Future of Public Media

This week our colleagues at American University's Center for Social Media released a new report:

Public Media 2.0: Dynamic, Engaged Publics, by Future of Public Media Project Director Jessica Clark and Center for Social Media Director Pat Aufderheide.

They describe the paper as follows:

...this report offers an expanded vision for public media: multiplatform, participatory, and centered around informing and mobilizing networks of engaged users. Showcasing trends and experiments from the "first two minutes" of public media 2.0, the report provides a map of opportunities and ways to make the most of them. It also suggests that public broadcasting could play a central role in public media 2.0—but only if the medium is properly restructured and supported.

Pat Aufderheide and Jessica Clark also contributed an issue paper to Berkman's recently released Media Re:public series. Check out their paper on public broadcasting and public affairs, along with the many other essays and case studies, at the Media Re:public paper series download site.