since August 2009. The FluPortal… more
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UCLA Does the Right Thing by Fair Use
Posted by Patricia Aufderheide on Mar 3, 2010
UCLA, which in January yanked down videos being streamed for classroom use as a result of bullying by a trade association has rediscovered that educators have fair use rights. Now, UCLA professors can post videos again within their passworded class sites online. In a UCLA press release, Christine Borgman, chair of the Information Technology Planning Board and UCLA Presidential Professor of Information Studies, said, “The UCLA faculty and administration quickly reached consensus on both the need… 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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