Summit topics

Topics covered in 41 discussion sessions at MGP2006

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• Will journalism stay relevant? To whom? And How?
• Setting the scene: What's the Future of the Web and News?
• The Madison Commons: Can MSM and citizens work together?
• Finding a New Definition Of Journalism
• Quality: How Do You Measure It?
• When the Press Becomes a Pipe, Who Controls?
• Can Free Media Sustain Democracy?
• Immigrant / Ethnic Markets: No Longer Below the Radar
• (tentative) The Philadelphia experiment
• Journalism That Matters: The New News Ecology
• Can Ownership Make a Difference?
• The Internet as an Organizing Tool
• When Web Data Makes News
• The Internet as a Government-to-Citizen Tool
• Building Bridges with Blogging -- a Case Study
• The Maine Blogger: Case Study of a Blogstorm
• Is it Time to Build the New England Common?
• Anonymity and identity: Journalists/bloggers sources and whistleblowers
• Citizen Journalism in Action: A Practicum
• Creating Digital Video For Classrooms -- a Case Study
• News a la Carte -- Fracturing The Public Sphere?
• The Internet As An Advocacy Tool -- Case Studies
• Morphing from Music: iPods enter the Classroom
• Who Will Narrow the Digital Divide?
• Political Blogs: Free Speech or Campaigning?
• Merging Forms: Is the Medium Still the Message?
• Streaming Source Material: Lectures On Demand?
• Innovate, Die Or Be Sold: A Prescription for the News Company of the Future
• How Katrina Changed the News Ecology
• Can Old Media Be Part of the New News Ecology?
• Citizen Media Filmmaking Workshop & Festival
• Journalism That Matters: Looking Beyond the Newsroom Walls
• Citizen Media Bootcamp: Why Citizen Journalism?
• Is Media Performance Democracy's Critical Issue?
• Your Project: Expert Feedback
• Why Doesn't Johnny Care? How Can Media Bring Young Adults Back Into the Public Sphere?
• War Stories - Avoiding Other's Mistakes
• The Daily Grind
• What Did We Learn/What's Next?
• Keeping Participatory Democracy Alive: Talking Across the Divides Of Media, Politics, Education and Technology