We Media Nonprofit Journalism panel, continued...
I'm hoping that this session goes interactive shortly. So far, it's been a showcase for, admittedly vital, projects (see previous post).
Ok, we are "opening it up."
John Bracken: Ellen is finding that Sunlight's audience is not the "ordinary citizens," but rather "engaged citizens."
Ellen: "We all are interested in engaging citizens, but how many people are going to go to a site called opencongress.org?" They are looking at ways to link people with common policy interests.
Sunlight is doing some crowdsourcing research projects, including one to discover how many Congress people have hired spouses for government jobs. They had 5o participants, 12 serious ones, and it was completed over a holiday weekend. One participant wrote to say "I loved this. It was like a game. I always wanted to be an investigative journalist." This participant has returned to school to do just that.
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"To be sure, [society] cannot exist except through the individuals who serve as its substratum; it is, however, something more than a collection of individuals. A whole is not identical to the sum of its parts, even though without them it would be nothing. In the same way, by coming together in a definite structure..., men [sic] form a new entity which has its own nature and its own laws." -Emile Durkheim, A Course in Sociology
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Why do wars and revolutions happen? We do not know. We know only that to produce the one or the other men [sic] form themselves into a certain combination in which all take part; and we say that this is the nature of men [sic], that this is the law" -Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"A phase transition is a sudden, global change in behaviour arising from the interactions of many constituent particles" -Philip Ball, Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
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- Nathaniel James
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- In my professional life, I'm the Campaign Coordinator at the Media and Democracy Coalition. Beyond my commitment to advancing the values of justice and democracy in the media sphere through policy change and advancing community media, I have an intense interest in the social structure and process of intra and inter-organizational collaboration; social networks and social network analysis; network theory; complex systems; and emergent phenomenon. The views expressed here are my own and don't reflect the positions of any organizational entity.