Media Impact

The rapporteur's report for this year's Making Your Media Matter conference is now online. Click here to read the report, written by Kate Schuler, a graduate student in AU's School of Communication.

If you haven't had a chance to visit the Center's Flickr site, go now! Read more...

Today the Center for Social Media is publishing the first in a series of "field reports" designed to illuminate innovative public media projects: Hip-Hop, Beyond Beats and Rhymes. Read more...

This panel on emerging formats and distribution strategies closed out the day with a sexy bevy of case studies of cutting-edge public multimedia projects and the challenges they have faced.Read more...

Frederick Thomas of MHz Networks moderated the afternoon panel on media projects that attempt to bridge cultures and open up new channels of communication.Read more...

Keynote speaker Byron Hurt, writer and director of Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, was joined by the film's community outreach campaign strategist, Sonya Childress of Firelight Media, to discuss how the film has been used to reach out to audiences well beyond its initial airing on PBS. A fan of hip-hop, Hurt was disturbed by the sexist, violent and homophobic content of many artists' songs. Read more...