http://www.america.govpublications/ejournalusa/0306/media-emerging.html.rss http://america.amgovcms.iip/publications/ejournalusa/0306/media-emerging/march-2006_html_html 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. http://america.amgovcms.iip/publications/ejournalusa/0306/media-emerging/march-2006_html_html Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:48:26 -0400