Post-Election Vision for The Echo Chamber
Here is a message I just sent out to my volunteers:Greetings all,I hope you're all taking some time to grieve this loss.It has been such a heartbreaking week to see the exploitation of so-called moral...
View ArticleHarnessing the Power of Emotions
I had a volunteer transcriber write in the following comment about my last e-mail message, "Kent, I hate to tell you, but if you are placing your confidence in facts clearly communicated in even the...
View ArticleWhat Does MetaThought Mean?
Names are important because they carry meaning. I named my production company "MetaThought Productions" after a textbook called "Tools of Critical Thinking: Metathoughts for Psychology" by Pepperdine...
View ArticleDocs = Mirrors of Reality
indieWIRE's Eugene Hernandez subjectively lists the top 15 docs coming out of the International Documentary Filmfestival in Amsterdam.Hernandez also excerpts Ally Derks, the IDFA festival director,...
View ArticleMarket Demand
As I continue to focus the goals of this project, I have drafted up some ideas as to how to characterize the needs of the current market:* The mainstream media shapes political discourse in ways that...
View ArticleWhat The Echo Chamber Can Provide
Addressing the market demand in the previous post, here is what I tentatively see as what The Echo Chamber can provide to the market:* The Echo Chamber explores the sociology of the media and brings a...
View ArticleIntegral Journalism -- A New Paradigm
There have been acknowledged failures of the mainstream media leading up to the war in Iraq. My Echo Chamber Hypothesis proposes that the "He Said/She Said" objectivity constraints of journalistic...
View ArticleNew Methods of Creating Meaning
The concept of Integral Filmmaking combined with the principles of Open Source could introduce new methods for how meaning is created. Traditionally, the Mainstream Media or documentary filmmakers had...
View ArticleA Message to High School Students
My high school picked me as an alumni of the month for Feburary, and they are setting up a display case where they want me to send some awards and other things about me. But instead of doing this, I've...
View ArticleActivist Technology M16 Meeting after SxSW
I was invited to a gathering of Activists & Technologists on March 16th at the Ventana del Soul Internet Cafe in Austin after the last day of the SXSW Interactive...
View ArticlePhase 08: Deliberation on Supporting Evidence & Editing Decisions
Keywords * Scaling Deliberative Democracy * Democratizing Media * Drupal ModulesContext * The gathering and analysis of information from the previous phase feeds into this deliberative phase. I imagine...
View ArticleThemes for the Future of New Media
Using the tagging technique in Final Cut Pro described here, I was able to come up with a number of major themes from the interviews that I conducted with 13 leaders of the new media movement at the...
View ArticleCitizen Journalism Implications of Blog Doc Controversy
(UPDATE 6/7/05 6:08p.m. -- John Hart has posted a public reply on his website, and I'm a bit speechless. It is certainly not a very rational response to the whole situation. Below were my thoughts on...
View ArticleWhy I Want to Help Innovate Open Media
I asked some of my volunteer transcribers to tell me some of the reasons why they're helping with this project, and a lot of their responses shows that they are largely driven their concerns about the...
View ArticleInterview Audio: Duane Elgin, Futurist & Media Activist, OurMediaVoice.org
Listen to the Interview with Duane Elgin, Futurist & Media Activist, OurMediaVoice.org (Length: 9:46)More interviews from the Consciousness & Healing Conference.Subscribe to Interview...
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