Fresh Media at Change Camp

Freshies Kat, Steve, and Amanda will be hitting up Vancouver Change Camp this Saturday, June 12, and proposing a discussion that will help inform a Fresh Media Summer Series of networking events and information sessions. If you’re around and interested, you can sign up for Change Camp and join us, or read more about Change Camp here!

Here’s what we’re proposing:

Freshening up Canadian Media
Media makers are beginning to use social media to draw out more stories and information, looking to crowd-source knowledge from the people formally known as the “audience.” Fresh Media, a project of OpenMedia.ca, is looking for input on how we can bring more media innovation, participatory quality journalism, and new forms of artistic expression to Vancouver and Canada. This session will help inform a series of networking events to take place later this summer aimed at bringing media makers, technologists, and citizens together to re-invent our media system. What can we as citizens could do to remake media, support independent media, and further develop participatory quality journalism? How can we stop approaching social media and investigative journalism as being at odds with one another, and instead help enable media makers to use social media as a way to collect citizen input in their work? How can we enable and empower independent media makers to take center stage in our media ecology.
Proposed by Fresh Media (amanda@openmedia.ca //www.freshmedia.me// , //www.openmedia.ca//)