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Two million iPads have been unboxed in just a few weeks. Only one question remains: What’s your app?
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How do games function as social media? Should documentary film folks pay attention to gaming? I went to the Seventh Annual Games for Change Festival (G4C) in New York City to find out. I quickly discovered what so many people in the audience already knew--that games are an integral part of the social media landscape. Panelists challenged not just game developers but all new media makers to go beyond assembling spectator audiences to establishing concrete action plans for social change.
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On Thursday January 28th, American University's Kay Spiritual Life Center' sponsored a panel, Tweets & Blogs: Social Media as a Voice for the Voiceless. (CSM cosponsored.) The speakers included:.

Emily Jacobi is the Co-Founder and Director of Digital Democracy, a New York-based nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering civic engagement through digital technologies.Read more...

As promised in our monthly newsletter, here is our Public Media 2.0 Field Report: Building Social Media Infrastructure to Engage Publics --Twitter Vote Report and Inauguration Report 09 --two projects that demonstrated the potential of microblogging formats for election monitoring before the recent upheaval in Iran brought the topic to international attention.Read more...