{"id":187,"date":"2010-05-29T07:33:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T15:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/detroit\/?p=187"},"modified":"2010-05-29T07:33:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T15:33:17","slug":"ingebords-chat-with-michelle-ferrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/detroit\/2010\/05\/29\/ingebords-chat-with-michelle-ferrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingeborg&#8217;s chat with Michelle Ferrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by inge on Sat, 05\/29\/2010 &#8211; 7:33am<br \/>\n<strong> Session Reporter:<\/strong> Ingeborg Endter<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Conversationalist 1:<\/strong> Ingeborg Endter<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conversationalist 2:<\/strong> Michelle Ferrier<\/p>\n<p>Michelle is also a lifelong learner. She had a very interesting path  to her present interest in interactive media. She started in high school  working at Goddard Space Flight Center. She was working on digitizing  images from satellites. Those images have become what we see today as  Google maps and Google Earth. She&#8217;s interested in alternative stories  that help a community see themselves and their relationships. She did  this using the metaphor of a quilt.<\/p>\n<p>Her academic work has focussed on hyper-local community news using a  social network interface. In the social network one comes to learn where  the knowledge is in the community.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle is currently a Professor in Interactive Media at Elon  University in Greensboro NC. She and her students have recreated a  Museum of Civil Rights in Second Life.<\/p>\n<p>She describes herself as the &#8220;chief instigator&#8221; for the JTM meeting  in Detroit. After attending some other JTM meetings, she decided that we  need more such meetings for people of color. Diversity is a very  important ingredient in creating the new media landscape. And achieving  that diversity is Michelle&#8217;s goal for this meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by inge on Sat, 05\/29\/2010 &#8211; 7:33am Session Reporter: Ingeborg Endter Conversationalist 1: Ingeborg Endter Conversationalist 2: Michelle Ferrier Michelle is also a lifelong learner. She had a very interesting path to her present interest in interactive media. She &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/detroit\/2010\/05\/29\/ingebords-chat-with-michelle-ferrier\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-conference-conversation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/detroit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/detroit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/detroit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/detroit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/detroit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/detroit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/detroit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/detroit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/detroit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}