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How can University sponsored events leverage their reach, build communities and keep the conversations going after the conference ends? Using as a case study the Dred Scott conference held by the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice in April, we will discuss how history relates to the present and future. We will consider […]
Click To Play Video Citizen journalist, Lisa Williams joins Dan Gillmor to discuss Placeblogger.com, a project she is working on with support from the Center for Citizen Media. Produced by Indigo Tabor and Colin Rhinesmith.
Ethan Zuckerman, co-founder of Global Voices Online, which helps “amplify, curate and aggregate the global conversation online.” Ethan will lead a discussion on how citizen media people can make themselves heard amid all the online noise. AbovetheNoise session description… From the Citizen Journalism Unconference 2006 proceedings at Harvard Law School. Download the MP3.
Tom Stites, whose recent speech on media and democracy has raised such interest, on how (and if) citizen journalists can fill the enormous gaps being left by traditional media organizations. Here’s his introduction. From the Citizen Journalism Unconference 2006 proceedings at Harvard Law School. Download the MP3.
Steve Garfield, a top videoblogger, on using multimedia tools for better citizen journalism. Here’s his summary of what he plans to cover. From the Citizen Journalism Unconference 2006 proceedings at Harvard Law School. Download the MP3.
Andrew Lih, a major Wikipedian and former Columbia and Hong Kong University new media professor, on what would be the ideal toolset for citizen journalism, and what’s still missing from the toolset. From the Citizen Journalism Unconference 2006 proceedings at Harvard Law School. Download the MP3.
Lisa Williams, who runs the H2otown blog covering Watertown, Mass., on local sites and how they work best. See The Thousand Placeblog Bet for more on the discussion. From the Citizen Journalism Unconference 2006 proceedings at Harvard Law School. Download the MP3.
Listen to Dan Gillmor’s Citizens Media Series event, Engaging with the News”. Held at the Berkman Center, this informal discussion explores how people are using new media technologies to become citizen journalists. “In a world of democratized media, we dont have to settle anymore for the newspaper that a carrier drops in the driveway or […]
On Tuesday, March 14 the Berkman Center hosted the second in Dan Gillmor’s Citizens Media events series, Engaging with the News, Part I: The Daily Me and We.” “In a world of democratized media, we dont have to settle anymore for the newspaper that a carrier drops in the driveway or the 5 oclock news […]
Listen to “We the Media: The Rise of Grassroots, Open-Source Journalism, and the Coming Era of the Citizen Activist” from February 13, 2006 at The Kennedy School of Government. A public talk by Dan Gillmor — CitizenMedia.org founder & director, author of “We the Media,” and Berkman fellow — with respondents Alex Jones, Director of […]
Dan Gillmor is the author of “We the Media” (O’Reilly Media, 2004), a book that explains the rise of citizens’ media and why it matters, and more recently has been working at projects aimed at enabling grassroots journalism and expanding its reach. Gillmor is launching a new Center for Citizen Media to study, encourage, and […]