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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!
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.
NK Grantee Post-Workshop Info!
The Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere co-hosted a two-day gathering (23-24 February 2008) of grantees, program partners, scholars and advocates to facilitate discussion on strategies to improve and increase research-advocacy collaborations on media and communications issues. Materials from the workshop can be found here.
Broadband Access Data Mischief
Highlighting the Benton Foundation's response to the just-released NTIA study declaring success for President Bush's universal broadband initiative. The study's reliance on FCC data that the FCC admits cannot provide an accurate picture of broadband adoption makes it worth flagging in the context our proposals to modernize and reform the FCC's data collection practices.
Call for Papers: Communication, Culture & Critique
The International Communication Association seeks manuscripts for second and third 2008 issues of "Communication, Culture & Critique," the ICA's first new journal in 25 years. Submissions should be made online.
New SSRC/IDRC Book: ICT Infrastructure in Emerging Asia: Policy and Regulatory Roadblocks
A new SSRC/IDRC-sponsored volume brings together scholars, practitioners, former regulators and policy makers to address the problem of expanding information and communication technology (ICT) connectivity in emerging Asia.
Sacramento Bee Covers Local TV News Monitoring Project
Supported by a Collaborative Grant to Common Cause, Sacramento Media Group, and Kimberly Nadler (CSU-Sacramento)
Call for Papers: NCMR 2008 pre-Conference
The SSRC, the Free Press, and the IIP at Penn State University invite graduate students and faculty to submit papers for the National Conference on Media Reform Academic pre-Conference to be held in Minneapolis, MN on June 5, 2008. Papers should focus on issues of media ownership, sustaining independent media, digital technology challenges, and access to dominant media. Deadline for abstracts is January 25, 2008.
Fourth Round Collaborative Grants Announced
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is pleased to announce the four newest recipients of $7,500 grants for academic-advocacy collaboration in the media and communications field.
"Media Minutes" Radio Program focuses on SSRC-funded research on Children's Media
The "Media Minutes" syndicated radio program this week includes an interview with Christy Glaubke of Children Now talking the the report “Big Media, Little Kids 2.” This report summarizes a research study that found that media consolidation has a detrimental effect on the provision of educational television. Funded by a grant from the Necessary Knowledge Program.