mediatechnologysociety: A report for professionals engaged in discussions, research, thinking, policy and philanthropy related to the future of journalism and media.
Ty Ahmed-Taylor, Vice President and Director of Strategic Planning, Comcast Len Apcar, Editor in Chief, New York Times Digital Shayne Bowman, co-author of We Media; Principal, Hypergene Media Solutions John S. Bracken, Program Officer, The John D & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Merrill Brown, Principal, MBB Associates and former editor of MSNBC M.R.F. Buckley, Managing Editor, The Boston Channel.com Chad Capellman, Managing Editor, The Media Center Steve Cistulli, Panasonic Mobile Communications of America Ana Marie Cox, aka “Wonkette” Carin Dessauer, Principal, MC2, former CNN/CNN.com executive Rob Enderle, technology columnist; President, The Enderle Group Dennis Flynn, CEO of The Sonar Group Dan Froomkin, Columnist, WashingtonPost.com Bill Gannon, Editorial Director & Managing Editor, Yahoo! Inc. Clark Gilbert, Harvard Business School Bob Giles, Curator, The Nieman Foundation at Harvard Jehmu Greene, President, Rock the Vote Foundation Lawrence Grossman, Co-Chair, PBS Digital Promise; former president of NBC News Jeff Jarvis, founder of buzzmachine.com; President, Advance.net Henry Jenkins, Director, MIT Comparative Media Studies Program Pamela Johnson, Director,Reynolds Institute at the University of Missouri Jim Kennedy, Vice President and Director of Strategic Planning, The Associated Press Rebecca MacKinnon, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Susan Mernit, Principal, 5ive Andrew Nachison, Director, The Media Center Andreas Neus, IBM Business Consulting Services Craig Newmark, Founder, craigslist.com Gloria Pan, Communications Director, The Media Center. Adam Penenberg, Assistant Professor, NYU Journalism; Wired News Media Columnist Dale Peskin, Co-Director, The Media Center Brian Reich,Director, Mindshare Interactive Campaigns L.L.C. Jay Rosen, Founder, PRESSthink.com; Associate Professor, New York University Henry Rubin, Project Zero Research Analyst and Sociology Professor, Tufts University Richard Sambrook, Director, BBC World Service and Global News Division Jan Schaffer, Executive Director, J-Lab Danny Schechter, Executive Editor, MediaChannel; Creator of WMD: Weapons of Mass Distortion Michael Schrage, Co-Director, MIT MediaLab Lisa Stone, “Surfette”, "Legal Blog Watch" and former editor-in-chief of Women.com Networks Karen Stephenson, President, NetForm Halley Suitt, Author, Senior Editor, blogger and "Online Diva" Matt Thompson, creator of EPIC Katherine von Jan, Trend Director, Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve David Weinberger, author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto; Fellow, The Berman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Chris Willis, co-author of We Media; Principal, Hypergene Media Solutions William C. Weiss, CEO of The Promar Group William L. Winter, President, William L. Winter & Assoc.
The process
The symposium is based on cross-sector discourse. It will be conducted U.N. style, with participants seated in a U-shaped arena for discussion. All participants will have equal standing; everyone will contribute as a witness. Three dialogs will be held, each focused around an inflection point in media, technology and society. Several participants have been asked to provide brief remarks or presentations to open and frame each dialog. Discussion leaders will facilitate each dialog. Participants have been informally assigned to groups representing issues in media, technology and society. Participants in each group have been asked in advance to consider issues and ideas relevant to discussion, and to stimulate discussion around those issues and ideas.
The three dialogs
Mainstream Media (MSM) in the connected society: Will the traditions of professional journalism survive? Should they? What are the implications for society?
Technology, humanity and the global datastream: What’s going on? How will it benefit society?
We Media, the culture, and the common good: How we know, how we learn, how we trust in the emerging ecosystem of participatory, always-on media.
The story
We’ll create a story about the dialogs. Story makers have been assigned to each of three discussions. They’ll capture the proceedings with video and still cameras, recordings and notes. Key ideas will be projected on a screen as they occur. The story makers will share their findings, follow up with participants and decide how to present the story.
Schedule (Updated 2.18.05)
Thursday, March 3 8:30 Coffee and check-in 9 a Welcome, about the symposium, and introductions
9:45 Media inflection: Mainstream Media and the survival of professional journalism
Shaping the dialog: Context, perspective and story Opening remarks: Professional journalism at crossroads Remarks, reaction and facilitation of dialog
Media witnesses / discussants
Noon Lunch at Lippmann house
1 p Media, technology and society: the landscape (report distributed in advance by email) Reaction and discussion
2:15 Break
2:45 Technology inflection: Society and the digital datastream Shaping the dialog: Context, perspective and story EPIC Reaction and discussion Datastreams, devices and global communications Technology witnesses / discussants
4:30 Around the room: Day One learnings 5:15 Adjourn for day
Friday morning, March 4 8:30 Coffee and-check-in
9:30 Society inflection: We Media, culture and the common good Shaping the dialog: Context, perspective and story The audience: trends and behaviors Dialog: How we know, how we learn, how we trust Society witnesses / discussants
Lunch
Dialog: Where to? Where the inflection leads
Taking the story forward Around the room
4:30 Adjourn
This event is on the record. To request a media pass, please contact Gloria Pan at gpan@mediacenter.org by February 25, 2005.
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