We The Media
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We The Media is a hub for research articles that focus on the media watchdog, fact checking and citizen journalism activities of indy media, as well as political advocacy movements and organizations protecting the freedom of information and free speech.
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[edit] Prison Library Advocacy
Prison Library Advocacy organizes research on the subject of prison libraries and rehabilitation. By studying the trends of prison library activists, studying prison library history, and statistics based on this activism, it will also draw conclusions as to how access to information for prisoners leads to an accelerated rehabilitation period during incarceration.
Article contributed by: Emily Beanblossom
[edit] Election '08
Election '08 will cover the increasing impact the world wide web is having on elections. Furthermore, it will cover how politicians have been utilizing the internet to secure donation dollars, how activists have been using the internet to create change, and how social networking sites have influenced politics and have affected the primary and the upcoming general election.
Article contributed by: Drew Grissom
[edit] Digital Humanities and ITL
Digital Humanities and ITL annotates and suggests a selection of the readings completed in the library internship program over the past couple of years. The readings are primarily from the histories of knowledge and technology, communications and media studies, and the pedagogy of digital humanities. Also included are several of "case study" selections that complement the general readings above with close examinations of the web's impact on specific institutional and intellectual contexts. Taken together, these represent an attempt to place the arrival of digital media, and their location on the world wide web, into the long sweep of the western intellectual tradition.
Article contributed by: Jules Unsel
