| Report: On-Line Engagement for News Sites Another J-Lab report that surveys midwestern online news sites about viewer engagement strategies. |
| Rules of the Road: Ethics and Local On-Line Journalism Report that collates experiences from several online local journalism sites around the country. |
| ARC Report: Milennials Activism and Race Millennials, Activism and Race continues ARC’s ongoing work on the perspectives and experiences of the most racially and ethnically diverse generation in our nation’s history. |
| Censored 2013 In this volume are 500 pages of real news you can use plus analysis that eradicates civil paralysis and antidotes to truth emergencies to strengthen media literacy. Buy your copy today! |
| Criminal Charges: Fighting For Your Right to Call Home Download this toolkit supporting the national campaign challenging prison phone kickbacks and the U.S. Prison Telephone Industry. From our friends at Thousand Kites. |
| Digital Inclusion and Data Profiling A timely paper from former MA board member Seeta Pena Ganghadjaran focuses on specific examples of commercial data profiling against the history of low–tech data profiling of chronically underserved communities. |
| Connected: Poverty Stretches the Digital Divide A series of studies by John Dunbar and Jacob Fenton at the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University on the links between poverty, rural life and lack of broadband access. |
| University of Minnesota Study on Online Piracy by Danaher, Brett and Waldfogel, Joel, Reel Piracy: The Effect of Online Film Piracy on International Box Office Sales Univ of Minnesota study on the impact of online piracy on international box office sales. News flash: there isn't much of one. |
| Trends in Latino Mobile Phone Usage This report by the National Hispanic Media Coalition is a comprehensive compilation of up-to-date data on how the Latino community is using mobile phones. |
| American Hate Radio Report National Hispanic Media Coalition The National Hispanic Media Coalition releases thus report on American Hate Rdio: How a Powerful Outlet for Democratic Discourse Has Deteriorated Into Hate Racism and Extremism. |
| Designing for Impact: The Rise of High-Impact Social Justice Documentaries This report, from the Center for Social Media at American University, provides 6 in-depth case studies of the documentary film process and how to evaluate impact. |
| Pew Study: Word of Mouth Frequent Source of News While local TV news remains the most popular source for local information in America, adults rely on it primarily for just three subjects -- weather, breaking news and to a lesser extent traffic. These are some of the findings of a new study produced by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Pew Internet & American Life Project in partnership with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. |
| E-Waste: What to do with that old TV or Computer Recycling resources in the East Bay that are responsible and community-oriented. For analog TV's, old computers ... and more. |
| Copyright and Fair Use This on-line guide from the Stanford University Library and Nolo Books covers most of the important information on copyrights, fair use and permissions. http://fairuse.stanford.edu/index.html |
| The Local Network Cookbook: A Recipe for Launching a Local Broadband Wireless Network by Wally Bowen, http://main.nc.us/lan-recipe/ The Local Network Cookbook, A recipe for Launching a Local Broadband Wireless Network is aimed at helping nonprofit organizations - especially those already using digital technologies - move quickly to plan and submit a broadband stimulus funding proposal for one the three ARRA (Obama stimulus) application windows. |
| Fair Use Practices for Online Video The Center for Social Media at American University and and the AU College of Law have teamed up with Stanford Law School to produce this video explaining how online video creators can make remixes and mashups while staying within copyright regulations. |
| National Broadband Policy for the Twenty-First Century: Thoughts from the Grassroots This Media Alliance report is a compilation of several events held in the state of California in 2008 where grassroots groups and members of the community gathered to discuss the the Internet. |
| Commercial Broadcaster Public Interest Obligations What public interest obligations, you say? But they do exist and recently the FCC has gone as far as to suggest that they may be a bit more stringently enforced. |
| Be The Media Robert McChesney: "If BE THE MEDIA didn't exist, like Voltaire's God, it would have to be invented". |
| New Toolkit Makes Digital Inclusion Advocacy Easier The movement for affordable broadband access is growing. Media Alliance's "Digital Inclusion Advocacy Toolkit: Bridging the Digital Divide by Winning Community Benefits in Municipal Broadband Projects" provides useful information for community members who want to advance digital inclusion in their neighborhoods. A resource directory and a comprehensive glossary of terms makes this a must-read for everyone. |