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Online games address sustainability, civic engagement and community building

As we’ve noted before, games can be a great way to educate, inform and inspire groups of people to coalesce around particular issues. In the past, we’ve written about some of the great work being done in this area by organizations like Games for Change and ITVS. Below are more examples of games that address topics of environmental sustainability, civic engagement and community building.Read more...

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...

What I Learned at Public Media Camp: Diversity and the Elusive Public Media 2.0 Butterfly

It takes a while for over two-hundred people to introduce themselves individually. As names and affiliations are called out on a floating microphone at NPR and PBS' Public Media Camp/"unconference" October 17th in Washington DC, I ponder why I am in this room. Probably because I never wanted to be Quentin Tarantino in film school. Or Martin Scorcese like every third NYU student. I gravitated to public media by chance but have loved every step of my evolution via the National Black Programming Consortium, and nowadays public media's untapped potential keeps me restless.

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Public Media Camp Round-Up

Innovative public media projects were in abundance at Public Media Camp 2009 last weekend, a public media “un-conference” co-hosted by NPR, PBS and the Center for Social Media, in conjunction with iStrategyLabs. Over 250 public media stakeholders gathered here at American University to share their thoughts about public media and strategize about its future. This week’s Showcase features a brief overview of just a few examples of the many exciting projects we encountered at PubCamp. Read more...

Global citizen media, taking steps toward a global public media 2.0

written by Pat Aufderheide and Jessica Clark

Several new reports from the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), part of the U.S. government-funded National Endowment for Democracy, showcase strategies that can build capacity for public media 2.0. But it won't be easy.Read more...