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http://publicplease.org

Public Please helps citizen journalists report, review, and reformulate developments in the citizen media movement. We aim to increase transparency, accountability, and participation in politics by promoting the design of democratic media systems.

Tags:
  1. Democracy,
  2. online petition,
  3. Political communication,
  4. Citizen Journalism,
  5. public discourse,
  6. Netroots,
  7. public media,
  8. Government,
  9. Civic Education,
  10. Media Reform,
  11. transparency,
  12. civic media,
  13. civic participation,
  14. Citizen,
  15. cyberactivism,
  16. technology,
  17. Accountability,
  18. Progressive Politics
Authors:
  1. wanderingwill
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Latest posts

  1. Does Satire Hold Them Accountable?

    http://publicplease.org/2008/07/02/does-satire-hold-them-accountable/

    Remix America promises to bring political satire, and its implicit accountability, to a new level. Now, people can mix and mash embarassing videos of political celebrities like Obama and McCain. Beyond the question of rudeness, we must ask whether these entertainments, and their remixed satire, actually foster a civic perspective. …

    4 days ago

  2. Is McCain Better Than Obama For The Economy?

    http://publicplease.org/2008/06/15/is-mccain-better-than-obama-for-the-economy/

    I recently read Jennifer Ablan’s article, “At Reuters Summit, McCain seen as best choice for economy“, that reported that some people on Wall Street think McCain would be better for our economy than Obama because of his tax policies. …

    16 days ago

  3. PoliChat

    http://publicplease.org/2008/04/22/polichat/

    For my final project, I’m working on PoliChat, a web-based tool for large-scale democratic intergroup chat. It is intended to facilitate communication between groups. For example, citizens and politicians can create groups and democratically chat with each other. …

    75 days ago
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5 blog reactions

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    THATCamp and All That

    http://edwired.org/?p=304

    Cultural Gardens project at Cleveland State University. Much of what they are already doing is what I intend to do with my students over the next few summers. Another project demo’d in this session was the PoliMap Beta. This interesting project is a mash up between a GoogleDocs spreadsheet and GoogleMaps. This project, developed in just a couple of days by Will Riley at Georgia Tech, shows just how easily free tools can be combined to create very interesting

    36 days ago in edwired by tkelly7 · Authority: 48
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    The Largest Minority

    http://www.jwharrison.com/blog

    Mainbrace MeInAction Mock, Paper, Scissors ModernMusings Monkey Muck My political exile in Argentina Naeem's Blog News of the Restless No Cure for That Phydeaux Speaks PoliTits Progressive for President 2008 Public Please Raising Yousuf, Unplugged Revolt Today Socialism or Your Money Back Stump Lane The Apostate The Aristocrats The Barefoot Bum The Field Negro The Garlic The Hermit The Intelligence Daily The Osterley Times

    79 days ago in The Largest Minority by ManilaRyce · Authority: 140
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    The Largest Minority

    http://www.jwharrison.com/blog

    Mainbrace MeInAction Mock, Paper, Scissors ModernMusings Monkey Muck My political exile in Argentina Naeem's Blog News of the Restless No Cure for That Phydeaux Speaks PoliTits Progressive for President 2008 Public Please Raising Yousuf, Unplugged Revolt Today Socialism or Your Money Back Stump Lane The Apostate The Aristocrats The Barefoot Bum The Field Negro The Garlic The Hermit The Intelligence Daily The Osterley Times

    82 days ago in The Largest Minority by ManilaRyce · Authority: 140
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    What Waterboarding Bill?

    http://www.opencongress.org/articles/view/443-What-Waterboar...

    First of all, the "waterboarding bill" that President Bush vetoed over the weekend was H.R. 2082, the 2008 Intelligence Authorization act. Second, Will Riley at PublicPlease makes a good point about how difficult it is to find out this simple fact of the story if your source for news, like the majority of Americans, is the mainstream media: Have you read about a bill in an online news article and wanted to read the bill?

    118 days ago in OpenCongress - Congress Gossip Blog · Authority: 15
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    New Paradigm: Professional Citizen Journalists

    http://pjnet.org/post/1723/

    Usually when we think of citizen journalists, we think of amateurs; the paid journalists are the professionals. That’s the pro/am model as Jay Rosen helped frame it. But Will Riley, a doctoral student studying digital media at Georgia Tech, defines it differently. For him, on the one hand, you could have well trained professional citizen journalists and, on the other, well trained professional corporate journalists. His is obviously a thought experiment in progress, but he has a worthy idea from which to

    153 days ago in PJNet - Public Journalism Network by Lwitt · Authority: 94