MEDIA GIRAFFE PROJECT
INAUGURAL CONFERENCE AND ROUNDTABLE SUMMIT
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“Democracy and Independence:
Sharing News and Politics in a Connected World”
June 28–July 1, 2006 /
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Preliminary program as of June 9,
2006 / subject to change
Individuals working in politics, government, at-large media, cutting-edge information technology organizations, citizen-powered local-news web services, or in teaching and academia share a goal of fostering participatory democracy and community. "Democracy and Independence: Sharing of News in a Connected World" will bring them together to share what's working now, what's coming soon and how to collaborate.
This first gathering of The Media Giraffe Project will observe changes in the structure of the U.S. media industry, the impact of the Internet on its financing, control and ownership, the new relationships among creators and consumers of news, and how democracy is affected.
The conference is designed for:
- traditional media
strategists, editors and practitioners
- elected officials, political
and public-policy strategists
- info-tech pioneers and
entrepreneurs
- operators of local-news
websites and blogs
- podcasters and vloggers
dealing with news, political and public-policy issues.
- academic researchers and
students
- citizens who want "how-to"
knowledge about participatory media
- anyone interested in new
innovations in web, print, film and audio news creation, delivery and
financing.
The event will be a chance to meet and learn from profiled Media Giraffe pioneers. The featured "Media Giraffe Institute/Citizen Media Bootcamp: Lessons from the Frontlines" track will present case studies of emerging local web-based news and community efforts in a "how-to" format designed to teach citizens and mainstream journalists field-tested approaches for two-way, participatory journalism.
The conference begins with a TRACK ONE: “Future of Journalism Roundtable Summit” convening Wednesday evening, June 28, with discussion sessions all day Thursday, June 29. Conference TRACKS 2–5 cover citizen media, politics and the Internet, educating smart media consumers, and the effect of technology and multimedia on journalism. Registration for the Thursday summit includes the right to attend Friday and Saturday conference sessions, too.
An optional extension of TRACK ONE on Friday includes the “Journalism That Matters” seminar for producing actionable ideas for experiments in web-centered, multimedia community journalism.
The speakers, conveners, and session topics are
tentative and are subject to change without notice. Check this page (http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Program_changes)
for updates.
TRACK ONE – Roundtable
Summit
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
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4
p.m.-6 p.m. |
Check-in
for participants in “Future of Journalism Roundtable Summit” (Campus
Center Hotel, 10th or 11th floor) |
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5:00
p.m. –6:00 p.m. Campus
Center Reading Room |
Reading
and book signing by Helen Thomas, Hearst Newspapers White House
columnist, author of the forthcoming,
“Watchdogs of Democracy? The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has
Failed the Public |
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5:30
p.m.-6:30 p.m. |
Informal
reception for Summit participants, Campus Center 10th Floor |
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6:30
p.m.9:45 p.m. 7:45 p.m. 8:00p.m. Amherst Room / 10th
Floor CC 8:30 p.m. –9:45
p.m. Amherst Room |
Dinner,
speakers, and discussion / Campus
Center 10th floor, Amherst Room.
