Monthly Archives: April 2011
Digital Citizen 2012
Convener: Evelyn Messinger Participants: Janet Jai, Anne Raci, Jaqueline Woolcott Description: Digital Citizen 2012 is a converged media project that will seamlessly connect citizens online and via their mobile phones to televised election discussion programs, leveling the playing field between … Continue reading
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Session Host: Katie Ingersoll Participan…
Session Host: Katie Ingersoll Participants Amy Radermacher Jack Brighton Joy Mayer Colin Rhinesmith Louis Battalen Chelsea Gunn Meredith McCulloch Barbara Jones Melody Ng Alex Kelly Jan Harrington Khara Whitmey-Marsh Eileen McAdam We spoke of how libraries and local media outlets, … Continue reading
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Tagged publicmedia collaboration libraries communitymedia
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Is it possible to create a global information network for investigative journalists?
Session Host: Dorothy Carner Participants: Suzie Katz, Troy Espe, Tina Cheng, Helen Grosso Questions: 1. How can we create networks of global journalists and librarians to help investigative journalists have access to information currently unavailable? 2. How could we fund … Continue reading
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How should we redefine “public” and “access” to facilitate new media literacies?
Session Hosts: Lauren Britton Smedley and Rory Solomon Participants: Amy Ryan, Debbie Walter, Amy Radermacher, Jorge Schement, Jeanine Finn, Jessica Smith, Jen Gilomen, Khara Whitney-Marsh, Dana Walker, Katie Ingersoll, Eileen McAdam, Michelle Fellows, Kevin O’Kelly, Karen Perry, Tom Lowenhaupt, Alan … Continue reading
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Tagged access, community engagement, digital literacy, libraries, media literacy, ownership, public, social contract, sustainability
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How can we TRUST community engagement, especially among teens, to build to civic engagement? And support that trust via our institutions?
Participants Chelsea Gunn: from the Boston Street Lab/UNI Jack Harris: MLIS student from Rutgers/journalist with Patch Suzanne Searle: activist, works at VA Hospital Shannon Crawford Barniskis: Youth Services Librarian in Horicon, WI/MLIS student UW Milwaukee SOIS. We had the perfect … Continue reading
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Tagged art, civic engagement, community engagement, education, farmers markets, subcultures, trust
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How can we build long-term engagement from crisis engagement?
Session Host/Reporter: Liza Barry-Kessler Participants: Jack Harris, Anna Raya-Rivera, Caroline Nappo, Lacey Mamak, Anne Raci, Catherine Odson, Gina Perille, Nancy Kranich, David Gordon, Charles Benton, Dana Walker Discussion: The discussion began with dialog about how different kinds of crises engage … Continue reading
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What would happen if Beyond Books forged a consensus statement on libraries, journalism and participatory democracy?
From an “action step” session, the notes are in a blog post: https://journalismthatmatters.org/biblionews/2011/04/07/link-forging-a-consensus-on-libraries-journalism-and-participatory-democracy/ The session was called by Nancy Kranich
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Tagged biblionews, civic, collaboration, engagement, journalism, jtm, librarians, libraries, media, MIT, news
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How can we leverage 100,000+ news sources and libraries to gather stories and useful information? (3 pm)
Host/reporter: Melody Ng Participants: Leigh Montgomery Katy Aronoff Katie Ingersoll Debbie Holmes Michelle Fellows Cynthia Orozco Alpha Delap Eileen McAdam Debbie Walter Khara Whitney-Marsh Tom Flanagan Background We currently have more than 100,000 people in the Public Insight Network who … Continue reading
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Tagged collaboration, crowd sourcing, news coverage, project ideas
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Breakout session: working together for community engagement
Topic: Collaboration around community engagement/how the library can be a catalyst for civic engagement Conveners: Joy Mayer and Tina Stewart (Joy and Tina’s topics seemed to have a similar focus so they decided to combine the session.) Participants: Lauren Britten … Continue reading
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How can we engage underserved communitie…
How can we engage underserved communities to understand their information needs, create knowledge, increase social capital and strengthen the institutions committed to both? Melody Ng, Allison Payne, Colin Wilkins, Andrew White, Linda Fantin, Tom Stites, Louis Battelen, Christine , Leigh … Continue reading
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Tagged citizen journalism, immigrants, innovation, libraries, teens
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