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March 2006

March 2006

Innovation in information technologies has thrust the world into an era of democratic media in which people have access to news and information unbound from traditional barriers of time and geography. Innovation gives rise to new media formats with new models for information distribution, consumption, and use. Traditional lines between the audience and media institutions are crossed as citizens gain access to platforms from which to express their own ideas and opinions, circumventing media corporations and governments, the long-standing gatekeepers of information.

Experts and pioneers in these changing technologies share their thoughts on the following pages, describing the innovations unfolding and offering a vision of what may lie ahead.

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Volume 11, Number 2

From The Editors

About This Issue

Featured Stories

Emerging Media Reshape Global Society
New technologies create new media, changing the distribution, consumption, and use of information and revolutionizing public consumption of information.
Newspapers Recreate Their Medium
Community newspapers are creating multimedia platforms for the delivery of their products, attempting to attract younger readers and an Internet audience.
How Community Newspapers Adapt to New Technology
New technology allows newspapers to make advantageous content, production, and delivery changes.
Broadcasters Getting Online, Staying On Air
The broadcasting industry has transformed the delivery and production of programming to survive in a changing marketplace.
Public Libraries in the Internet Age
Using the Internet, library professionals reach beyond the library walls to provide information services to their patrons.
Connecting Cultures on the Internet
The U.S. Library of Congress is launching an ambitious international effort to put precious items of artistic, historical, and literary significance on the Internet.

Featured Stories Continued

Readers Make a Newspaper Their Own
An urban newspaper creates the Town Square concept online, offering readers more interactivity, community journalism, and involvement.
The $100 Laptop
One Laptop Per Child is developing a machine to bring advanced technologies to more youngsters in poorer countries than ever before.
Bloggers Breaking Ground in Communication
Blogging is a conversational and collaborative medium that furthers the democratization of media.
Making Connections a World Away
Average people are able to reach far beyond their own communities to connect with new people, sharing interests and experiences. Three online projects are profiled.
Wikipedia
Native Youth Magazine.com
Youth Radio
Internet2—Creating Tomorrow's Internet
More than 200 universities are working with industry and government to develop and deploy applications and technologies to create tomorrow's Internet.
Fighting Online Crime
The FBI investigates the growing number of complaints about fraudulent, deceptive, and criminal activity online.
What Every e-Consumer Should Know
A prominent U.S. consumer advocacy group offers guidelines for avoiding fraud and deception online.
The Next New Thing Is Here
The rapidly expanding capabilities of wireless devices will make them the newest platform for delivering video in whatever form—games, news, and entertainment.

Photo Gallery

Online Albums

Photobloggers share their lives and ideas in photos.

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