Berkman Media Re: Public Site

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society today announced "a major research release": Media Re:public: News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age. This series of papers explores the potential and the challenges of the emerging networked digital media environment -- an environment that impacts what we do at the desk, in classes, and in our work with users. It's worth a look!

"The Media Re:public series was put together over the course of a year of examining the news media in the U.S., engaging with journalists, bloggers, citizen journalists, public broadcasters, publishers, advertising networks, researchers, technologists, and many others. It builds on previous discussions, such as the 2005 Blogging, Journalism & Credibility conference, and highlights the need for a new public conversation about reinventing journalism in the public interest."

From the project main page, the conversation is being continued via the project blog.

Interesting Reading

According to an April 17, 2008 Wired Campus story (in the Chronicle of Higher Education), "Harvard Survey Shows Undergraduates -- but Not Graduate Students -- Like Video Lectures"

The actual technology report is linked from the story. Comments on the Chronicle site are also worth a look for some of the issues surrounding these technologies.

The Harvard report, in turn, links back to a Berkman initiative on Digital Natives.

Social Tagging on the Radio

David Weinberger, fellow at the Berkman Center and author of the new book Everything is Miscellaneous, was the featured guest tonight on WGBH radio's "Open Source." With host Christopher Lydon and other guests including librarian Karen Schneider, Weinberger talked about the new world of social tagging. You can listen to the program at the Open Source website.

And beyond social tagging, there's social chatting. Another local public radio show, WBUR's "On Point," examines "The World According to Twitter."