Media Re:public
Participatory Media – Surveying the Field in 2008
March 27-28, 2008
All events are at the USC Annenberg School for Communication 3502 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA.
Thursday, March 27
18:00 - 18:30 Registration East Lobby
18: 30 - 20:00 Opening Conversation Auditorium
Introductory Remarks
Ernest Wilson, USC Annenberg
Media Re:public
How we got here, what we
hope to do together
Elspeth Revere, MacArthur Foundation
John Palfrey, Berkman Center
Our Audiences, Ourselves
How
participatory media has and hasn’t revolutionized the news
Richard Sambrook, BBC Global News
20:00 Cocktail Reception East Lobby
Friday, March 28
8:30 – 9:00 Registration & Coffee
9:00 – 10:30 Framing the Discussion East Lobby
Introduction
John Palfrey
Power
& Media in the Networked Environment
Manuel Castells, USC Annenberg
Agreeing
on Principles
Defining the qualities of information our democracy needs
Roberto Suro, USC Annenberg
The
Networked Difference
How new technologies and behaviors are changing the news
David Weinberger, Berkman Center
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 Parsing
the Political Blogosphere
It is not easy to know what is going on in the
blogosphere, where authority is fluid and influence mechanism are not obvious.
We look at new methods to
get beyond anecdotes in exploring these issues.
John Kelly, Berkman Center &
Columbia School of Journalism
Discussants: Ellen Hume, MIT
Center for Future Civic Media; Doc Searls, Berkman Center
11:30 – 12:30 Breakouts – Research
Questions Auditorium & ASC 204-2
Understanding the Media Ecosystem | Defining Success, Measuring Impact |
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (birds of a feather
discussions optional) East Lobby
13:30 – 13:45 Citizen McCaw – Documentary
film Auditorium
The film
chronicles events since July 2006, when editor Jerry Roberts and five of his
colleagues quit the Santa Barbara News-Press, citing owner and co-publisher
Wendy McCaw's abandonment of journalistic ethics, which McCaw denied. Since
then, McCaw and dozens of her former staffers have been engaged in a fierce
clash of wills that raises important national questions of journalistic ethics
and media ownership. Citizen McCaw was produced pro bono by four
13:45 – 14:45 Plenary II Auditorium
It’s 2013: Do You Know Where Your News Is?
Examining scenarios for the future
One of the few areas of agreement among
observers of the news environment is that there is much more change to come.
There are challenges and opportunities for all involved and both start-ups and
legacy media are unsure whether they will survive the next decade. Decisions
made in the next few years may have enormous consquences for the breadth and
quality of news coverage, depending on which niches thrive and which types of
media don't survive. In this session we’ll discuss scenarios that illustrate
possible outcomes over the next 5-10 years.
Moderator: Jonathan
Zittrain, Berkman Center
Futurists:
David Cohn, digidave.org
Jennifer Ferro,
KCRW
Jon Funabiki, San Francisco University
Jonathan Krim, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive
Solana
Larsen, Global Voices
Paul Steiger,
Editor-in-Chief, ProPublica
Jonathan Taplin, USC Annenberg
Lisa Williams, Placeblogger.com
14:45 – 16:15 Breakouts –
Translating Research into Action Location
TBA
Supporting the Emerging Media Ecology Discussants: Tony Pierce, LA Times; Wendy Seltzer, Chilling Effects; Nathaniel James, Media & Democracy Coalition; Farai Chideya, NPR | Finding Viable Models |
16:15-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 – 17:30 Closing Conversation
Reviewing the
Day, Action Points
Moderator: Jake Shapiro, PRX
Closing Remarks
Ernest Wilson