INTRODUCTIONS
-- Janet
Rifkin, dean, UMass College of Social and Behavioral Sciences; Karen List,
journalism director, UMass; Norman
Sims, journalism professor; Bill Densmore MGP director. TALK
– Helen Thomas,
Hearst newspapers columnist -- DISCUSSION:
“How will journalism stay relevant? To whom? In what forms?” CONVENER: Vin Crosbie, Corante Media Hub. DISCUSSANTS: Marty Baron, editor, The
Boston Globe; Teresa Hanafin, editor, Boston.com; Larry McDermott,
publisher The Republican, Springfield, Mass; Ellen Hume, UMass-Boston;
Peter Bhatia, Portland Oregonian;
Helen Thomas, White House columnist, Hearst Newspapers, Jay Rosen, New
York University/PressThink.com Search engines show blog reports get more hits
on a given topic than a New York Times story. Is the traditional
practice of journalism becoming a niche? Or moving toward irrelevance? Or is
journalism simply in need of redefinition and retooling? Once a profession,
or a craft, is journalism now a toolset all citizens need to know? How do
they learn? A town meeting discussion. |
Thursday,
June 29, 2006 – One-day
Future of Journalism Roundtable Summit
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7:00
a.m.-8:00 a.m. |
Continental breakfast for “Future of
Journalism Roundtable Summit” participants. |
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7:30
a.m.-8:30 a.m. |
Check-in
for participants in TRACK ONE: “Future
of Journalism Roundtable Summit” (location:
Campus Center Concourse Lower Level at escalators. |
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8:00
a.m.-8:15 a.m. |
Two-minute
introductions -- Rob Williams/Colin Rinesmith (education), Norman Sims / Bill
Densmore (journalism/citizen journalism), Aldon Hynes/ Ellen Hume (politics),
and Steve Garfield/Tish Grier (multimedia technology) |
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8:15
a.m.-9 :15 a.m. |
OPENING
TALK: “Innovate, Die Or Be Sold: A Prescription for the News Company of
the Future,” by Stephen Gray, executive director, Newspaper Next
initiative of the American Press Institute. |
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9:15
a.m.-10:45 a.m. |
Session
ONE: “Finding a New Definition Of
Journalism” CONVENERS: Tom Rosenstil, Project on Excellence in
Journalism; Jeff Jarvis,
BuzzMachine.com; DISCUSSANTS: Jon Donley, editor, NOLA.com; Helen
Thomas, Hearst Newspapers; Amy Eisman, American University; Josh Wilson,
NewsDesk.org; Chris Peck, Memphis Commercial Appeal; Chris Daly,
Boston University., Robin “Roblimo” Miller, SlashDot.com. How do
you define journalism when every blogger can have a worldwide audience? Are
today’s journalists like yesterday’s pamphleteers? A discussion among a journalism-industry think-tank expert, a
veteran daily editor, two media
educators, a White House columnist,
two web-journalism veterans –
and summit participants. |
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10:45
a.m.-11:00 a.m. |
Media
Café break |
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11:00
a.m.-12:15 p.m. |
Session
TWO: “Quality: How Do You Measure It?” CONVENER:
Fabrice Florin, Newstrust.net. DISCUSSANTS:
John McDermott, Grade the News; Jeffrey Fox, ConsumerPower.org; Peter Phillips, Project Censored; Philip
Meyer, Univ. of North Carolina. If
finding news on the web is getting easier, the proliferation of news sites is
presenting a new challenge – how to judge quality. NewsTrust is a new effort to address the problem. Executive director Fabrice Florin will
describe and demonstrate the project, then respond to constructive criticism
from four experts at judging news quality. |
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12:15
p.m.-12:30 p.m. |
Room/phone/Media
Café break |
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12:30
p.m.-1:45 p.m. |
Lunch,
Campus Center 10th floor (or ballroom) Lunch
Forum: “When the Press Becomes a Pipe, Who Controls?” Co-speakers:
Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America;
Casey Lide, Baller Herbst Law Group.;
Steve Anderson, COA News. Cable and phone giants want to create tiers
of service for delivering content on the Internet, upsetting the concept of
“network neutrality.” Legal, technical and First Amendment experts will
invite summit collaborators to help define the lines between commercial
rights and free-speech obligations, and how municipal ownership of “pipes”
could help |
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1:45
p.m.-2:00 p.m. |
Media Café break |
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2
p.m.-3:45 p.m. |
Session
THREE: “Can Free Media Sustain
Democracy?” CONVENERS: Peter Krasilofsky, Krasilovsky Consulting; Charles Lewis, Center for Public Integrity; David Beers, The Tyee; John Byrne, RawStory.com; Staci Kramer, PaidContent.org While print-newspaper circulation slowly declines, online newspapers are experiencing a Renaissance, reaching new peaks in readership nearly every month. How long will it take before that readership translates to revenue large enough to sustain great, watchdog journalism? Will web advertising alone support today’s newsrooms? Is that an issuefor democracy? And what sort of platform for public debate will emerge? What other funding options are possible? Experts who have considered the issue for a decade forecast the future and listen to summit participants’ predictions, needs and initiatives. |
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3:45
p.m.-4 p.m. |
Media
Café break |
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4
p.m.-5:15 p.m. CC
Reading Room |
Session
FOUR: “Immigrant and Ethnic
Markets: Once Below the Radar; Now a Coveted Revenue Source. Who Should Own the Market?” CONVENERS:
Ellen Hume, UMass Boston; Jerry Villacres, Ethnic Media Project of Boston; Sandy Close, New California Media . Small
newspapers, radio and TV for immigrants were overlooked by mainstream media.
