Digital Media and the Public Sphere (Jan 06 Report)
A Future of Media Project of the Center for Social Media looks at new experiments in internet-based public spaces, citizen media and public broadcasting.
New report from the Center for Social Media's Future of Public Media project (funded by the Ford Foundation):
Digital Media and the Public Sphere
Barbara Abrash reports on a January12-13, 2006 convening of public broadcasters, digital media practitioners, scholars, funders, analysts and policy specialists, held at the Charles F.
Kettering Foundation. New citizen media are, in some bold experiments,
creating strong and vibrant public spaces, the very kind of public
spaces that traditional public media has long sought to foster and
nurture. At the same time, some public broadcasters are experimenting
creatively with more open and participatory environments.
