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Apr 21-25, 2010 Perugia, Italy @journalism_fest - bact'

This paper challenges journalists’ relationship with their sources by comparing it with the relationship between anthropologists and their informants. While anthropology and journalism use similar methods and, many times, produce a similar kind of knowledge, the two professions have significantly different views of their sources. Like all social sciences, anthropology is subject to the federal regulation for research with human subjects. [...] This paper shows that both arguments for exemption are unsustainable and analyzes three other possible incompatibilities between journalism and the federal regulation: the watchdog role of the press, the apparent conflict between confidentiality and credibility, and journalists’ reluctance to take responsibility for the consequences of what they publish. It concludes that news professionals’ understanding of truth in terms of facticity and of their job as the mere transmission of such truths impairs their sense of ethical responsibility. - bact'

The importance of public media for the perception, structuring and interpretation of the world has not diminished with the global spread of the internet and the corresponding multiplication of potentially competing frameworks of interpretation – on the contrary. Because of their differing treatment of information and work routine, anthropologists and ethnologists often harbour a deep-seated mistrust towards journalists, and postulate a sharp divide between journalism and science: International journalists might cover a hostage situation in an embassy in Central Asia on one day, to cover another crisis situation in a totally different part of the world the next. Similarly, local journalists can report today about the political developments in a community, and tomorrow write about the integration of troublesome youths, an entirely different topic. ... - bact'

has Bibliography on the anthropological studies of news and journalism - bact'

I’ve long believed that social anthropology has a wealth of material to offer journalism. It was partly my supervisor urging me to make my final year undergrad dissertation more like a piece of academia than a piece of journalism that convinced me to pursue the career I now find myself in. I quite enjoyed dropping the - at times - frustrating theory for the - at times - frustrating soundbites (but, who knows - maybe I’ll return to it one day). - bact'

With these concerns in mind, we invite submissions for an April Anthropology News issue on anthropology and journalism. We welcome proposals for In Focus commentaries, Teaching Strategies pieces, Field Notes articles, photo essays, news stories and interviews that address the relationship between anthropology and journalism in a variety of ways. For example, why are some anthropological fields (such as archaeology) more frequently included in news media than others? Is it an issue of public interest, awareness or accessibility? How might one relate the investigative methods of anthropologists and journalists? What strategies have anthropologists successfully adopted in pursuing work in print, radio, television and digital news media? Will the increasing popularity of applied anthropology impact our relationship with journalism? Proposals on additional topics are welcome from anthropologists, journalists, publishers, producers and others engaged in these fields. - bact'

Jared Diamond appears to have done a bad thing in publishing the real names of his source for his account of vengeance and war in Papua New Guinea. His source--and others also named in Diamond's New Yorker story--are pissed off, and perhaps now in some extra physical danger. - bact'

One of my latests interests is "Anthropology Journalism". This term does not hold much cogency in either field, aside from discussions about their methodological similarities. With the intense focus many anthropologists expend on matters of "authorship" and "authority", I assume there is much more discussion about these matters that I am simply not aware of. [Please educate me with a comment.] - bact'

This article was written years ago when I was working as a television newscaster, and it was published in a journal intended for professional broadcast journalists. The main focus of the article is on the similarities and differences between anthropology and journalism, but its principal significance for our course [i.e., Introduction to Cultural Anthropology] is its discussion of the ways in which journalists unwittingly act as agents of governmental thought control—i.e., the ways in which the mass media in modern societies assist the political organization in its efforts at internal social control. - bact'

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anthropological journalist Where is anthropology's Ida Tarbell? Its I.F. Stone? Its Lincoln Steffens? All were outstanding journalists, chroniclers of the culture, resources and power of their times. And where is anthropology's Juan Cole? Its Stanley Aronowitz? Its Noam Chomsky? A historian, sociologist and linguist respectively. All are academicians. All are well known public writers. - bact'

Odt2daisy is an OpenOffice.org Writer extension, enabling to export in DAISY 3 format, including support of Mathematical content conforming to the MathML standard. DAISY is an NISO Z39.86 standard for blind, visual impaired, print-disabled, and learning-disabled people. The odt2daisy project is supported with the financial contribution of the European Commission in the context of the AEGIS project - open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards. Partners involved in ODF-related work in AEGIS include SUN Microsystems and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. - bact'

an EU ICT programme. core objective of ÆGIS is to address the major economic barriers to e-Inclusion. 3rd generation access techniques results in equal or better end-user access experiences. develop a set of embeddable assistive technologies for mobile devices develop a set of user agents for desktop and mobile devices which leverage and translate a cross-platform accessibility API from the 3rd generation access techniques of the web, to the desktop and mobile accessibility APIs – in such a fashion as to give users with disabilities the same utility and accessibility with rich Internet applications as they have with accessible desktop applications. - bact'

transforming the future of news - bact'

On the evening of November 9, 1989, I was watching TV. The Berlin Wall was coming down, and I was flabbergasted. - bact'

composition, social change, language, performance, cybernetics - bact'

The mission of the National Center for Media Engagement is to ensure public media as essential to building community connections across multiple platforms. We provide resources for stations and producers that engage and educate citizens, build sustainable community relationships and stimulate citizen participation. Our Vision National Center for Media Engagement is the recognized catalytic leader for community engagement by public broadcasting across all platforms. We provide vigorous leadership, timely guidance, and finely tuned resources on multiple platforms We maintain a constant focus on the changing needs of both radio and television stations, as well as national producers of content, and public broadcasting leadership organizations We carefully follow and experiment with new technologies and what might be considered “best practices” and models, to both create and deliver community engagement initiatives on every platform. - bact'

This report is the second in a series of three on the status of United States (US) and international understanding of and funding for media literacy drawn from information and data that have been gathered from dozens of interviews, many internal documents, and multiple reports. From the Executive Summary: "Citizen journalists may turn out to be the 21st century’s most potent force for creating, supporting, and building open and democratic societies. In environments where poor infrastructure, minimal access to technology, and small-scale economies impede the creation or sustainability of mainstream independent media, and in countries where repressive governments limit the ability of professional journalists to operate freely, citizen journalists are filling the gaps. Yet citizen journalists often have no formal journalism training nor - perhaps more critically - any training in the essential roles independent media play in ensuring accountable and transparent government. - bact'