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The Center for Social Media
We investigate, showcase and set standards for socially engaged media-making. We organize conferences and convenings, publish research, create codes of best practices, and incubate media strategies.
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Crowdsourced Inauguration Reporting—Be the News You Want to Read
Want to tell people what you’re up to inauguration week? Want to get on-the-ground reports from the scene? American University’s School of Communication, NPR and CBS have teamed up to make it all possible, through InaugurationReport.com. Contribute using Twitter (use tag #inaug09), YouTube, Flickr, iphone and Google Phones, and even text messaging (all tagged inaug09). You could find out where the warming stands are, and also how well crowdsourced news reporting works! … more
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Fun watch: Lessig on Colbert
Check out Lawrence Lessig’s recent appearance on the Colbert Report (below): he promotes his new book, Remix and discusses the problems with current copyright … more
What’s wrong with public broadcasting, and glimmers of how to fix it
Public broadcasting leaders have been reading and sharing the paper that Center Director Pat Aufderheide and I wrote about opportunities and challenges for … more
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Making Your Media Matter 2009
Where: American University in the Katzen Center
How can media makers connect their ethical and aesthetic values with their financial needs?
The Center for Social Media invites established and aspiring filmmakers, non-profit communications leaders, funders, and students to our 5th annual Making Your Media Matter conference. This is a perfect opportunity to learn and share cutting-edge practices for creating media that matters.
For more information about the conference, and to learn more about registration, click here.
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances—especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are predominant. It is a general right that applies even in situations where the law provides no specific authorization for the use in question—as it does for certain narrowly defined classroom activities.
This guide identifies five principles that represent the media literacy education community’s current consensus about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials, wherever and however it occurs: in K–12 education, in higher education, in nonprofit organizations that offer programs for children and youth, and in adult education.