Now these niche audiences are coveted by MSM. How is the web changing the news experience for immigrants and
ethnic populations? What impact does
the “digital divide” have? |
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5:30
p.m.-6:30 p.m. |
SPECIAL
EVENT – (tentative) “The
Philadelphia Experiments” For the
first time in decades, major U.S. metropolitan newspapers are be sold by a
chain to local
owners . At the same time, a
working group of citizens in the city where American independence sprang are
considering what the next news
organization will look like. An
effort to set up a live videoconference between Amherst and Philadelphia is
planned. |
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6:30
p.m.-7:15 p.m. |
Reception
for all conference attendees (including Friday sessions) |
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7:15
p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Dinner 8:15
p.m. – Discussion starts (buffet
desserts, coffee and tea). 9;45
p.m. – Discussion ends. |
Dinner-and-discussion:
“Can Ownership Make a Difference?” CONVENER:
Vin Crosbie, Corante Media Hub. DISCUSSSANTS: Rick Edmonds, The Poynter
Institute; Richard Anderson, VillageSoup.com; Paul Bass, New Haven
Independent; Dave Johnson, Atwater [Wis.] Sunfish Gazette (tentative); Adam Green, MoveOn.org (invited); Dave
Carlson, Univ. of Florida/SPJ. What do
reformers really mean by the term “corporate
media”? Do forms of ownership make a difference? A
dessert-and-discussion town meeting session with corporate governance, family
ownership and non-profit experts unpacking assumptions about this issue. |
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Special
Event – TRACK SIX – THURSDAY AFTERNOON ONLY
|
12:30
p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Special
registration: $40 for
afternoon; no
food; Filmmaking
track only |
CITIZEN MEDIA FILMMAKING
WORKSHOP & FESTIVAL CONVENERS: Aldon Hynes, Ned Lamont Senate Campaign; Steve
Garfield, RocketBoom.com. As digital video cameras become more popular, as people start
taking videos from their cellphones, and as new sites emerge online to
distribute these videos, citizen filmmaking is taking off. Many people will
be simply sharing home movies. Others, however, will want to create documentaries,
political advertisements, and citizen journalism. The Workshop & Festival
will celebrate noteworthy citizen filmmaking and provide workshops for those
wishing to learn how to become more involved. |
Thursday, June 29, 2006
TRACKS TWO, THREE, FOUR,
and FIVE – General Conference
|
4 p.m.
– 9 p.m. |
Conference
check-in, Campus Center Concourse level |
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6:30
p.m.-7:30 p.m. |
Reception
for all conference attendees |
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7:30
p.m. – 9:30 p.m. |
Buy-your-owner
dinner, cafeteria style, in the Blue Wall, with Friday’s
agenda update from track leaders
Christopher Grotke/Lise LePage; Aldon Hynes, Norman Sims, Rob Williams , Steve Garfield and others. |
Friday, June 30, 2006
TRACK TWO:
Citizen
Media Bootcamp: Lessons from the front
TRACK
THREE:
Politics
and the Internet: What’s next?
TRACK
FOUR:
Educating
Smart Media Consumers/Creators
TRACK FIVE:
Technology/Multimedia:
Where’s journalism?
Each track will
present four workshops or panels. In the fifth time slot, the track leader will
manage an optional “Media Café”
collaboration for coffee/tea and discussion.
These collaborations will occur in the Media Café on the Campus Center Concourse
Level.
