Archive for November, 2006
mediaberkman - November 30, 2006 @ 4:48 pm
· Digital Divide, Nancy Hafkin, Berkman Luncheon Series, Developing Countries, video, Berkman Center, Internet
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Nancy Hafkin leads a discussion about women’s empowerment in the face of information and technology developments at the Berkman Center’s Tuesday Luncheon Series.
Nancy Hafkin is a leading scholar on gender and information technology. She speaks about the possibilities for Cinderellas and Cyberellas in the 21st century. Cyberella is fluent in the uses of technology, comfortable using and designing computer technology, and working in virtual spaces. Cinderella works in the basement of the knowledge society with little opportunity to reap its benefits. How will we work to support and develop Cyberellas? Ms. Hafkin has compiled the tales of Cinderella or Cyberella in a new book.
mediaberkman - November 28, 2006 @ 3:58 pm
· audio, Nancy Hafkin, Digital Divide, Berkman Luncheon Series, Berkman Center, Developing Countries, Internet
Nancy Hafkin leads a discussion about women’s empowerment in the face of information and technology developments at the Berkman Center’s Tuesday Luncheon Series.
Download the MP3 (time: 1:20:23).
Nancy Hafkin is a leading scholar on gender and information technology. She speaks about the possibilities for Cinderellas and Cyberellas in the 21st century. Cyberella is fluent in the uses of technology, comfortable using and designing computer technology, and working in virtual spaces. Cinderella works in the basement of the knowledge society with little opportunity to reap its benefits. How will we work to support and develop Cyberellas? Ms. Hafkin has compiled the tales of Cinderella or Cyberella in a new book.
mediaberkman - November 15, 2006 @ 6:24 pm
· Citizen Media, Rebecca MacKinnon, Berkman Luncheon Series, Berkman Center, video, Education, Internet, Journalism
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Berkman Fellow Rebecca MacKinnon discusses Journalism Education and the Internet: Help plan a cutting-edge “New Media Workshop” for J-school students in Hong Kong. MacKinnon asks, “What should we be teaching tomorrow’s journalists in order to help move journalism in a socially constructive direction? Not just in the United States, but globally?”
In an unconference style untalk, Rebecca leads a dynamic discussion including the context, intent and perspectives of student journalists.
mediaberkman - November 14, 2006 @ 5:15 pm
· Rebecca MacKinnon, Berkman Luncheon Series, audio, Citizen Media, Berkman Center, Education, Innovation, Internet, Journalism
Berkman Fellow Rebecca MacKinnon discusses Journalism Education and the Internet: Help plan a cutting-edge “New Media Workshop” for J-school students in Hong Kong. MacKinnon asks, “What should we be teaching tomorrow’s journalists in order to help move journalism in a socially constructive direction? Not just in the United States, but globally?”
In an unconference style untalk, Rebecca leads a dynamic discussion including the context, intent and perspectives of student journalists.
Download the MP3 (time: 1:09:18).
mediaberkman - November 14, 2006 @ 3:59 pm
· Citizen Media, Jay Rosen, Berkman Center, video, Education, Internet, Journalism
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Jay Rosen joins us at The Berkman Center to talk about Open Source journalism and his new project, www.newassignment.net.
Open Source has worked in software, but can it work in journalism? Can it break news? Can it tell big important stories? Can the advantages of the bazaar come to the cathedral of investigative reporting? NewAssignment.Net will try to find out.
Produced by Colin Rhinesmith.
mediaberkman - November 14, 2006 @ 12:33 pm
· audio, Jay Rosen, Open Source, Citizen Media, Berkman Center, Innovation, Internet, Journalism
Jay Rosen joins us at The Berkman Center to talk about Open Source journalism and his new project, www.newassignment.net.
Open Source has worked in software, but can it work in journalism? Can it break news? Can it tell big important stories? Can the advantages of the bazaar come to the cathedral of investigative reporting? NewAssignment.Net will try to find out.
Download the MP3 (time: 1:19:42).
Produced by Colin Rhinesmith.
