Announcing the Media Research Hub

http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org <http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/> 

 

 

<http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/>  
<http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/>  <http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/>
 <http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/> The Media Research Hub is a new
online resource for researchers, advocates, practitioners, and
policymakers working for a more democratic and participatory public
sphere.  It is a portal to several different services for the media and
communications research and advocacy communities: 

 

Collaborative Grants support partnerships between academic researchers
and advocates. Grants are awarded through open competitions, held
several times per year.  The Collaborative grants portal can be used to
apply for SSRC grants or as a brokering service to bring together
researchers and research needs.

 

The Data Consortium for Media and Communications Policy works for the
principle that public policy should be made with publicly-available
data-a condition mostly absent from contemporary media and
communications policymaking.  The Data Consortium site contains a
community-editable database of datasets, designed to illuminate this
confusing and fragmented field of resources.

 

The Resource Database is a community-editable field-mapping tool for
linking people, institutions, research materials, networks, and
projects-and the relationships between them.  You may already be in it!
Users can maintain their own profiles, create or add to others, and
make, save, and export lists of resources for your own use.  The system
works like a highly structured wiki.

 

News, Events, and Opportunities for the media and communications field.

 

Creating an account gives you power to add to the site.  We encourage
you to do so, and make this a rich and accurate resource for the field.


 

To submit event listings or report a problem, contact [log in to unmask]
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The Media Research Hub is part of Social Science Research Council's 
Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere
<http://www.ssrc.org/programs/media>  program, which works to ensure
that debates about communications technologies and the media are shaped
by high-quality research and a rich understanding of the public
interest.