Public Media Showcase

How can public media spur multi-platform engagement through a national TV channel? That's the challenge that was posed to the team developing WorldCompass.org, the companion website for the World TV channel, a news and documentary channel now available in parts of 32 states. Read more...

As we settle into the public media 2.0 ecosystem, in which everyone is a media maker, consumer and critic, the need for large scale, comprehensive media literacy initiatives is becoming more and more apparent. We've written about the intersections between media literacy and public media 2.0 in this space before  — simply put, publics can't use media to address shared problems unless they understand how to access and critique media messages, and how to make their own contributions. Over the next two months we’ll be profiling promising projects in the Showcase, and examining how they assess their effectiveness.

The Networked Nonprofit by Beth Kanter  and Allison Fine provides a clear overview of how nonprofits can incorporate social media in order to increase their organizational effectiveness.Read more...

Both professional and citizen coverage of the revolt in Egypt are demonstrating the ways in which Web 2.0 production has risen as a form of public media in emerging and unstable democracies. Participatory and mobile platforms are serving to bring a public together around issues related to the governance of the country by allowing multiple, competing perspectives to surface.

Our round-up of engagement projects on MediaShift last year drew some attention from mediamakers. Read more...