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Changing the World through Gaming – ICED as a Case Study

[Source: by Mallika Dutt, President & CEO, Breakthrough, July 15, 2010]
Video games will change the world.

Hacking the Policy Space

[Source: CultureWork, by Helen De Michiel]
I am sitting with a group of public media and community arts leaders at a recent lunch meeting hosted by Charles Benton, CEO of The Benton Foundation. We are here for the annual media reform ...

Highlights from 2010 Media Grantmaking — The State and Future of the Field

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The 2010 Funder Conversation: Media Grantmaking — The State (and Future) of the FieldPresented by: Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media and the Media Democracy FundHosted by: The Open Society ...

New Media Caucus Panels and Events at the CAA Conference, Chicago, 2010

[Source: NMC Media-N, June 17, 2010]
From PhD’s to the Poles to Live Cinema – at this year’s CAA conference the New Media Caucus excelled itself once again in representing both the diversity and depth of new media research and ...

The GFEM Media Database | Spotlight on LGBTQ COMMUNITIES

If your foundation supports LGBTQ issues, you won’t want to miss these and other projects in the GFEM Media Database at media.gfem.org.Breaking Free

TV Gives Dance a Boost, and That’s Good, Right?

[Source: The New York Times, by Stacy Kranitz, June 7, 2010]
In the 1990s the British producer Nigel Lythgoe confronted an unanticipated and unsettling side effect to the popularity of his television series “Gladiators”: children were emulating the show’s ...

The Force Behind HBO’s Documentaries

[Source: The New York Times, by Elizabeth Jensen, June 11, 2010]
One recent midday eight producers, editors and researchers of an HBO documentary on postwar traumatic stress, “Traumatology: The Art of Coming Home,” were gathered in Sheila Nevins’s “documentary ...

NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera

[Source: Columbia University School of Journalism]
Now accepting applications for the 2010 InstituteThe seventh National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera – part of a series of NEA-funded programs ...

Taking the Arts Seriously

[Source: Huffington Post, by Agnes Gund, June 7, 2010]
Where do the arts fit in relation to other important parts of our society? Where are they situated in the consciousness of our time? I find myself thinking about this a lot, worrying that the ...

Fourth Annual Logan Symposium Attracts Top Investigative Reporters

The fourth annual Logan Symposium, April 16 – 18, 2010, the Investigative Reporting Program’s [IRP] annual ‘invite only’ conclave, brought together almost 300 of the nation’s top investigative ...