Table Topics
What news and information innovations are activating diverse communities?
Media providers share their work through informal displays and conversations. Here are the topics:
Contact: Jasiri X
Hip-Hop news videos. Each Episode Of “This Week With Jasiri X” features Your Hip-hop News Anchor Jasiri X reporting the National news over the hottest beats. For weeks Jasiri X has provided a rapidly growing internet audience with a most creative and interesting delivery of the weekly news. Using lyrical skills, controversial subject matter, and phat beats, Jasiri X shows and proves that real Hip-hop is not in the least bit dead. Chuck D of Public Enemy once boldly declared that “Hip-hop was the CNN of the ghetto”, no artist has better embraced and embodied that concept than Jasiri X. “This Week With Jasiri X is The Best TV That Aint’ On TV” – Paradise Gray (X-Clan)
Contact: Mani Saint-Victor
Brass Monkey’s patent pending technology transforms an iPhone or other smart device into an intuitive controller for web based single or multi-player games. Using Brass Monkey software, experiences previously only available through game consoles like Nintendo Wii are now possible using WiFi enabled electronics. Brass Monkey provides fully immersive experiences with displays ranging from personal computers, Internet enabled TVs, kiosks and large billboards. Our mission is to build and deploy developer tools that will become the worldwide standard for use in connecting mobile devices and displays.
Citizen Media Law Project, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
Contact: Jeff Hermes
The Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) is hosted by Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a research center founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. CMLP’s mission is to provide assistance, training, research, and other resources for individuals and organizations involved in online and citizen media. We aim to serve as a catalyst for creative thinking about the intersection of law and journalism on the Internet. Through the project’s website, the active engagement of lawyers and scholars, and occasional sponsored conferences, we are working to build a community of lawyers, academics, and others who are interested in facilitating citizen participation in online media and protecting the legal rights of those engaged in speech on the Internet. CMLP’s newest endeavor is the Online Media Legal Network (OMLN), a pro bono initiative that connects lawyers and law school clinics from across the country with online journalists an digital media creators who need legal help.
Contact: Elwin Green
The basic idea of Homewood Nation is very simple – that those of us who do care share a bond stronger than any distances that lie between us, especially in the age of the Internet. Just as Steeler Nation comprises fans of the Black and Gold around the globe, Homewood Nation is made up of those who care about Homewood, wherever they may be.
Contact: Chris Rabb
Writer, consultant and speaker Chris Rabb coined the term “invisible capital” to represent those unseen forces that dramatically impact business viability when hard work, a great idea and a good attitude simply aren’t enough. In his book, Invisible Capital: How Unseen Forces Shape Entrepreneurial Opportunity, Rabb puts forth concrete and effective ways entrepreneurs and their advocates can build and grow sustainable enterprises amid these unseen forces created by society’s uneven playing field. By honoring democratic ideals, challenging assumptions, and reframing how success is defined, Rabb illuminates the promise of commonwealth entrepreneurship. This compelling and often counter-intuitive book illustrates how broad and meaningful entrepreneurial opportunity benefits not just individual entrepreneurs, but local communities and society at large.
Contact: Michelle Ferrier
Locavore/sustainability online community building social capital and real markets where we live.
Contact: Norm Roulet
REALNEO is an open, free social network and Content Management System of a non-profit cooperative of individuals – REAL.COOP – interested in arts and culture, economy, education, environment, health and technology. REALNEO has a focus on North East Ohio – NEO – but REAL.COOP has global membership and perspectives. Through our cooperative social media initiatives, we are stopping coal power plants, battling government corruption, and transforming our economy.
