Dutton: “A Renewed Focus on the Quality of Local News and Information”

“A Renewed Focus on the Quality of Local News and Information“ by William H. Dutton, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute and Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University, posted to his blog, August 13, 2010.

The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program is organizing an event focused on News Cities: The Next Generation of Healthy Informed Communities on August 16, starting at 10:30 a.m. eastern time, which will be an interactive livestream.  The Twitter hashtag for this event is #FOCAS10. Their aim is to ‘develop a set of actionable steps to improve the information health of communities.’ This builds on work of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, and renewed focus in the UK on the role of the Internet and the media in local communities…

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