Friday, June 30, 2006
Special
Event – TRACK ONE OPTIONAL DAY 2
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9:30
a.m.-5:45 p.m. |
“Journalism That Matters:
Looking Beyond the Newsroom Walls” – CONVENERS: Stephen Silha, news consultant;
Chris Peck, daily editor, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn. A
special seminar for working journalists and other stakeholders. Roll up your
sleeves and create experiments in journalism and community storytelling,
explore new economic models, journalism as a conversation, teaching and
learning, as well as changing leadership in the newsroom and the community. |
Friday,
June 30, 2006
Tracks TWO – FIVE
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7:00
a.m.-10:30 a.m. |
Conference
check-in, Campus Center Concourse level |
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7:30
a.m.-9 a.m. |
Continental
breakfast for summit participants (Campus Center Concourse) |
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8 a.m.-
9:15 a.m. GENERAL
SESSION |
Report
from Thursday’s summit: “Setting the scene: What’s the future of
the web and news?” CONVENERS: Dale Peskin, The Media Center at API; Lee
Rainie, the Pew Project on Internet & Society; Tom Rosenstiel, Project on
Excellence in Journalism. A
news-industry futurist, , an Internet
demographics researcher and a key observer and facilitator of online
multimedia news trends forecast the next year and the next decades for the
Fourth Estate. How should media executives, citizen journalists, political
strategists / public officials, educators and technologist prepare and
collaborate? |
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9:15
a.m.-9:30 a.m. |
Media Café break |
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9:30
a.m.-10:15 a.m. TRACK
ONE |
Media – “Experiment
in Collaboration: Can MSM and citizens work together?” PRESENTER: Lew
Friedland, Univ. of Wisconsin and
Madison Commons. A quick summary of
the issues involved in a unique effort by the Madison, Wis., daily
newspapers to join and assist a local citizen-media news collaborative, the
Madison Common. |
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10:30
a.m.-12:30 p.m. TRACK
TWO |
CITIZEN
MEDIA BOOTCAMP
– Morning session 9:30
a.m.-11:30 a.m. – Bootcamp
Orientation: “Why Citizen Journalism?” Can citizens be journalists? A discussion and debate. What is the role of advocacy jouranalism? How does citizen journalism relate to professional media? What are the effects of citzen journalism on the civic arena? Can a lost dog be news . . . and much more. MODERATOR: Tish Grier, editor, Corante Media Hub. DISCUSSANTS: Eesha Williams, author “Grassroots Journalism,” , Ilona Meagher, ePluribus media; Lisa Williams H2OtownLise LePage, iBrattleboro. |
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9:30
a.m.-10:45 a.m. TRACKS
THREE, FOUR AND FIVE (choose
any session) |
Politics
– “The Internet as an Organizing Tool” MODERATOR:
Ralph Whitehead, Univ. of Mass.; DISCUSSANTS: Josh Silver, FreePress.NET; Chellie Pingree, CommonCause; Aldon
Hynes, Ned Lamont Senate campaign; Richard Viguerie, ConservativeHQ.com In
2004, the Internet took the main stage as a political organizing tool for
U.S. political strategists. Learn what’s going on behind the scenes to make
the 2008 presidential race an order of magnitude closer to “digital
democracy” – and what role citizens will play. Education – Media
Café collaboration session Technology – “When
Web Data Makes News” CONVENERS:
Adam Clayton Powell III, University of Southern California; Brant Houston, Investigative Reporters
& Editors; Adrian Holovaty,
WashingtonPost.com. With
search engines, data crawlers and memory by the terabyte, it is becoming ever
easier to crunch previously unimaginable amounts of data from across the web
into useful information. What are the watchdog possibilities – and privacy
dangers – for journalists harnessing newly opened information? |
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10:45
a.m.-11:00 a.m. |
Media
Café break |
|
11:00
a.m.-12:15 p.m. TRACKS THREE, FOUR
AND FIVE |
Politics
– “The Internet as a Government-to-Citizen Tool” CONVENERS:
Stephen Clift, Democracies Online Newswire;
Conor Kenny, CongressPedia.org; Rafael DeGennaro, ReadTheBill.org;
Craig Sandler, State House News Service; Ed Fouhy, StateLine.org (pending). In the
last few years, just about every U.S. community of any size has put up a
website posting meeting notices, accepting tax payments, describing key
issues and, sometimes, pushing political agendas. Learn how government should
be using the net to deepen citizen involvement in governing – and how
citizens can take the upper hand. Education: “Building
Bridges with Blogging — a Case Study”
Bringing together high-school students from Vermont and the Middle East, three nonprofits — Project Harmony, the Action Coalition for Media Education, and Champlain College — are pioneering an effort at teaching media education, digital video production, and cross-cultural youth leadership skills. Hear from their students about what they’re learning through this “media education.” Technology: “The Maine Blogger: A Case Study of a
Blogstorm” CONVENERS:
Robert Cox, Media Bloggers Association; Lance Dutson, Maine Web Report
(defendant); Fred Frawley, Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios (attorney
for WKPA); and Greg Herbert, Greenberg Traurig (attorney for Lance Dutson).
