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| [[Image:Jtm-logo.jpg|140px|thumb|right|[http://www.journalismthatmatters.org Journalism That Matters]]]
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| [[Image:Rji-logo.jpg|140px|thumb|right|[http://www.rjionline.org D.W. Reynolds Journalism Institute]]]
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| [[Image:Newshare.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Eighteenth-century English and Colonial America coffee houses served as headquarters for shipping news and havens for gatherings of patriots. They were crucibles for democracy, a shared space for uninhibited debate and discussion of issues and events. Could 21st-century coffee shops -- well connected and served by a circuit-riding journalists -- help bring journalism back to community? [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/New-news-venues READ MORE]]]
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| =Rebooting Rockwell's America: News, Art and Community=
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| <big>A PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM / September 11-13, 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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| <H1>[http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Nrm-register COMING? REGISTER FOR EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNT NOW!]</H1>
| | =Event postponed -- Open planning session in Amherst Sept. 12= |
| The America of Norman Rockwell's mid-20th-century illustrations was rich with simple truths and sometimes hard choices. In that 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.
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| 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 engaged. A buy-now-pay later ethic has brought some of our most valued journalism institutions to the brink. Now even the Missouri [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~momonroe/countryeditor.htm country editor] works with bits and bytes alongside type and ink. Yet innovation abounds on the Internet, and we find new ways to connect and circulate. If Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter have taught us anything, it's that we may hunger for the constancy of community more than ever.
| | <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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| ===Options -- and tools ===
| | The core ideas we want to examine: Exploring the relationship among civic news, physical and virtual communities . . . and the |
| <big><b>Can we reboot Rockwell's America in a digital age? Do we want to? What might be the role of art, and culture? Join us Sept. 11-13 to consider the <I>options</i> -- and <i>tools.</i></b>
| | 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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| "Rebooting Rockwell's America," will pause for three days to consider the roots of American community, freedom, democracy -- and the journalism which protects each. We'll consider how a generation of virtual pamphleteers -- in cafes, schools, clubs and meeting rooms -- might help point us to common ground via physical places. And now there is the promise that these places will be digitally united across a world that grows smaller, faster, more diverse and more precious by the year.
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| == WHERE WE'LL GATHER -- OUR SPONSORS -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Nrm-program THE PROGRAM] ==
| | 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. |
| [[Image:Nrm-exterior.jpg|350px|thumb|left|[http://www.nrm.org Rockwell Museum]]]
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| "Rebooting Rockwell's America," is a initiative of the [http://www.nrm.org Norman Rockwell Museum,] and most of the sessions and breakouts will be hosted at the 00,000-square-foot museum in Stockbridge, Mass., the heart of the Berkshires, one of America's premiere cultural destinations. Four co-convenors are at the forefront of studying America's new news and community ecologies. They are the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism, the [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/about Media Giraffe Project] at the University of Massachusetts and the [http://www.journalismthatmatters.org Journalism that Matters] collaborative and the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University.
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| We'll convene Friday, Sept. 11, at 3 p.m., run through dinner and an evening program. Saturday will be filled with discussions, breakouts and work sessions. After an evening of entertainment on Saturday night, we'll collect convene on Sunday morning to collect thoughts and confirm actions, adjourning by noon.
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