SYDNEY – Critics here are sniping at the Australian government's plan to build optical fiber links to almost all homes here, at an estimated cost of $43 billion. The criticism is that the plan is going forward according to a plan devised years ago – a plan which assumes personal computers would be the way Australians connect to the Internet. At the time, that was correct. But now, with the unexpected surge of mobile devices as a primary medium and with the rise of smart phones as the way people reach the Internet, critics are saying the project could……
Month: January 2013
Top media executives & scholars at CCLP forum on women & diversity in communication leadership
Former FOX and Paramount president Gail Berman and Telemundo Chief Operating Officer Jaqueline Hernandez are among the featured guests headlining a timely USC Annenberg leadership forum, "Championing Women & Diversity in Communication Leadership." ……
CCLP Washington, DC policy forum: Media Ownership and the Public Interest
The University of Southern California Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy and the New America Foundation's Media Policy Initiative present a discussion with industry leaders and top policymakers on media ownership and the public interest. The event will take place on Thursday, Jan. 24 from 2:00-4:30 p.m ET at the Newseum in Washington, DC. Webcast:……
How Mobile Phones And The Internet Fight (And Help) Human Trafficking
Fast Company: Research director Mark Latonero's groundbreaking research on mobile phones and human trafficking highlighted by Fast Company…….
Experience Trumps Hope In Obama’s 2nd-Term Cabinet Selections
NPR: Senior fellow Dan Glickman gives analyst commentary on President Obama's Cabinet 2.0 decisions…….
Social media viewed as critical tool for cultural diplomacy
WASHINGTON – Facebook, Twitter and other digital social network tools are now integral to cultural diplomacy and arts exchanges, according to presenters at today's CCLP Washington DC "First Monday" forum. Anita Maynard-Losh, Director of Community Engagement for Washington's Arena Stage complex, said she uses Facebook to link twelve ensembles in the U.S. with four theater groups in India…….
NEAL BAER: EMPOWERING HEALTH AND SOCIETY THROUGH STORYTELLING
Fast Company: Senior fellow Neal Baer "helped pioneer the partnership between medicine, entertainment, health education, and social policy–using storytelling as the vehicle to inform."……
What Is Real and What Is Reality
truthdig: Senior fellow Richard Reeves discusses Hollywood's successful foray into warfare film depictions and the Oscar buzz that surrounds them…….
10,000 Days With Catherine O’Neill
truthdig: Senior fellow Richard Reeves delivers heartfelt memorial to his loving wife of 33 years, Catherine O'Neill…….
Al Jazeera Is Said to Be Acquiring Current TV
New York Times: Faculty fellow Philip Seib quoted about the latest aquisition of Current TV by Al Jazeera…….