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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...

In 2010, the Future of Public Media Project shifts gears from analysis to action

After many months of deliberation about "What is public media?" pieces have started to fall into place. Public broadcasting leaders, innovators both within and outside of the sector, nonprofit and educational leaders, funders, and policymakers are all shifting into a new gear—and they're looking to the reports and tools that CSM has created for guidance about how best to transform to serve publics in an open, participatory media ecosystem.Read more...

Reflecting on public media 2.0 in 2009 and looking ahead to 2010

This year, we’ve featured some truly innovative projects in the Public Media 2.0 Showcase.Read more...