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Public Participation as Public Media: Digital Participation and the National Broadband Plan

We're pleased to present this guest post from Christopher Ali, doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Ali holds an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University in Montreal and his research interests include local and community media, broadcasting, and telecommunication policy in Canada and the United States.

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Assessing How Media Spurs Engagement: Responses to the Haiti Crisis

How can media best be used in response to a sudden and devastating crisis? The outpouring of coverage, aid and volunteer labor that followed the catastrophic January 12 earthquake in Haiti reveals the myriad of strategies that producers of both old and new media are using to inform and mobilize publics around this disaster.

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Assessing Inclusion as a Central Element of Public Media 2.0

On February 11-12 the Center will be holding its annual Making Your Media Matter conference, and this year's theme is "Real Stories, Real Impact." Leading up to the conference, and over the course of the spring Research Fellow Katie Donnelly and I will be examining methods for assessing various elements that contribute to high-impact public media projects.Read more...

On MediaShift today: new policy directions for public media 2.0

Check out my piece over at the MediaShift site, reflecting on how attendees at this week's FTC hearing on the future of journalism should broaden their thinking to include public media 2.0.

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FCC comments by CSM fellow reveal how public media can spur broadband adoption

This week, Center for Social Media Fellow Ellen Goodman--a professor at Rutgers University School of Law in Camden--submitted the attached response to a request from the Federal Communications Commission for public comment on the development of a national broadband plan. Read more...