[WSIS CS-Plenary] Announcing the Media Research Hub http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org

[SSRC media, communications, and information technology program announcements]

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  
mediahub at ssrc.org .

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.

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