Media Education

Oh happy day.

Here's the Jackass story.

MTV to Make 'Jackass' a Global Community

MTV Networks is launching Jackassworld.com as a global destination for all "Jackass" content. Following the success of the U.S. site, international editions will launch in the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and other countries, aiming to create a global community around the show.

Be still my beating heart. This is cause for celebration!

From Free Speech TV:

Following on the release of their 2005 "Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use," the Center for Social Media and the Washington College of Law at American University teamed up with Temple University's Media Education Lab to present a new report this fall on "Colin Rhinesmith's blog  •  Login or register to post comments  •  Read more

01-19-2008 -- UPDATE: Watch a 22-minute video interview with Jim Klurfeld and Howard Schneider:

http://newshare.typepad.com/mgpaudio/2008/01/video-the-deman.html

Through my work as a Digital Media Producer for the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, I was fortunate to be able to help produce a podcast (MP3) from today's luncheon series with Drew Clark, Project Manager for the Center for Public Integrity.

The crux of Tom Regan's thesis (article below) is: "The reality in today's world of online journalism is that both old and new views count, and traditional journalists ignore this at their own peril."

He defines "new" news views as youth interests such as stories about the iPhone and "old" views as NY Times stories about the Iraq war. I see it as more than youth vs aged.