To improve NATO's digital connectivity NATO's Public Diplomacy Division hosted a workshop called "The Power of Soft Power- NATO's Public Diplomacy in the Digital World" on Tuesday (27 March) 2012. In this YouTube clip CCLP Faculty Fellow Philip Seib describes soft power as essential in international relations as an important alternative to relying heavily on hard power. In what he sees as the 'information century' Seib believes this is increasingly possible as the internet and social media empowers people by informing them, leading to increased participation in politics and greater democratization. Watch here. Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");……
Month: March 2012
Health Care: We’re All in This Together
CCLP Senior Fellow Richard Reeves weighs in on the pressing health care debacle in his latest installment for truthdig. What are your thought's on Obamacare? Read more here. Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");……
Gary AP Appointment
CCLP advisory board member Gary Pruitt was named last week as the new President and CEO of The Associated Press. Here's a link to AP's story…….
Panelists find progress in free flow of information worldwide
WASHINGTON – Speakers at a CCLP forum at the Newseum provided mostly positive assessments of worldwide freedom of information. Vint Cerf, widely described as "father of the Internet," said the combination of the Internet with mobile telephones has extended freedom of information to billions of people worldwide. If there is a better technology, he added, he doesn't know about it – or he would be investing in it. Cerf, who serves as Google's vice president and chief Internet evangelist (yes, that's his official title), did express a concern. Governments and politicians keep trying to control the Internet, just as governments……
Nagourney, Kennard, Dotan, and Winograd talk campaign politics post-Super Tuesday in latest Road to White House installment
In collaboration with USC's Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise and the Unruh Institute of Politics, CCLP hosted the most recent installment of the weekly Road to the White House speaker series yesterday. This week's topic was "Politics, Media, and the Presidential Primaries after Super Tuesday." The panel that led this discussion was moderated by CCLP senior fellow and former White House Senior Policy Advisor, Morley Winograd. He was joined by Tom Dotan, editor-at-large for Neon Tommy; Los Angeles Bureau Chief and former Chief National Political Correspondent for the New York Times Adam Nagourney; and finally by……
CCLP and the Annenberg School file FCC comment advocating for multi-disciplinary research on localism and diversity
On March 5th, 2012, the CCLP and the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism filed comments in response to the FCC's Notice of Proposed Rule Making regarding the 2010 Quadrennial Regulatory Review, Review of the Commission's Broadcast Ownership Rules (FCC MB Docket No. 09-182) and Promoting Diversification of Ownership in the Broadcast Services (FCC MB Docket No. 07-294). The CCLP and the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism submitted the comments on behalf of the Communication Policy Research Network (CPRN), a national consortium of non-partisan and multidisciplinary social scientists, legal scholars, journalists, and communication experts. This group has spent……