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User-centric journalism creates new challenges for journalists, about accountability, fairness and accuracy. But it also offers public media, as we noted in our white paper Public Media 2.0, great opportunities. Now, Chicago public radio station WBEZ’s CEO Torey Malatia issues a challenge to all creators of public media, and disentangles engagement from advocacy.  (It was triggered by his decision to yank a show he found tilting toward advocacy.) Read more...

It's happened again: Bogus claims of copyright infringement brought down perfectly legitimate content--this time while a lot of people were watching. Read more...

The Center for Social Media is expanding in exciting ways, thanks to support from American University. School of Communication professor Matthew Nisbet, a leading scholar on the role of communication in shaping policy debates, is joining the Center as co-director. Read more...

Dear Center for Social Media,

I'm a newbie high school English teacher, and one of my assignments this year will be for students to make remakes or remixes of Shakespeare plays. I showed our principal some of your work--the Documentary Filmmakers Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, the Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Online Video, and the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education. She's approved the assignment, so thanks! Now I'd like to do a quick overview of fair use for my students at the beginning of the semester. What's the best way to explain what they can and can't do, in terms of copyright, for this assignment?  Read more...

The Center for Social Media is proud to be one of the sponsors of POV's Premiere Party initiative!Read more...