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Glossary

Possible Case Studies / types of local media:

Forums -- Wikis -- Blogs -- "Newspaper sites" (ex MetroMode below, describe this better) ad-hoc, citizen funded

• RocWiki http://rocwiki.org/ // http://civicwiki.org
  • more of a repository, but ours in Ann Arbor is used to document city changes, etc.
• New Orleans citizen media (MH has source through http://thinknola.com/ )
• DetroitYES forums, many other examples http://detroityes.com/
• Local news blogs, ex http://arborupdate.org
• Libraries and local news? (only a couple progressive examples)
• Local digital "newspapers" with organized funding, ex: http://www.metromodemedia.com/ and cousins
• Down to the scale of neighborhood-level discussion lists?
• CurrentTV -- Al Gore TV. UGC. Shorts. Pulled from audience content in some way. They pay for it. They buy all the rights forever and always. Aspiring producers go here to get their stuff? Learn stuff? Launching an IPO.
• The Root. Af am. target. Owned by Wash Post. Not user generated.
• WikiLeaks
• GroundReport -- an attempt to do national news, most of it submitted by users
• ChiTown Daily News. Knight Grantee. Ex-journalist started a paper.

Being written:

• Global Voices by an Annenberg PhD candidate

Looking for: Aggregator, News Agency

Look at what they're doing in terms of community

Notes from case-studies

Include the population size as well publication reach (census + reported stats) to give some perspective. The Off Track video is one ex.