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FACT Challenge Submissions Open

[Source: NetSquared.org, August 23, 2010]
The French American Charitable Trust (FACT) is pleased to announce the second annual FACT Social Justice Awards.  FACT is committed to addressing the fundamental inequalities and ...

Knight Foundation Launches Technology for Engagement

[Source: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, by Paula Ellis, Damian Thorman, August 24, 2010]
Five projects that use technology to help residents take action to strengthen their communities will receive $2.23 million in funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The support ...

Now Playing: Night of the Living Tech

[Source: The New York Times, by Steve Lohr, August 21, 2010]
Life in the media and communications terrarium, it seems, is getting increasingly perilous. The predictions of demise are piling up. Phone calls, e-mail, blogs and Facebook, according to digerati ...

ZeroDivide Receives Stimulus Funding to Foster New Generation of Technology Adopters in Underserved Youth and Tribal Communities

[Source: ZeroDivide, August 18, 2010]
ZeroDivide was today awarded $2,070,399 in two grants from the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Vice-President Joe Biden announced the ...

NPR Amps Up

[Source: Columbia Journalism Review, by Jill Drew, April 1, 2010]
Can Vivian Schiller build a journalism juggernaut?

Changing the World through Gaming – ICED as a Case Study

[Source: by Mallika Dutt, President & CEO, Breakthrough, July 15, 2010]
Video games will change the world.

Highlights from 2010 Media Grantmaking — The State and Future of the Field

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The 2010 Funder Conversation: Media Grantmaking — The State (and Future) of the FieldPresented by: Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media and the Media Democracy FundHosted by: The Open Society ...

New Media Caucus Panels and Events at the CAA Conference, Chicago, 2010

[Source: NMC Media-N, June 17, 2010]
From PhD’s to the Poles to Live Cinema – at this year’s CAA conference the New Media Caucus excelled itself once again in representing both the diversity and depth of new media research and ...

ZeroDivide Issues Report on its Hip Hop Initiative

The report documents the evolution of ZeroDivide's Hip Hop and Social Justice Initiative. ZeroDivide elected to merge the powerful, popular phenomenon of Hip Hop and the connective thread of ...

Digital Accessibility: The Coalition for Accessible Technology’s Work

[Source: Media and Democracy Coalition Newsletter, by Hannah Miller (MadCo), June 3, 2010]
American Foundation for the Blind talks about the efforts of over 300 organizations to ensure accessibility as digital media advances.