Re:frame

From the Re:Frame ad I received at the American Library Association mid-Winter conference: Hard-to-find Movies, Now Available at Your Fingertips Reframe is getting independent films and other media off the shelf and online for rental and purchase.  Check out rarely-seen films from artists like Ken Jacobs and Sally Potter, or collections from the Center for [...]

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Good night Mr. Wickham

Source: Chicagotribune.com, “Woodward A. Wickham, 1942-2009: Former MacArthur Foundation Vice President,” by Trevor Jensen, 1/22/09. Here is Mr. Jensen’s lead about “Woody” Wickham: Woodward A. Wickham managed about $25 million in annual grants for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, expanding support for human rights groups and providing important backing for independent films, [...]

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Tikkun: McChesney & Scott on Media Reform

McChesney, R. (2009, January). Robert W. McChesney and Ben Scott on the Centrality of Media Reform. Tikkun, 24(1), 66-67. Retrieved January 29, 2009, from Academic Search Premier database. Available to the Ithaca College campus community. From the Abstract in Academic Search Premier: The article presents a memorandum addressed to U.S. president Barack Obama concerning the [...]

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MITWorld: Technologies Changing Communities, Communities Innovating Technology

From “About the Lecture”: The best way to help a community help itself, say Dayna Cunningham and Alexa Mills, is to enable its members to find their voices and talk to each other. In several projects in the U.S. and overseas, the two speakers are developing methodologies for enabling communities to express and define themselves, [...]

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Cathy: out of the office

I’ll be out of the office from Jan 21 through Jan 28th for a conference (American Library Association, Midwinter Conference, Denver).  Sorry I’ll not be available during this period.  Please contact one of my colleagues at the Reference Desk while I’m away.

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Media is a Plural: Twitter Journalism

Source: Media is a Plural, “Twitter Journalism,” by Rory O’Connor, 1/19/09. This is the second post by O’Conner on emerging media and journalism (the first was on Facebook Journalism).  He interviews with Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder.   Here is a part of his introduction to the interview: When it comes to breaking news – from heroism [...]

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Free Issue v.1(1): Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds

From: Nico Carpentier Subject: [ecrea] Launch: Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds, 1:1 Date: January 17, 2009 Examine the first issue of this publication for free.  Here is the post from Astrid Ensslin, Principal Editor: This is to announce the publication of the first issue (1:1, 2009) of the peer- reviewed, international Journal of Gaming [...]

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OnlineMediaDialy: RIAA opposes webcast of case

Source: OnlineMediaDaily, “RIAA Objects to webcast in downloading case,” by Wendy Davis, 1/19/09. Davis summarizes the decision by First Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Nancy Gertner. Again, I refer to the Citizen Media Law Project’s post by David Ardia, “Federal Judge in Boston Orders Groundbreaking webcast of hearing,” by1/14/09.  He writes about the webcast: Judge [...]

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paidContent: EC slams Microsoft again

Source: paidContent, “EC Hits Microsoft with another antitrust case, Says its browser harms the web,” by Robert Andrews, 1/17/09. Brief from Andrews who uses a picture of a cat and mouse (his cat, I wonder?) to illustrate that cat and mouse game between the EC and MSFT. Here is the EC MEMO/09/15 (1/17/09) provided by [...]

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ColbertNation.com: Lawrence Lessig

Alert from: Citizen Media Law Project, “Lessig and Colbert Mix it Up,” by Sam Bayard,  1/12/09.  I’m glad Bayard alerted me to this.  He links to Lessig’s blog & indabamusic where submissions to the “Colbert Report Remix Sessions” are posted (under the Community tab search “Colbert” — can’t link to it directly).  Copyright can be [...]

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Research Brief: Internet top for news

Source: Research Brief, “News no longer newspaper’s forte,” 1/16/08. Briefs on: a Pew Research Center for the People & the Press study that shows that the Internet is where most respondents get their national / international news &  eMarketer research on the decline of ad dollars for US Newspapers is also covered.  Andrew Davis from [...]

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HRW: World Report 2009

Source: HRW.org, “World Report 2009″ The 2009 World Report is available as a pdf.   Here is the Press Release and a video News Conference. A quote, also used as a sidebar to the press release, by Executive Director Kenneth Roth: ‘For the first time in nearly a decade, the US has a chance to regain [...]

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BuisnessWeek: Gaming and innovation

Alert: SmartBrief, 1/16/09; Source: Businessweek, “How the World of Warcraft Promotes Innovation: This video game demonstrates in its structure and scoring some fundamental principles for training employees to think creatively,” by Hagel and Seely Brown, 1/14/08. The authors examine how the video game World of Warcraft (WoW) can be used in place of traditional training [...]

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MediaPost: US not ready for digital t.v.; Broadband expansion

Source:  MediaDailyNews, “Nielsen: We’re still unprepared for digital transition,” by Joe Mandese, 1/16/09. Mandese reports on a Nielsen study that finds that America is unprepared for the digital t.v. transition.   A report on the transition can be found here: (pdf) “The February 2009 Digital Television Transition: Overview of the Digital Readiness of U.S. Households and [...]

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paidContent: FCC’s Kevin Martin to resign

Source: paidContent.org, “FCC’s Kevin Martin to Resign,” by Tricia Duryee, 1/15/08. Bye-bye, Kevin.  Duryee reports on how Martin will be joining the Aspen Institute (originally reported in the AP).  Duryee added an updated with Martin’s statement posted to the FCC site.

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Spring 2009: Welcome back!

From: Cathy Michael, Communication and Legal Studies Librarian Re: Welcome Back 2009 / Library News Dear Faculty: Hopefully everyone had a healthy happy break.   Happy New Year! LIBRARY HOURS We’re closing at 5 pm this week & are closed this weekend.  We’ll be closed at 5 pm on the 19th, MLK Day, too. Starting Tuesday [...]

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Book Review: Reading the Media (Hobbs)

Book Review is available fulltext to the IC community: Jensen, A. (2008, November). Reading the Media: Media Literacy in High School English. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 52(3), 261-263. Retrieved January 15, 2009, from Professional Development Collection database. The book is available in IC Library: General Stacks LB1043 .H628 2007

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ALA DC Office: House activity – libraries &archives

Alert From: Bill Walker To: ENY/ACRL Date: 1/14/09 RE: District Dispatch from ALA Washington Office: District Dispatch has posted a new item, ‘House Passes Presidential Records Act Amendments and Presidential Library Donation Reform Act ‘ The House is back in session and is already getting to work. They voted on and passed H.R. 35, Presidential [...]

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Book Review: The American Journalist in the 21st Century

Book Review is available fulltext to the IC community: Hoffman, Lindsay H. (2009). A Review of: “David H. Weaver, Randal A. Beam, Bonnie J. Brownlee, Paul S. Voakes, and G. Cleveland Wilhoit. The American Journalist in the 21st Century: U.S. News People at the Dawn of a New Millennium.”. Mass Communication and Society, 12 (1), [...]

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AEJMC: Newspaper Division PF&R Educator Award

From: Jack Rosenberry Subject: [AEJMC Newspaper Division list] Call for Nominations: Newspaper Division PF&R Educator Award Date: January 15, 2009 8:47:41 AM EST The Newspaper Division is seeking nominees for the 2009 Professional Freedom & Responsibility Professor of the Year (PF&R)  The award honors an individual whose life and work shows a commitment to one [...]

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