Center for Citizen Media Report and Podcast
Over the past year, I have been very fortunate through working at the Berkman Center to have been able to assist Dan Gillmor as a Fellow working on developing his Center for Citizen Media.
This week, two important contributions to the project have been submitted online both available for download.
First, is a terrific report (Master’s project) from Hsing Wei, graduate student at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, titled “The Hype vs. Reality vs. What People Value: Emerging Collaborative News Models and the Future of News”. It’s available for download here. Wei’s survey is licensed under a Creative Commons license, which is really great and has motivated me to do the same for my grad project at Emerson.
Second, I am pleased to announce that AudioBerkman (which I help produce for the Berkman Center) has teamed with “hyperlocal blogger” Lisa Williams, of H2OTown, to collaborate on a series of Center for Citizen Media Podcasts.
In the inagural podcast, Lisa speaks with Nashvilleistalking.com’s chief listener, Brittney Gilbert on how traditional news outlets are embracing new communications technologies like blogging to connect with readers and create opportunities for citizen paricipation.
