Community Knowledgebase: Locating Local Networks through the Community Newspaper [Print This Page]
- Time: 10:20-10:40 a.m.
- Date: Friday, Sept. 12
- Place: Fred W. Smith Forum, Reynolds Journalism Institute
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Community Knowledgebase is a next-generation software product (using the semantic Web) that generates local community networks by "reading" a newspaper's own archives and finding deep links between people, places and events. The network interface is designed to be used in reporting and editing, planning and auditing coverage, and enterprise and investigative reporting. It also interfaces with Web 2.0 applications to allow individuals to connect with a unique newspaper resource.
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Presenter: Lewis A. Friedland
Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lewis A. Friedland is a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and Department of Sociology (affiliated) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he directs the Center for Communication and Democracy. His current research interests include modeling the media and civic ecologies of local communities and developing civic mapping software and methods that can be used in a wide variety of community and journalism settings. Friedland is principal and managing partner of Community Knowledgebase, LLC, a community network software company which holds a Small Business Innovation Research contract with the U.S. Department of Education for the development of civic mapping curricula and software for American high schools. The company also is developing the next generation of software for local newsrooms in partnership with the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. Friedland is the author or co-author of four books and more than 40 monographs and book chapters, in addition to many articles on community and civic life, public journalism, public television, new communications technologies and democracy, and international communication. He has conducted research for and/or consulted with the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Kettering Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's National Center for Outreach. As a documentary producer and executive producer, Friedland has won national awards, including the du Pont-Columbia Silver Baton, Corporation for Public Broadcasting Gold, Society of Professional Journalists National Award and the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism, among others. Friedland received his doctorate in sociology from Brandeis University in 1985 and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1974.
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Kim Garretson
General Partner
Realist Ventures & Advisory Services
Blog: Realist
Kim Garretson, BJ '73, is a general partner in Realist Ventures & Advisory Services. He advises venture capital firms, early-stage consumer digital media companies, retailers and media companies on disruptive innovation. Previously, Garretson was the liaison to the venture capital industry for Best Buy's Corporate Strategy & Innovation division. Prior to that, Garretson co-founded NOVO Media Group, which was the fourth-largest digital agency at its sale to Leo Burnett in 2001. Garretson also has been a partner in the upper Midwest's largest marketing and public relations agency. He began his career as a senior editor and technology columnist for Better Homes and Gardens.
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Mike McKean
Director of the Futures Lab
Reynolds Journalism Institute
Mike McKean is the Futures Lab director at the Reynolds Journalism Institute and a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he has taught for 22 years. McKean created the School's convergence journalism program and chaired the convergence journalism faculty from 2005-2008. He is a leader in teaching with technology at the local, national and international levels. Winner of the MU's Innovator Award, McKean is chairing the campus Information Technology Committee; coordinating partnerships with Apple, Inc., AT&T and Adobe Systems; and helping establish convergence curricula at Moscow State University in Russia and Shantou University in China. McKean also has chaired the radio-TV news faculty at Missouri, served as Web director at KOMU-TV and news director of KBIA-FM. Before joining the School of Journalism, he was managing editor of KTRH NewsRadio in Houston and assistant news director at the Missourinet in Jefferson City.
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