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Ethan Zuckerman at Knight Media Learning Seminar
“It’s a challenge for us to connect people’s stories to their communities,” says Ethan Zuckerman, Director of the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab, a leading thinker in civic media. “The problem isn’t the web, the problem is us,” says Zuckerman. “We have to find a way to become media producers.” his…
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Communities and Collaboration: Lessons Learned about Partnership Creation
“I’ve struggled with this partnership creation thing,” says Dennis Scholl, Vice President for Arts at Knight Foundation. Seventy community foundations across the nation have leveraged Knight grants to develop partnerships with over 450 community partners ranging from libraries to legacy media, social media and universities. A full report of this effort is available for download…
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Community Information Toolkit, version 1.1
Knight Foundation’s Community Information Toolkit creates a framework for assessing a community’s information ecosystem. Mayur Patel, Knight’s Vice President for Strategic Assessment, is leading the conversation on information ecosystem mapping. Mapping a community’s information ecosystem is not as daunting as the words might suggest. The components of a community’s information system include the community’s technology…
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Baby Carrots, the Internet, and The Filter Bubble
Why would a web service filter the information that I see? The information created in the entire history of humanity until 2010 is the same amount of information created online every two days. To filter that vast set of information, web companies have adopted the, “if you like this, you’ll like that” approach to curation.…
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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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