Berkman Center: News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age

My friend Lokman pointed out that The Berkman Center (he’s a fellow there) released a new piece of research today called Media Re:Public: News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age:

“A series of papers exploring the potential and the challenges of the emerging networked digital media environment.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jWEjVkXnkI

On their download site you can find:

Overview paper

• News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age (Persephone Miel, Robert Faris)

Issues

• International News: Bringing about the Golden Age (Ethan Zuckerman)
• Principles for a New Media Literacy (Dan Gillmor)
• Public Broadcasting and Public Affairs: Opportunities and challenges for public broadcasting’s role in provisioning the public with news and public affairs (Pat Aufderheide, Jessica Clark)
• Digital Media, Democracy and Diversity: an Imperfect Discourse (Ernest J. Wilson III)
• Pride of Place: Mainstream Media and the Networked Public Sphere (John Kelly)
• Editors — the best is yet to come? (Tom Stites)
• A Typology for Media Organizations

Case studies

• iReport: Participatory Media Joins a Global News Brand
• The Gothamist Network: Gateway to Local News?
• The Forum, Deerfield, NH: Seeking Sustainability in Hyperlocal Journalism
• The Chi-Town Daily News: Creating a New Supply of Local News