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How do people in their homes, lives, and communities—and how do communities—create, access, and use information (or not) | How do people in their homes, lives, and communities—and how do communities—create, access, and use information (or not) | ||
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| + | Currently at a Gates Foundation meeting prior to American Library Association on the future of libraries and their role in communities. Role of libraries consistent with Knight Commission work. Knight Commission was interesting in that it started with info needs of communities rather than future of journalism per se. | ||
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The disruption isn’t to channels or industries or organizations but to all of us and our communities | The disruption isn’t to channels or industries or organizations but to all of us and our communities | ||
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| + | ===Larry:=== | ||
| − | + | *Teaches CS at Northwestern (23 years at NU, previously on faculty at Yale) | |
| + | *Background in Artificial Intelligence | ||
| + | *Works on technology and journalism | ||
| + | *Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor of Narrative Science | ||
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| + | *Do we work with investigative reporters? Yes, we’ve started a project in that space | ||
| + | *Recent prototype news commenting system | ||
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| + | ===Both:==== | ||
| + | *Job changes every 5 years even though we are still at the same institutions! | ||
| − | + | *How people communicate and share information is changing drastically. Is the pace sustainable? Gaps digital etc will they grow? | |
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| − | + | *From point of view of providers we don’t know; from the point of view of users, the goal is to make things as simple as possible. | |
| − | + | *Bigger divides and disconnects that journalism and community organizations need to bridge | |
| − | + | *Fragmentation of audiences – now the question is the technology | |
| − | + | *Journalism at the community level: Local community vs. other communities of interest | |
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| − | + | *Work that we’ve focused on is the need to redefine and understand relevance – the need for more research – hasn’t been done yet – need new ways of asking questions and getting info to make informed decisions | |
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| − | Journalism at the community level: Local community vs. other communities of interest | ||
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| − | New products that respond to what people want, succeeds; what you think is cool isn’t. | + | *New products that respond to what people want, succeeds; what you think is cool isn’t. |
| − | How to compensate creators – creating new ways of measure success | + | *How to compensate creators – creating new ways of measure success |
| − | Fast failure – people don’t know what they want, show them and then see | + | *Fast failure – people don’t know what they want, show them and then see |
| − | This requires a tolerance for failure | + | *This requires a tolerance for failure |
Revision as of 19:01, 22 June 2012
Contents
Larry Birnbaum's notes of his conversation with Amy Garmer:
Wednesday June 20
Amy:
Director Journalism Projects Aspen Institute / Directs work on Knight Commission on info needs of communities in a democracy
18 years with Aspen, previously worked for Sen. Sam Nunn / Policy-focused
How do people in their homes, lives, and communities—and how do communities—create, access, and use information (or not)
Communications and democracy issues
Currently at a Gates Foundation meeting prior to American Library Association on the future of libraries and their role in communities. Role of libraries consistent with Knight Commission work. Knight Commission was interesting in that it started with info needs of communities rather than future of journalism per se.
The disruption isn’t to channels or industries or organizations but to all of us and our communities
Larry:
- Teaches CS at Northwestern (23 years at NU, previously on faculty at Yale)
- Background in Artificial Intelligence
- Works on technology and journalism
- Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor of Narrative Science
- Do we work with investigative reporters? Yes, we’ve started a project in that space
- Recent prototype news commenting system
Both:=
- Job changes every 5 years even though we are still at the same institutions!
- How people communicate and share information is changing drastically. Is the pace sustainable? Gaps digital etc will they grow?
- From point of view of providers we don’t know; from the point of view of users, the goal is to make things as simple as possible.
- Bigger divides and disconnects that journalism and community organizations need to bridge
- Fragmentation of audiences – now the question is the technology
- Journalism at the community level: Local community vs. other communities of interest
Amy:
- Work that we’ve focused on is the need to redefine and understand relevance – the need for more research – hasn’t been done yet – need new ways of asking questions and getting info to make informed decisions
- New products that respond to what people want, succeeds; what you think is cool isn’t.
- How to compensate creators – creating new ways of measure success
- Fast failure – people don’t know what they want, show them and then see
- This requires a tolerance for failure
