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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!
A community-based, media-monitoring study of how local mainstream news covers issues affecting low-income communities in Philadelphia.
Primary Investigators: Phil Wider, University of Pennsylvania and Media Mobilizing Project; Danilo Yanich, University of Delaware
Partnering Organization: Media Mobilizing Project, Philadelphia, PA.
Analyzing broadcaster compliance with educational programming requirements.
Primary Investigator: Christy Glaubke, Children Now; Katie Heintz, University of Southern Maine
Partnering Organizations: Children Now
Evaluating a major Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) initiative designed to empower low-income women in the urban periphery of Seelampur ( New Delhi, India).
Primary Investigator: Sreela Sarkar, University of Massachusetts;
Organizational Partner: Datamation Foundation
A whitepaper analyzing public participation in three next generation fiber-optic Internet projects.
Primary Investigator: Jennifer Gilomen, Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)
Partnering Organizations: Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC); Center for Social Media, American University
Producing and disseminating a research and advocacy report on the global patterns of Creative Commons license use; developing a metrics for showing penetration and impact of open licensing, per jurisdiction and globally.
Primary Investigator: Professor Giorgos Cheliotis, National University of Singapore
Organizational Partner: Creative Commons