Commission Meeting August 9
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A project of the Aspen Institute and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation |
The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy Meeting Agenda Mountain View, California · September 9, 2008
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Third Commission Meeting
Google Headquarters · Tunis Room · Building 43 · 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway · Mountain View, CA
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8:30-9:00 |
Welcome, Introductory Remarks, "Housekeeping" Matters |
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9:00-10:15 |
Presentation on Spectrum Issues and Consideration of Broadband Access Issue |
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10:15-10:30 |
Break |
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10:30-12:00 |
Presentations by Google experts on "democratic technologies" and business models |
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12:00-1:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00-1:45 |
Communities and Information Flow Presentation
Sandra Ball-Rokeach, Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, USC Annenberg School of Communication; Director, Communication Technology and Community Program; and Principal Investigator, Metamorphosis Project |
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1:45-3:15 |
Discussion of presentation and deliberation on defining "community information needs" |
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3:15-3:30 |
Break |
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3:30-5:00 |
Commission Deliberations: Defining the "fact-based information gathering" that needs enhanced support |
Sandra Ball-Rokeach
SandraBall-Rokeach is a professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, and is Director of the Communication Technology and Community Program. Ball-Rokeach is author or editor of sixbooks: Violence and the Media (with R. K. Baker), Theories of Mass Communication (with M. L. DeFleur), The Great American Values Test: Influencing Belief and Behavior through Television (with M. Rokeach & J. W. Grube),Media, Audience and Society (with M. G. Cantor), Paradoxes of Youth and Sport (with M. Gatz and M. Messner), and Technological Visions: The Hopes and Fears that Shape New Technologies (with M. Sturken and D. Thomas). Her published articles appear in such journals as Communication Research, Journalism Quarterly, Mass Communication and Society, American Sociological Review, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Communication, New Media and Society, Social Problems, and The American Psychologist.
Ball-Rokeach was co-editor (with C. R. Berger) of Communication Research from 1992 to 1997. She has been a Fulbright scholar at the Hebrew University and a Rockefeller Fellow at the Bellagio Study Center, and is a fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. She is presently serving on the advisory boards of The Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center and the McCune Foundation, and she is a past Chair of the Mass Communication Division of the International Communication Association. Ball-Rokeach also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Communication, Communication Studies, International Journal of Communication, Communication Research, and the Communication Yearbook.
Ball-Rokeach is also director of the Metamorphosis Project. Its mission is to understand the transformation of urban community under the forces of globalization, new communication technologies, and population diversity so that our research can inform practitioner and policy maker decisions. Its site of study is Los Angeles and its many ethnic communities of both new and settled immigrants.
The Project has developed a communication infrastructure perspective that privileges a grassroots understanding of how people construct and re-vitalize their residential communities, and how they go about solving everyday problems of family, health, inter-group relations, and ethnic identity. The team regards its challenge as making the communication infrastructure of daily life visible so that it can be employed by residents, practitioners, and policy makers to improve the quality of family and community life.
