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style="font-family:ArialMT">by Jason Pramas, Oct-12-11 <a
href="http://www.openmediaboston.org/taxonomy/term/235"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#95001F;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none"><b>OMB Editorial<br>
<br>
</b></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:15.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:
Verdana">So, ok, the official title of the event is the <a
href="http://civic.mit.edu/event/town-hall-meeting-on-media-and-democracy"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#95001F;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>Town
Hall
Meeting on Media and Democracy</b></span></a>. But we
thought that sounded
too low-key; so we decided to zip up our promotions a bit this
week.</span><span style="font-family:LucidaGrande">
</span><span
style="font-family:Verdana">Anyhow,
Open Media Boston and the other event co-sponsors - <a
href="http://www.freepress.net/"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#95001F;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>Free Press</b></span></a>,
<a href="http://www.lesley.edu/"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#95001F;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>Lesley
University</b></span></a>, <a
href="http://www.massglobalaction.org/"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
color:#95001F;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>Mass.
Global Action</b></span></a>,
<a href="http://civic.mit.edu/"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#95001F;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>MIT Center for
Civic Media</b></span></a>,
and <a href="http://cms.mit.edu/"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#95001F;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>MIT Comparative
Media Studies</b></span></a>
- are pleased to invite everyone who wonders about what the rise
of social
media means for the future of journalism to come to the famed
lecture hall <a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=10"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#95001F;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>MIT Room 10-250</b></span></a>
(Building 10, 2nd floor, Room 250) at 7 p.m. on Friday, October
21st and join
us for a fun, informative discussion. The evening will be hosted
by the <a href="file://localhost/bostonmediareform"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
color:#95001F;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>Boston
Media Reform
Network</b></span></a> with support from <a
href="http://www.participantmedia.com/"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
color:#95001F;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>Participant
Media</b></span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:15.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:
Verdana">The documentary <a
href="http://www.takepart.com/pageone"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#95001F;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>Page
One:
Inside the New York Times</b></span></a>, which chronicles
the
transformation of the media industry in the face of changing
economic and
technological realities, will frame the conversation. We will
explore how the
shifting media landscape impacts our democracy, and what that
means for the
news and information needs of local communities, especially in
Boston. Clips
from the film will be shown, several media experts will be asked
to share their
thoughts and experience on this changing landscape, and audience
participation
will be strongly encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:15.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:
Verdana">And how about those media experts? We'll have <a
href="http://www.brianstelter.com/"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#95001F;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>Brian Stelter</b></span></a>
of
the New York Times (who is featured in Page One), <a
href="http://cindyerodriguez.com/"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#95001F;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>Cindy Rodríguez</b></span></a>
from Emerson College, <a href="http://schock.cc/"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
color:#95001F;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>Sasha
Constanza-Chock</b></span></a> from the MIT Center for
Civic Media and MIT
Comparative Media Studies, and <a
href="http://www.freepress.net/node/122"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#95001F;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>Craig
Aaron</b></span></a> from Free Press. <a
href="http://about.me/jpramas"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#95001F;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>I
will be</b></span></a> moderating. Plus we might have some
extra special guests
on hand. Incidentally, the quote in the title of this editorial
refers to
something that <a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/bio-carr.html"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#95001F;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>David
Carr</b></span></a> of the New York Times media desk says
about his colleague
Brian Stelter in Page One. It's a funny scene that reflects the
passing of the
torch from older reporters like Carr to younger social media
savvy ones like
Stelter, and one of the big reasons we thought it would be a
blast to build
this event around the film.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:15.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:
Verdana">This panel is also the opening event of the <a
href="http://www.digitalmediaconference.org/"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
color:#95001F;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>Social
Movements/Digital
Revolutions conference</b></span></a> - which we'd love
you
all to attend. We've <a
href="http://www.openmediaboston.org/node/1996"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#95001F;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>already
written
about that</b></span></a> in detail in these pages, but
we'll be
putting out a special editorial on it next week - with a list of
speakers and
workshops.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:15.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:
Verdana">Given the role that social media is playing in the rise
of the #Occupy
movement nationally, and in the global wave of uprisings from
which it sprung,
we think this conversation could hardly be more timely. So we
strongly
encourage <a href="http://www.occupyboston.com/"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
color:#95001F;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>#OccupyBoston</b></span></a>
folks to come on over to the both the opening panel on Friday,
October 21st and
the main conference on Saturday, October 22nd.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:15.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:
Verdana">That's it for now. If anyone has any questions about
either event,
just email us at OMB ... info [at] openmediaboston [dot] org.
And if you're
coming on the 21st, we'd appreciate it if <a
href="http://act2.freepress.net/survey/townhall_media_Boston"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#95001F;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><b>you
would
RSVP</b></span></a> so we'll have an idea of how many
folks are
definitely planning to attend. Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:15.0pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
style="font-family:
Verdana"><i>Jason Pramas is Editor/Publisher of Open Media
Boston</i></span><span style="font-family:Verdana"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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