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

18 December 2008 in From the Field by Kate | View Comments

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.”

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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