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Mapping Digital MediaDigital Media and Democracy Worldwide: Public Media 2.0

What are the implications for democracy in the digital media transformation worldwide? What policies can protect diversity of expression, and what kind of funding is possible? How does the situation differ in different regions? Read more...

Mapping Public Media: Inside and Out

This analysis by Center for Social Media Research Director Jessica Clark contrasts the findings revealed by CSM case studies to Govcom.org's maps of the same media projects, below.

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Global Voices

Questions

Whose voices, which globe? Is there a particular geography of voice? Are the global voices (known as bridge blogs) substantively bridging familiar global boundaries or redrawing them?

What is the substance of the global voices conversations? Are there particular subject matters that are discussed globally or regionally?

Who are the publics for global voices? Do the commentators on global voices postings form a distinctive geography?

Global Voices: Creating Multiple Global Publics

This case study by CSM Media Fellow Martin Lucas explores the origins, structure, and impact of Global Voices, an international blogging site designed to increase communication across borders and reveal international issues from the perspectives of citizen media-makers.

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Global Voices: Creating Multiple Global Publics

Creating Multiple Global Publics: How Global Voices Engages Journalists and Bloggers around the World

Since its inception in 2004, Global Voices has developed as a major hub for a worldwide network of people speaking about their local situations to a global audience using the tools of citizen-generated media. The site features a central blog that offers aggregation of and commentary on outside blog content, available by region, country, and language, on such topics as politics, governance, and human rights. It also hosts several additional blogs, including advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org, as well as blogs for each language the editors translate content into. In addition to providing content, Global Voices has become a voice for freedom of speech in the international blogosphere and a source of technical information about how to avoid political restraints on net-based free speech—central concerns for the health of a growing international public sphere. 
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