Announcing the Media Research Hub
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 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.