Jessica Clark's Posts

"American Journalism Review Struggles to Keep Publishing."Read more...

The second annual YearlyKos convention took place in early August at Chicago's sprawling McCormick Place. Named after--but by no means conscribed by--the popular progressive blog DailyKos, the conference demonstrated the increasingly fluid relationship between political and public media projects, and the ever-expanding role that citizens are playing in demanding and shaping media that addresses civic issues.Read more...

If a serious energy crisis really hit, would all hell break loose? That was the question posed by World Without Oil, an alternative reality game (ARG) profiled in a June 10
Salon article by Eliza Strickland. Created by an idealistic and strikingly ambitious designer, Jane McGonigal, the game was sponsored by ITVS, the independent programming arm of PBS. Read more...

How much access should members of the public have to the data and media projects that their tax dollars fund? How about corporations looking to make a buck from government-financed data? Does information really "want to be free," as Stewart Brand famously pronounced more than two decades ago, and if so, who's going to pay for its production? Read more...