http://blog.bradrourke.com/2009/11/17/new-media-and-civic-life-interview-with-noelle-mcafee/ Thoughts for leaders where new media meets public life. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:08:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.bradrourke.com/2009/11/17/new-media-and-civic-life-interview-with-noelle-mcafee/comment-page-1/#comment-1394 Connecting New Media and the Political Unconscious « gonepublic: philosophy, politics, & public life Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:05:26 +0000 http://blog.bradrourke.com/?p=1649#comment-1394 [...] Early this week Brad Rourke, whom I know through our mutual association with the Kettering Foundation, engaged me in a conversation on the subject of his own work, new media and civic life, picking up some of the themes in my previous post, Discerning Media. We made a couple of key points: (1) the distinction between professional media and citizen media is less helpful than the distinction between journalism (which one doesn’t need to get paid for to do) that engages the public in its work and news coverage that does not; and (2) perhaps the larger problem we face is that we live in a political culture that offers few spaces and ways for people to shape their own collective future. Here’s a link to the podcast. [...] [...] Early this week Brad Rourke, whom I know through our mutual association with the Kettering Foundation, engaged me in a conversation on the subject of his own work, new media and civic life, picking up some of the themes in my previous post, Discerning Media. We made a couple of key points: (1) the distinction between professional media and citizen media is less helpful than the distinction between journalism (which one doesn’t need to get paid for to do) that engages the public in its work and news coverage that does not; and (2) perhaps the larger problem we face is that we live in a political culture that offers few spaces and ways for people to shape their own collective future. Here’s a link to the podcast. [...]

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