When
New York ad agency Warren, Kremer, Paino Advertising filed a seven figure
federal lawsuit against blogger Lance Dutson, an unknown gadfly was transformed
overnight into a First Amendment martyr. When the lawsuit was withdrawn
amidst a withering media campaign organized by the Media Bloggers Association,
the "Maine Blogger" became a cause celebre in the blogosphere. Join us
as we go behind the scenes with the key players to examine the legal issues
raised by the case, the blogstorm which erupted and the implications for
citizen journalists and the businesses and government officials they cover. |
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Noon-1:15
p.m. |
SPECIAL
EVENT – “Is it time to build the New England Common?” CONVENER:
Christopher Lydon, Open Source Radio. Does
New England need a virtual meeting place for discussion and action on
politics, culture, environment and living?
Could the Massachusetts governor’s race be a catalyst to establish
one? An idea session. More info: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Newengland
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12:15
p.m.-12:30 p.m. |
Media
Café break |
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12:30
p.m.-2:00 p.m. |
Buffet
lunch (Amherst Room or Campus Center Ballroom) “Is Media Performance Democracy’s
Critical Issue?” SPEAKER: Tom
Stites, Center for Public Integrity; Thirty
years ago, if your policy message was on the three networks, The New York
Times or the Washington Post, it spread quickly across America. We
are now in an era of micr0-media – blogs, email, dozens of networks and cable
channels, multimedia chaos and creativity.
Political strategists who disagree on issues often agree that media
structure and performance is now their No. 2 issue. Has the state of our media become the most important threat to
participatory democracy? Why? |
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1:30
p.m.-3:30 p.m. |
CitiMedia Bootcamp -- “Citizen Journalism in Action: A Practicum” An overview of web-based citizen journalims in action with an emphasis on doing it yourself. The panel will look at examples of successful citizen-journalism projects and issues of interest to those looking to launch such ventures themselves – how to get started, add interactivity and features, and tackle technical issues as well as build participation, create policies and procedures and relate to the community at large. MODERATOR: Lisa Williams, H2Otown. DISCUSSANTS: Christopher Grotke, iBrattleboro, Maureen Mann, Philbrick James Forum; Gordon Joseloff, Westport Now; Dan Barlow, reporter and citi-J site user. |
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2:00
p.m.-3:30 p.m. TRACK
ONE EXTRA |
Media
– “Can old media be part of the
new news ecology? CONVENER: Michael Skoler, Center for Innovation in Journalism; DISCUSSANTS: Barry Parr, CoastSider.com; Jiah Kim, FreeSpeechTV; Michael Tippett, NowPublic.com (tentative); David Platt, Island Institute, Maine., Kevin Howley, DePauw University; Scott Brodeur, MassLive (main-stream “new media” perspective); Paul Thomas, ePluribusMedia. Early
leaders at running sites, covering the emerging field and actively
participating will manage a Town Meeting discussion with all participants. |
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2:00
p.m.-3:30 p.m. TRACKS THREE, FOUR & FIVE |
Politics –– “Anonymity and identity:
Journalists/bloggers sources and whistleblowers” CONVENER: Shava Nerad, Tor Coalition. DISCUSSANTS: Steve Clift, Democracies Online Newswire, Derek Anderson, VillageSoup.COM. Join a reporter who became a technologist and now helps protect political dissidents who need anonymity in a debates over anonymity vs. identity. News websites, and local online community sites debate whether to allow anonymous comments. Is anonymity ever justified? Who’s responsible? Is anonymous posting ever journalism? What is the impact on sources, on news gathers, on whistleblowers, as the government seeks the ability to track search queries? Education
– “Creating Digital Video For
Classrooms – a Case Study” WORKSHOP
