On May 26, Research Director Mark Latonero and Professor Aram Sinnreich (Rutgers University) presented "Nowadays It's Like Remix World": The Hidden Demography of New Media Ethics at the International Communication Association conference in Phoenix, AZ. The paper was a part of the panel "Participatory, Promotional Cultures: 'Sharing' and Self-Representation in the Contemporary Media Moment." CCLP funded this project as a part of its Technology & Social Change initiative. The paper examines the explosion of new "configurable" cultural forms and practices, such as mashups, remixes and machinima, enabled by rapidly changing global digital network technologies. While these new cultural forms, which……
Month: May 2012
Latonero quoted on Anderson Cooper
Research Director Mark Latonero is quoted regarding Backpage advertisements on Anderson Cooper. 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");……
Curtin and Hughes’ digital outreach team grows
Senior fellow Jeremy Curtin and Karen Hughes' Digital Outreach Team grows into the operation described 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");……
Ford Foundation grant signals shift away from public broadcasting
The Ford Foundation, which for decades funded much of public broadcasting, last week shifted its media grantmaking to a different medium – newspapers. The Los Angeles Times announced the $1 million grant, which according to the Times will pay for reporters to cover "Vietnamese, Korean and other immigrant communities, the California prison system, the border region and Brazil." The Times story noted that the new Brazil-based reporter will be the newspaper's first full-time correspondent in Latin America in "several years." Until now, the Ford Foundation has been more closely associated with public radio and television. Ford used to give National……