Meta-Activism Project
http://www.meta-activism.org/ The Meta-Activism Project (MAP) is a non-traditional think tank that uses digital networks to better understand their effects on social power. It is staffed by volunteers. Its website provides free access to its book and other case studies that cover ways in which citizens around the world are using digital technologies to push for […]
European Film Gateway
http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/ Offers free access to about 400,000 digital videos, photos, film posters and text materials from 16 leading archives; these include: Deutsches Filminstitut – DIF e.V. (Frankfurt) and La Cinémathèque française (Paris). Several themed collections are available. These include: Cinecittà Luce: La Settimana Incom Newsreel Collection 1946-1965.
My Subject pages
Subject Rooms are changing their name to My Subject pages. They go live officially on August 15th with the new website, but yours are available now if you would like to have a look. Go to the new website (at the moment the address is http://www2.le.ac.uk/library ) choose My Subject (the tab the furthest right […]
Reporters Without Frontiers – Arab Revolt
http://en.rsf.org/the-arab-revolt.html Reporters without Frontiers has created a special section on their website to cover the recent Arab uprisings. It includes a focus on press censorship, eye witness accounts from local journalists and discussion and news stories about the use of new media. All also available are chronologies of events in Bahrain, Syria, Yemen and Libya.
Citizen Cyberspace
The rise of citizen cyberscience and its impact on professional research http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?sessionId=11&contribId=27&confId=103325 A talk on the rapid growth in the last decade of direct public participation in science via the Web and the impact of this participation on science research.
Reith Lectures Archive
Audio files and transcripts of over 240 lectures from 1948 onwards. These lectures are funded by the BBC and aim to advance public understanding of contemporary issues. In the most recent one Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, explores what freedom means. Other classic texts include Robert Oppenheimer on Science and the Common Understanding, […]
Map Kibera
Another interesting example of citizens and aid agencies using social media for community empowerment/development. Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, is a city suburb. Since 2009 they have been creating a free open map of facilities and providing news services for local citizens and community activists. http://mapkibera.org/ The blog http://www.mapkibera.org/blog/ provides descriptions of the implementation of the […]
New Media Index
A weekly report that captures the leading commentary of news-focused blogs and social media sites and compares their subjects to that of the mainstream press. http://www.journalism.org/commentary_backgrounder/about_new_media_index
Journalists on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/journalists Launched on April 5th 2011 with the aim to “serve as an ongoing resource for the growing number of reporters using Face book to find sources, interact with readers, and advance stories.”
The Guardian Activate conference on digital media
New York, 2011. Some useful videos from this key event: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/activate-conference
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