In late 2007, several members of Professor Nolan Bowie's “New Media and Democracy” class at Harvard's Kennedy School, including some Nieman Foundation Fellows, proposed that instead of a paper, they would jointly produce a video on a related topic. The resulting 9-minute film “Going On-Line to Get On-Track” profiles the creation and use of a citizen-made documentary film as part of a campaign to bring an alternative transport option to the residents of low-income neighborhoods in Somerville, Massachusetts. Berkman’s Media Re:public project provided post-production support to the video and is publishing a short narrative case about the online media campaign profiled in the film.
A weekly meeting for people interested in weblogs, newbie to guru.
David Ardia, Sam Bayard, and Tuna Chatterjee of CMLP discussed trends in online publishing and previewed the CMLP database of subpeonas, cease-and-desist letters, and other threats made to citizen journalists.
This week Berkman’s managing director Colin Maclay discusses public media in the digital age with Public Radio Exchange’s Jake Shapiro.
This afternoon Michael Maier, former Shorenstein Fellow and founder and CEO of the German company Blogform Publishing, joined the Berkman Luncheon Series to present on the next generation of digital media platforms in his talk: “Participation, Design, Search: How the Internet is Transforming.”
Fernando Rodrigues spoke about journalism and access to public information in Brazil.
The 2007 Internet & Society Conference was positioned to generate questions, insight and solutions from diverse perspectives across the landscape of University, with a focus on the role of University as an institution.
Blogging, Journalism and Credibility: Battleground and Common Ground was organized jointly by the Harvard Law Schools Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the American Library Associations Office of Information Technology Policy.
