A workshop by Princeton University`s Center for Information Technology Policy invites academics, publishers, journalists, bloggers, and information technology researchers to compare notes on how the Internet is transforming the news media.

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(May 14-15, 2008 at Princeton University`s Center for Information Technology Policy.  Conference sponsored by Microsoft)

Agenda:

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Welcoming Remarks Ed Felten, Director, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University

Keynote talk by Paul Starr, Stuart Prof. of Communications and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

(Keynote video has expired and is no longer available - 11/21/08)

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Panel 1: The People Formerly Known as the Audience

 How effectively can users collectively create and filter the stream of news information? How much of journalism can or will be “devolved” from professionals to networks of amateurs? What new challenges do these collective modes of news production create? Could informal flows of information in online social networks challenge the idea of “news” as we know it?

• Dan Gillmor, Director of the new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
• Steve Boriss, The Future of News blog
• Reihan Salam, The Atlantic

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Panel 2: Economics of News

How will technology-driven changes in advertising markets reshape the news media landscape? Can traditional, high-cost methods of newsgathering support themselves through other means? To what extent will action-guiding business intelligence and other “private journalism”, designed to create information asymmetries among news consumers, supplant or merge with globally accessible news?

• Gordon Crovitz, former publisher, The Wall Street Journal
• Mark Davis, Vice President for Strategy, The San Diego Union-Tribune
• Eric Alterman, Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Professor of Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Attention, Distraction, and Information Glut - Featured talk by David Robinson, Assoc. Dir., Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University

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Panel 3: Data Mining, Interactivity and Visualization

 To what extent will new tools for visualizing and artfully presenting large data sets reduce the need for human intermediaries between facts and news consumers? How can news be presented via simulation and interactive tools? What new kinds of questions can professional journalists ask and answer using digital technologies?

• Matthew Hurst, Microsoft Live Labs. Blogger at Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media
• Kevin Anderson, the Guardian
• David Blei, Princeton Department of Computer Science

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Panel 4: The Medium’s New Message

What are the effects of changing news consumption on political behavior? What does a public life populated by social media “producers” look like? How will people cope with the new information glut?

• Markus Prior, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Politics at Princeton University.
• JD Lasica, writer and consultant, co-founder and editorial director of Ourmedia.com, president of the Social Media Group.
• Ed Tenner, historian of technology and author of Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity, and Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences.