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Pew Center: Social Media Provide First-Hand Accounts, Direct Action on Haiti

[Source: Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, January 21, 2010]
The tragic earthquake that devastated the country of Haiti on January 12 and killed an estimated 200,000 people inspired a wealth of online activity. The online communication site Twitter played ...

Community Radio Reaches Out in Haiti

[Source: Prometheus Radio Project, January 27, 2010]
"Much has been made about the role flashier technologies like Twitter, Skype and text messaging have played in helping disaster victims find loved ones and communicate with international aid ...

The Social Media of Post-Industrial Collapse, Recession and Social Uprisings

[Source: Open Spaces, by Patricia Zimmermann; November 1, 2009]Social, Viral, Buzz

Information, Please

In its current state, PBS represents a mission gone awry. Is it too late to change its meandering course?[Source: ebonyjet.com] By Jacquie Jones“From Clifford the Big Red Dog to Lawrence Welk, ...

Media Justice and Communications Rights at the First US Social Forum: Atlanta 2007

by Jonathan Lawson, Reclaim the MediaThe first US Social Forum held in Atlanta this summer, was a truly historic event. Many thousands of social justice activists and community organizations from ...

Is there a Role for Distributors in the Internet Age?

There is a myth in the current, collective unconscious about an emerging internet age where virtually all the content in the universe will become available to almost anyone in reach of a browser. ...

2005 Ford Foundation Funder Briefing Reports

Download reports and transcripts from the three-part series of funder briefings entitled "Democracy at Stake? Current Issues in Electronic Media Policy and the Future of the Public Sphere."