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| [[Image:Jtm-logo.jpg|140px|thumb|right|[http://www.journalismthatmatters.org Journalism That Matters]]]
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| =Rebooting Rockwell's America:=
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| <big>A PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM: September 11-12, 2009 / Stockbridge, Massachusetts</big>
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| ==''News, values, cafes and the new pamphleteers -- <br>Sustaining democracy through civic engagement''==
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| <big>'''New roles for journalism -- and the net -- in fostering participatory democracy and community'''</big>
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| The America of Norman Rockwell's mid-20th-century illustrations was rich with simple truths and sometimes hard choices. In his world, we respected authority, and the flag. We were asked to embrace justice, equality and tolerance. The country editor personified the Four Freedoms at the grassroots. On Sept. 11, 2001, it was as if the last vestiges of Rockwell's stoic, insular yet generous nation had been torn asunder, and a new, darker period of fear opened. And even the country editor now works with bits and bytes alongside type and ink. Yet if Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter have taught us anything, it's that many of us hunger for community more than ever.
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| "Rebooting Rockwell's America," will pause for three days to consider the roots of American community, freedom, democracy and the news -- and how a generation of new pamphleteers -- in cafes, schools, clubs and meeting rooms -- may be helping point our nation back to a community of common purpose, grounded in physical places, yet digitally connected with a world that grows smaller, faster, more diverse and more precious by the year. | | =Event postponed -- Open planning session in Amherst Sept. 12= |
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| | <h3>The "Rockwell Reboot" event scheduled for Sept. 11-13 has been postponed. However, a free, one-day planning session for the future event is being held on Saturday, Sept. 12, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Amherst, Mass. public library. [http://dbs.hosting.crocker.com/wiki/index.php/Newshare (LEARN DETAILS AND SIGN UP TO ATTEND]. |
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| | The core ideas we want to examine: Exploring the relationship among civic news, physical and virtual communities . . . and the |
| | convergence of art with civic, participatory media . . . remains important and timely. We'll look at ways we can collectively address them in the future. |
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| | If you are interested in these ideas, please email [mailto:jtm@mediagiraffe.org jtm@mediagiraffe.org] and we will put you on our mailing list for updates. |
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