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Press Release: Citizen Access to Democracy Hurting in Rural America
As an increasing number of participatory democratic processes assume access to modern, high-speed telecommunications services, are citizens in rural/remote areas politically disenfranchised by lack of adequate, affordable and equal communications infrastructure? With the support of a Collaborative Grant from the SSRC, Dr. Richard Wolff (Montana State University) and Montana Common Cause team up to answer this question of civic engagement.
Call for Papers: Congress on Social and Economic Impact of ICTs
ACORN / REDECOM invite proposals on current research relevant to the communication and information sector, with accepted papers to be presented at the 2009 Congress in Mexico City. Travel funds are available on a competitive basis.
Humanitarianism, Activism, Media, Religion: A Roundtable
Distinctions between religious and secular activist media often seem self-evident. This panel asks what they might share. How do religious and secular forms of activism overlap? How do contemporary humanitarian and activist movements use complex networks of mediation? How do visions of suffering function when mediated and deployed globally? How do the formal properties of media signs and symbols constitute humanitarian and activist movements?
SSRC Announces Seven New Collaborative Grant Winners -- Small Grants and Research Bounties
Oct. 27, 2008 -- The Social Science Research Council announces seven new recipients of Collaborative Grants in Media and Communications. The winners include five $7,500 Small Grants and two Research Bounties.
Grantee Feature: Consumer's Rights and Internet Access in Brazil
With the boom in Internet use, the Brazilian government is re-examining legal and policy frameworks surrounding telecom services, including the debate around network neutrality in the US. With SSRC support, the Instituto Brasileiro de Defesa do Consumidor (IDEC) has tested the broadband Internet access of the three main service providers in São Paulo.
Grantee Feature: A New Model for Measuring Radio Audiences
Graciela Orozco (San Francisco State University) believes in the power of community radio to reach a wide audience. For stations serving rural or marginalized populations, how can we better measure their reach and impact?
Grantee Feature: Common Frequency Public FM
In 2007, a rare window opened for non-profit groups to apply for full-power FM radio licenses. Common Frequency and researcher Andy Jones (UC Davis) applied for an SSRC Grant to provide information about available frequencies to a wide range of non-profits and student groups. Working with Radio for People, their efforts supported some 200 frequency applications.
Grantee Feature: 'Migrant Voices' for Social Change
Sasha Costanza-Chock (USC) and Amanda Garcés (IDEPSCA) share lessons from ‘Migrant Voices', a participatory research project with IDEPSCA and the Garment Worker Center to develop new strategies for broad-based communication among low-wage immigrants in Los Angeles. Their current work, also funded by the SSRC, explores a new platform for mobile-based storytelling.
APCNews Features SSRC Grantee Report
The Association for Progressive Communications highlights the recent work of SSRC Small Grant recipient Abi Jagun, who investigated the unique case of Mauritius as part of APC's large-scale research project on SAT-3/WASC implementation in Africa.
Research Bounty Claimed: Who Gets Cable?
'Who Gets Cable? Why We Don't Know and Why That Matters', has received an SSRC Research Bounty of $5,000 to fund collaboration between Media Access Project and researchers Scott Sanders (Chicago Media Action) and Greg Rose.
Collaborative Grants: Honorable Mentions
The SSRC Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere Grants program introduces 'Honorable Mentions'. Each Collaborative Grants round sees a number of excellent proposals that can't be funded due to our limited resources. We want to draw your attention to these projects, in the hope that they will find success and support!
Participate in Discussion of FCC Policy on Net Neutrality
The Deliberative E-Rulemaking Project (DeER) project is inviting members of the public to participate in an online forum on FCC network neutrality regulation, the results of which will be submitted as comments to the FCC.
Five New Positions Available at UMass, Amherst
The Department of Communication at UMass Amherst invites applications for five tenure-track appointments at the Assistant Professor or Associate Professor level. Positions are available in International/Global and/or Intercultural Communication, Quantitative and Qualitative Communication Research Methodologies, Journalism, and Journalism Studies. Application review begins October 1, 2008.
Barry Wellman and Arvind Singhal Win New SSRC/ICA Prizes
July 6, 2008 - The Social Science Research Council is pleased to announce the winners of two new prizes in media and communications research, sponsored in partnership with the International Communications Association:
Whose Media? Our Media! SPIN Toolkit Available for Download
Whose Media? Our Media! -- A toolkit to help media activists develop and successfully execute their own communications campaigns from the ground up.
SSRC Announces Seven New Media & Communications Collaborative Grants
June 16th -- The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is pleased to announce seven new recipients of $30,000 Large Grants for academic-advocacy collaboration in media and communications. The funded projects address a range of exciting research needs, from advocacy strategies for Latinos to engage with media institutions, to action research developing a code of practices for Thai community radio, to initiatives that build collaborations between advocates and activists working to democratize the digital communications platform, etc.
Oxford Internet Institute Summer Interns Wanted
OII is looking for Summer Interns to work on the Peach project (ethical, legal and social issues in virtual environments) and the Oxford eSocial Science (OeSS) project (social shaping of e-Research technologies and collaborative distributed science).
Open Society Fellowship
The Open Society Fellowship enables outstanding individuals from around the world — journalists, activists, academics, practitioners — to work on projects that inspire meaningful public debate, shape policy, and inform the thinking and activities of the Open Society Institute and the Soros Foundations Network.
Hopes for Wireless Cities Fade -- Meinrath and Others Talk with the NYTimes
SSRC grant recipient Sascha Meinrath (Director of the Wireless Future Program at the New America Foundation) is featured in an article by the NYTimes on struggling municiple wi-fi networks in major cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago, Houston, Miami, and San Franscisco. How can cities adopt viable plans that live up to the hype?
Grantee Profile: NYTimes and CityPaper feature Media Mobilizing Project
Todd Wolfson and Media Mobilizing Project, recipients of a $30,000 SSRC Large Grant in October 2007, were recently featured in the New York Times Technology section and on the front cover of the Philadelphia CityPaper for their ongoing work with community journalists in Philadelphia, where residents are voicing issues of violence, gentrification, and the digital divide.