PRESENTER: James Valastro, MemeFILMS, Vermont (www.memefilms.org). Fusing media education and digital video
production in the K-12 classroom, MemeFILMS has been working with Vermont
schools for three years. Explore how to make mini-DV media and public
health/news stories with K-12 students in this exciting hands-on workshop. Technology
– “News a la Carte – Fracturing The Public Sphere?” CONVENERS:
Holmes Wilson, Participatory Culture Foundation; Thomas Marban, PopUrls.com;
Jonathan Dube, CBC.CA (pending). Consumers
can now paste together their version of a news event from multiple sources in
seconds. What’s the impact of news a la carte on understanding and
what new technologies feed this trend? How does it fracture the public sphere
– or enrich it? |
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3:30
p.m.-4:15 p.m. |
Media
Café and free ice cream social, courtesy of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. |
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4:15
p.m.-5:30 p.m. BREAKOUT FOUR |
Citizen
Media – “Your Project: Expert Feedback” CO-CONVENER:
George White, UCLA Center for Communications & Community. Any and all citizen journalists are
invited to be on hand to provide advice to others. Designed to provide real
interaction between attendees hoping to sart or strengthen their own
projects. Join citizen-media veterans, as participants, for an idea exchange.
Come prepared to tell others what your project is about and specific problems
you face. Fellow participants and experts will provide feedback, suggestions
and ideas specifically for you. Politics:
“The Internet As An Advocacy Tool – Case Studies” CONVENER:
Mica Sifry, Personal Democracy Forum (tentative); Adam Green, MoveOn.org (invited) , Karen “Jo” Lee,
CitizenSpeak.org and Frederick Clarkson, Talk2Action.org; Steve Anderson, CoaNews.org (invited) Costly
direct mail was once the only effective way for public policy non-profits to
reach the faithful. The Internet is now the most efficient advocacy,
motivational, and fund-raising tool in the NGO arsenal. How is the Internet
changing public policy formulation? Who’s winning? Who’s losing? Education
– “Morphing from Music: iPods enter the Classroom” Technology:
“Who Will Narrow the Digital Divide?” CONVENER:
Case Lide, Baller Herbst Law Group.
DISCUSSANTS: Wally Bowen, Mountain
Area Information Network; Josh Silver, FreePress.net As
music, movies, news, archives and other data increasingly are delivered
on-demand over the Internet rather than in physical form, first-class
citizenship requires a high-speed connection. Who’s left in steerage? How can
technology narrow the digital divide? A look at municipal wireless
initiatives. |
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5:30
p.m.-5:45 p.m. |
Media
Café -- networking / discussion |
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5:45
p.m.-6:30 p.m. |
Campus
Center Reading Room – reception and hor d’oeuvres for all attendees. (Spill
out into CC Concourse) |
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6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. DINNER 7::30 p.m.-8:15
p.m. SPEECH 8:15 p.m.-9:30 p.m. DISCUSSION |
Dinner
and discussion, Amherst Room, 10th Floor SPEAKER: Dr. Rob Williams, president,
Action Coalition for Media Education; professor, Champlain College,
Burlington, Vermont: “Why Doesn’t
Johnny Care? How Media Can Bringing Young Adults Back Into The Public Sphere” Young adults have abandoned the news as presented in traditional forms. Newspaper and TV users are aging. But they are heavy media consumers. What will put public affairs back into their diet? And why does it matter? ; DISCUSSANTS: Andrea Frantz, Wilkes
University; Melissa Krodman, Project Think Different; Mark Lopez, CIRCLE
(tentative). |
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9:30
p.m.-11:00 p.m. Campus
Center |
Media
Café Extra: “War Stories – Avoiding Other’s Mistakes” An
informal session for all participants able to share “war stories” from the
trenches of citizen journalism. What has been your worst experience? Share your
