Iraq Memorial

The latest wrinkle in public media using social networking comes from Brave New Films, which--borrowing from the idea of the AIDS quilt--is hosting an electronic "quilt" of memories about U.S. soldiers fallen in the Iraq war. This is a non-partisan site dedicated to the memory of the lives of these soldiers, composed of videos made by their friends and families. How it evolves will be one piece of evidence about how social networking can create public media sites from the grassroots. It'll be launched on March 19--the Center's website will be one of many sites hosting it that day--and you can learn more at iraqmemorial.org.