Watch live streaming video from knightfoundation at livestream.com Activists, theorists, media makers and researchers are all struggling to understand the relationship between the recent global cycle of protests and the new media ecology. This panel takes a look at how civic action moves between online and offline spaces, with attention […]
Daily Archives: June 19, 2012
[This liveblog was written by J. Nathan Mathias and edited by Amy Johnson and Gabi Schaffzin] Watch live streaming video from knightfoundation at livestream.com Yesterday we saw the incredible innovations of six of this year’s Knight Challenge winners. As if that weren’t enough, we then had the rapid-fire presentations of […]
Watch live streaming video from knightfoundation at livestream.com Michael Maness leads the Knight Journalism & Innovation Program. In the closing presentation of the conference, he takes the stage to present “moments of profundity”: the key takeaways and open questions generated over the past two days. Is the fury of collecting […]
Michael Kupperman, author of Mark Twain’s Autobiography 1910-2010, is a writer of what Ethan likes to call “civic fiction.” For more portrayls of civic fiction, Ethan is a fan of Benjamen Walker, who hosts Too Much Information on WFMU. It’s one of the more unusual shows you will ever listen […]
Watch live streaming video from knightfoundation at livestream.com Yesterday, in the Turning Data into Narrative session, panelists discussed how data can generate or support narratives. Many of the data narratives discussed drew explicitly or implicitly on government-derived datasets, with Dan O’Neil of Smart Chicago suggesting journalists should spend less time […]