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Media Making Change: New Technology, New Voices
Courtesy of Patrick Butler |
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Date: Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Time: 9:00 a.m. EST (1400 GMT)
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Blogging, online video, and rapid-fire text messaging are new media technologies that have become widely used and adapted in the last few years. Savvy users have applied these technologies in unexpected ways to achieve political goals. Governments are struggling to respond, some with repression, some with reforms. Join Patrick Butler for a discussion of how technology is allowing new voices to create and join a global discussion.
Guest Biography: Patrick Butler is vice president for programs at the International Center for Journalists, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that "promotes quality journalism worldwide in the belief that independent, vigorous media are crucial in improving the human condition," according to its mission statement.
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