CONTENTS
- About This Issue
The Editors
- Emerging Media Reshape Global Society
Dale Peskin, Co-Director, and Andrew Nachison, Director, The Media Center at the American Press Institute
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New technologies create new media, changing the distribution, consumption, and use of information and revolutionizing public consumption of information.
- Newspapers Recreate Their Medium
Brian L. Steffens, Executive Director of the National Newspaper Association
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Community newspapers are creating multimedia platforms for the delivery of their products, attempting to attract younger readers and an Internet audience.
- How Community Newspapers Adapt to New Technology
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New technology allows newspapers to make advantageous content, production, and delivery changes.
- Broadcasters Getting Online, Staying On Air
Michael Murrie, Professor of Telecommunications, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California.
- The broadcasting industry has transformed the delivery and production of programming to survive in a changing marketplace.
- Public Libraries in the Internet Age
Maurice J. (Mitch) Freedman, Former President, American Library Association; Director, Westchester, New York, Library System (retired)
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Using the Internet, library professionals reach beyond the library walls to provide information services to their patrons.
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In "Family," Michael McIntee remembers his father's life and stories in a discovery of the importance of family history. It is from the videoblog site Minnesota Stories [http://mnstories.com], where viewers are invited to share their lives with an online audience, creating "an evolving showcase for local citizen media."
Used by permission.
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Connecting Cultures on the Internet
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The U.S. Library of Congress is launching an ambitious international effort to put precious items of artistic, historical, and literary significance on the Internet.
- Readers Make a Newspaper Their Own
An Interview with Lex Alexander, Citizen Journalism Coordinator, Greensboro, North Carolina, News & Record
- An urban newspaper creates the Town Square concept online, offering readers more interactivity, community journalism, and involvement.
- The $100 Laptop
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One Laptop Per Child is developing a machine to bring advanced technologies to more youngsters in poorer countries than ever before.
- Bloggers Breaking Ground in Communication
Dan Gillmor, Founder and Director, Center for Citizen Media; Author, We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People
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Blogging is a conversational and collaborative medium that furthers the democratization of media.
- Online Albums
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Photobloggers share their lives and ideas in photos.
- Making Connections a World Away
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Average people are able to reach far beyond their own communities to connect with new people, sharing interests and experiences. Three online projects are profiled.
- Wikipedia makes great progress in providing non-English material on the Internet.
Native Youth Magazine.com allows isolated tribal populations in the United States and Canada to share culture and language and preserve them for the next generation.
Youth Radio allows media-savvy youngsters the experience of producing programming.
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Internet2—Creating Tomorrow's Internet
Heather Boyles, Director of International Relations, Internet2
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More than 200 universities are working with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced applications and technologies to accelerate the creation of tomorrow's Internet.
- Fighting Online Crime
Daniel Larkin, Unit Chief, Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), Federal Bureau of Investigation
- IC3 investigates the growing number of complaints about fraudulent, deceptive, and criminal activity online.
- What Every e-Consumer Should Know
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A prominent U.S. consumer advocacy group offers guidelines for avoiding fraud and deception online.
- The Next New Thing Is Here
Jeff Gralnick, Special Consultant on the Internet and new media technologies to NBC News; Adjunct Professor of New Media at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
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The rapidly expanding capabilities of wireless devices will make them the newest platform for delivering video in whatever form—games, news, and entertainment.
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