The Struggle Over Local Media: An Interview With Eric Klinenberg (Part One)
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffBy Henry Jenkins Earlier this summer, I moderated a panel on "News, Nerds and Nabes': How Will Future Generations of Americans Learn About the Local" as part of a conference which the MIT Center for Future Civic ...
FilmAid: Informing and Entertaining Refugees through the Power of Film
Friday, July 10th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffNominated by the Worldchanging team Nonprofit, humanitarian aid organization <a href=" http://filmaid.org/">FilmAid travels to refugee camps around the world to provide entertainment and essential education through film. Millions of people live in refugee camps, and many ...
FilmAid: Informing and Entertaining Refugees through the Power of Film
Friday, July 10th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffNominated by the Worldchanging team Nonprofit, humanitarian aid organization <a href=" http://filmaid.org/">FilmAid travels to refugee camps around the world to provide entertainment and essential education through film. Millions of people live in refugee camps, and many ...
The Uptake: Collaborative Online Citizen Journalism
Thursday, July 9th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffNominated by Sarah Kuck As newspaper giants continue to go under, many news readers and creators continue to speculate on what will take their place. One answer: citizen journalism. A conglomeration of bloggers and freelancers has ...
The Uptake: Collaborative Online Citizen Journalism
Thursday, July 9th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffNominated by Sarah Kuck As newspaper giants continue to go under, many news readers and creators continue to speculate on what will take their place. One answer: citizen journalism. A conglomeration of bloggers and freelancers has ...
The Research Channel: Offering In-Depth Access to Leading Institutions
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffEvery WorldChanging reader is familiar with TEDTalks. The longer lectures at the Research Channel are an excellent complement. With over 3500 lectures from leading research institutions on everything from low-cost diagnostics to new space technologies, ...
Gwynne Dyer’s Climate Wars: Now a Radio Series
Monday, July 6th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffThe security dimensions of climate change provide the backdrop for Dyer's Climate Wars, an unflinching look at potential geopolitical consequences of rising seas and falling water and food supplies. The core text is interspersed with scenarios ...
Chris Csikszentmihayli and a Complex Vision of Citizen Media
Friday, June 19th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffChris Csikszentmihayli opens the morning’s session at MIT’s Knight News Challenge conference with an overview of his view of the world - “It’s my view from MIT - MIT wouldn’t endorse it, they’ve been quite specific ...
Local Perspectives At Beyond Broadcast 2009
Friday, June 5th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffThe opening panel discussion at BeyondBroadcast is titled "Local Perspectives" and it invites citizen media innovators from around the world to show off their work. Unfortunately for the schedule, the panel includes six terrific speakers, roughly ...
TED Embraces Social Translation
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffMy friends at TED have launched an exciting new project today, the TED Open Translation Project. It's a powerful system to allow the "social translation" of their video content. This tool demonstrates the state of the ...
Worldchanging Review: Planet Forward
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffOnly a handful of mainstream media sources are producing quality environmental journalism these days. But the Public Broadcasting Service still is -- and is proving it with a new web and TV project called Planet ...
Journalism, Recession, and Climate Change
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffUSA Today is reporting that CO2 emissions are falling because of the global recession. I'm sure that's true. Yet I'm worried that the media is looking for evidence that folks who are concerned about climate change ...
Worldchanging Media Round Up
Monday, March 30th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffWhether it arrived in our inbox or our mailbox, some truly amazing media has shown up recently at Worldchanging Headquarters. And it's time once again to share what we've been receiving. The tone of most of the ...
Worldchanging Media Round Up
Monday, March 30th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffWhether it arrived in our inbox or our mailbox, some truly amazing media has shown up recently at Worldchanging Headquarters. And it's time once again to share what we've been receiving. The tone of most of the ...
The only way a reporter ought to look at a climate skeptic is down.
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffHaving wasted 20 years here in the U.S. on a completely non-factual "debate" about whether fossil fuels were implicated in climate change, it's a bit shocking to see this story by Azadeh Ensha, where an industry-funded ...
Tank Riot, Smart Cities and Long Now
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffAs previously mentioned in my post about the LSE podcasts, I listen to a lot of online interviews, lectures and radio programs. While often I'll flit from podcaster to podcaster as I hear of shows that ...
Tank Riot, Smart Cities and Long Now
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffAs previously mentioned in my post about the LSE podcasts, I listen to a lot of online interviews, lectures and radio programs. While often I'll flit from podcaster to podcaster as I hear of shows that ...
Living In The Age Of Stupid
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffBy Sean Pool London is underwater, New Orleans won't be rebuilt a third time, the arctic is ice free, and agriculture is failing, which leads to global food riots and ultimately the collapse of civilization... This ...
Living In The Age Of Stupid
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffBy Sean Pool London is underwater, New Orleans won't be rebuilt a third time, the arctic is ice free, and agriculture is failing, which leads to global food riots and ultimately the collapse of civilization... This ...
U.S. Media Largely Ignores Latest Warning From Climate Scientists
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Media | Comments OffIn the last two years, our scientific understanding of business-as-usual projections for global warming has changed dramatically (see "M.I.T. doubles its projection of global warming by 2100 to 5.1°C" and "Hadley Center projects 5-7°C warming by ...