Posted in Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Democracy's Challenge, Evaluation, Get Involved, Idea Exchange, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events, deliberate, social networking on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
It would be interesting if they said something we hadn’t heard. Barack makes a joke about “No Child Left Behind” and talks about the money left behind but doesn’t get a big response here. Bonnie observes that most of the people here are taking it all blandly and no one is getting up [...]
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Posted in Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Democracy's Challenge, Dialogue and Deliberation Models, Facing Racism, Get Involved, Guest Bloggers, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events, deliberate on June 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Tavis’s show at PBS is now begining and it’s talking about the “Covenant with Black America.” The G21 team here, Allaina and I are Blogging on the event. It turns our that Yours Unruly is a celeb because I’m the only working journalist at the event. I was interviewed by a [...]
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Posted in Citizen Journalism, Civic Entrepreneurship, Commentary, Democracy's Challenge, Dialogue and Deliberation Models, Facing Racism, Idea Exchange, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events, deliberate on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
28 June 2007: This evening I’m reporting from the LBJ Library at the University of Texas (UT) on Tavis Smiley’s Public Broadcasting System (PBS) forum with the candidates for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States. Like many other Bloggers here tonight, I’m suppose to be an ear to what our community [...]
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I’ve discovered a cool tool for embedding comments and links that allow you to jump to a particular place in a podcast. This is one way to create a discussion about pieces in a podcast or to quickly find specific references within a podcast.
If I’ve done this right, this link will take you to a [...]
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Cole Campbell, dean of the Donald W. Reynolds Schools of Journalism at the University of Nevada, research associate for the Kettering Foundation, and friend died last Friday when his car flipped on an icy road.
The world not only lost a champion for public journalism. We lost a great man and a dear friend.
I can’t top [...]
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In November, Texas Forums hosted two online events -a workshop on Civic Reflection and a discussion with the author of the report on Democracy’s Challenge: Reclaiming the Public’s Role forums.
These and other online workshops are archived on the new Opal Online Civic Engagement Archive Page! You can watch and hear the entire presentation including the [...]
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[cross posted on The Deliberative Democracy Blog ]
You may have seen invitations from me to attend virtual workshops on libraries (and other public institutions) and Civic Engagement using the Online Programming for All Libraries (OPAL) environment. These are now archived and ready to be replayed. If you have ideas for future workshops or panel [...]
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Public Thinking about
“Democracy’s Challenge:
Reclaiming the Public’s Role”
So what happens to all of that information that comes out of a forum?
Where does that information go?
What did people in other forums have to say about Democracy’s Challenge?
Join the researchers from Doble Research Associates for a virtual roundtable on November 15 and learn about the results of [...]
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Dr. David Matthews explained that politics began when a village faced a problem of a flood and the public decided “to move the damn village”. Today, politics has been construed as a system outside of the public’s hand: it is elite, exclusive, ineffective, untrustworthy, divisive and to be avoided in public discussion at the dinner [...]
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