nightmares and tales of woe over beer, wine or whatever. |
Saturday, July 1,
2006
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7:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m. |
Continental
breakfast for summit participants (
Campus Center Reading Room /
Media Cafe) |
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8:30
a.m.-9:45 a.m. TRACKS
TWO, THREE, FOUR AND FIVE |
Politics:
“Political Blogs: Free Speech or Campaigning?” CONVENERS:
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash; Richard Howe, LowellDems.org; Steve Brant,
Trimtab/HuffingtonPost blogger; Steve Fox, WashingtonPost.com The
1970s-era campaign-finance reform may become irrelevant as blogs and websites
funded by partisan political groups become a primary source of campaign spin
and faux news. Can laws be
written to regulate the financing of partisan websites that won’t infringe on
free speech? Are they needed? Technology: “Merging Forms: Is the Medium Still the
Message?” CONVENERS:
Steve Garfield, Rocketboom.com; Paul Grabowicz, University of California
Berkeley; Robb Montgomery, VisualEditors.com Blogging…
reporters who pack a camera, MP3 recorder and a notepad … 24/7 deadlines …is
journalism using technology or the other way around? As the information fire
hose reaches full pressure, is wisdom increasing too? Citizen
Media: “The Daily Grind” Discuss
the day-to-day operation of a citizen-journalism site project, from
moderating submissions and comments, setting a tone, dealing with users,
building traffic, selling ads and other facets of running a
citizen-journalism outlet.
DISCUSSANTS from the Philbrick James Forum, H2Otown, VillageSoup.com,
WestportNow.com, CTNewsJunkie.com,
the New Haven Independent, ePluribus Media and other sites.
CONVENER:
Donna M. Liu, University Channel, Princeton University. The
combination of ubiquitous high-speed connections in schools and archives of
streaming and downloadable video/audio lectures and news add new options for
classroom curriculum. Who’s
innovating? A survey and demonstrations. |
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10:00
a.m.-11:15 a.m. |
Media
Café collaboration and Track meet-ups for “next step” ideas: Topic
ideas: POLITICS:
Pitching the big tent TECHNOLOGY:
Making adoption easy CITIZEN MEDIA:
Inviting participation EDUCATION:
Making media cool |
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11:15
a.m.-12:45 p.m. CLOSING
SESSION AND BOX LUNCHES |
Location:
Campus Center Reading Room “What
Did We Learn” -- Reports from track managers or designees “Speak to the
Group” – Moderated open microphone
session Closing
Talk: “Keeping Participatory Democracy Alive: Talking Across The Divides
Of Media, Politics, Education And Technology.” CONVENER:
Norman Sims, UMass Amherst and
principal investigator, Media Giraffe Project |
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12:45
p.m. |
Conference
Ends |
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1:30
p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Independent
meet-ups and outdoor bootcamps |
POST-CONFERENCE
MEET-UPS: Independent
groups with membership at the conference hold planning or strategy sessions
in rooms provided at no additional charge by the Media Giraffe Project and
UMass Amherst: MUSEUMS 10 – at WikiPedia / ACTIVITIES/TRIPS: (LINK: Amherst area) INDIVIDUAL
LINKS: Hiking:
Mount Toby, the Norwottuck Trail Rafting on the
Deerfield River (Charlemont, Mass.) Historic
Deerfield or Yankee
Candle (South Deerfield, Mass.) Amherst College
Mead Art Museum (Amherst) Amherst
College Museum of Natural History Smith College
Museum of Art (Northampton) National
Yiddish Book Center (South Amherst) Emily
Dickens House Museum (Amherst) Official NBA
Basketball Hall of Fame (Springfield, Mass.) Mass. Museum of
Contemporary Art (North Adams, Mass.) |
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Saturday
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Events
in the Five College Area: Tanglewood (BSO-Lenox, Mass. –Garrison
Keillor / Prairie Home Companion Live, 5:45 p.m., Sat., July 1) |
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