Future of News / Future Civic Media BarCamps
I'm going to propose the following format for each entry:
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Abstract
Organizer(s)
The title of the session should click through to a more in-depth description and dialog of what will be included in the session, links to preparatory material, etc. So, for instance, if I were to do a session on my new proposal for a crowd-sourced TV Guide, it might look like
YouTV: The role of participatory television scheduling.
TV guide has shut down its operations in several major cities in the United States, leading to a dramatic increase in clicking during the first five minutes of every prime time hour. How does this effect the screenwriter's guild (lengthened character exposition, increased reliance on flashbacks) and more importantly, advertising revenues? How can citizens band together to provide the episode synopses and critical timing information that help the average American schedule four hours of their every day?
B. Z. Clown, Sue P. Sails
PLEASE ADD YOUR SESSIONS BELOW!
We are Here: Mapping and Community
A discussion on mapping and community, in order to orient our efforts, survey best practices and locate mapping historically and socially. The current trajectory is to begin with a more cultural and social perspectives on mapping, segue into design in a broad sense, and end up at current technical implementations and issues. Josh, David and Jeff might provide some case studies to help ground this or we might focus on emergent case studies/discussion from the group.
Matthew Hockenberry, Sara Wylie, Josh Levinger, David Zwarg, and Jeff Warren
Models for community engagement I'm preparing to launch Oakland Local, a community news and information hub (has a JLab seed grant) that will marry grassroots community information/news with beat reporting and investigative journalism and am eager to discuss models and best practices. This session will focus on case studies from participants, what has worked, level of effort, combining civic journalism and professional reporting and storytelling--but with a focus on engaging and representing community.
Susan Mernit, Rich Gordon,BEVERLY BLAKE, Paul Grabowicz, Amanda Hickman, Chris O'Brien, Geoff Dougherty, Harry Dugmore are among the people who have expressed interest in this session-let's consider a call or email to plan how we might present to each other (and all others wecomed). What are your 3 burning questions? (please add them)
Mobile track/session ideas
Susan Mernit suggested "Mobile & news: Interfaces, experiences, platforms
Mobile seems critical to me as a key development piece for all future of new products and development; what are the best practices, interesting and successful experiments, platforms, products, tools we can teach one another?"
Lots of response, including much from people with more expertise than me(Susan) on this topic--interest from Katrin Verclas , Rich Gordon, Jacob Colker, Beverly Blake, Ory Oholloh, Chris O'Brien, Joyce Barnathan, Roberta King, all like this session idea. Chris Csikszentmihalyi offered to possibly expand track.
Entreprenerds and Entreprenews -- Growing new ideas in news and technology from concept to viable business I (Rick Borovoy) am a Visiting Scientist at the Center for Future Civic Media with experience doing a VC-funded start-up based on innovative wearable computer technology that came out of the Media Lab. I've thought a lot about the entrepreneurial process, particularly as it applies to seeking out new intersections between a technology, a user community, a development team and a funding source. I'd love to co-lead a session on these issues. Pam Fine expressed interest in participating.
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