Conferences
Articles and Live Blogs about conferences that I’ve attended.
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Design Thinking, with Michael Maness
Social media allows people to share their stories. For example, Twitter users are 4x more likely to share information on any social site than non-Twitter users. The platform enables distribution. Big media finds it, filters it, and curates it. Michael Manness, Vice President for Journalism and Media Initiatives at Knight Foundation, suggests that design thinking…
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What’s Next, and Why it Could Matter to You, with Amy Webb
They’re not just scary trends that invade our privacy. Even frightening tools can be used for good. Amy Webb of Webbmedia Group, a digital strategy agency, highlighted three current trends that could be made relevant to community foundations at the Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar. Social discovery. Tagging, or captioning, pictures with hyperlinks occurs across…
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WOW and Doable! A look at five successful community information projects
“These are ideas you can steal,” says Knight Foundation Vice President for Communities, Trabian Shorters, of the five community information projects discussed at this session of the 2012 Media Learning Seminar. You Choose – Bay Area “Your home, your future, your choice.” Margot Rawlins and the Silicon Valley Foundation developed an three-prong approach to engaging…
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Dan Gillmor on Civic Engagement in a Networked Society
When Dan Gillmor took the stage at Knight Foundation’s Media Learning Seminar, his message was one of digital literacy. “Distribution is no longer the problem (for news). The problem is now access. Our students will invent the future of news delivery.” Gillmor, founding director of the Knight Center or Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University,…
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Media Learning Expo
Get some really innovative people in a room together and ask them to share what they do. That’s the simple concept behind the Expo at Knight Foundation’s Media Learning Seminar this week at the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami. At the Expo, I went from booth to booth, hearing about innovative ideas and gathering resources that…
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Media Learning Seminar 2012
To get my head in the game for this week’s Media Learning Seminar in Miami, I went to a community space just outside the conference hotel. Bayfront Park was bustling with families, couples, people exercising, kids on bikes, and groups of teens showing off for each other. As an onlooker, I watched the people, picking…
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Voicing a Campus Icon
Where do information design theory, digital media, and community engagment intersect? One location is on the Queens University of Charlotte campus inside a fountain in the middle of a major courtyard. That’s the home of @QueensDiana. At the National Communication Association annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, I presented a paper on the hyperlocal community engagement enhanced…
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Online Credibility and Digital Ethos
How has the digital landscape changed the way that we view credibility? As credibility emerges as a core struggle in the online environment, researchers are discussing this issue at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association (NCA) this week in New Orleans, Louisiana. I had the privilege of responding to a set of four…
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Digital Media Consumption
Consumption of online media is a hot topic in the study of digital literacies and at NCA 2011, the annual meeting of the National Communication Association occurring this week in New Orleans, Louisiana. This morning, I had the pleasure of responding to competitive research surrounding the topics of Facebook, social networking and online media consumption.…
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Rebuilding Communities after Crisis – NCA’s Opening Address
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans rebuilt its community – a task that is still in process. At the opening keynote of the National Communication Association’s 97th annual convention, the convention team looked to the host city for inspiration. To amplify the voice of the city, NCA invited Jim Pate and Andrew Shahan…
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