mapping public media
- SILVERDOCS discount for Beyond Broadcast attendees!
SILVERDOCS will be offering a $50 registration discount for Beyond Broadcast attendees. Click here to register, and Beyond Broadcast attendees are invited to sign up with the AFI Member discount. Hope to see you there!
- The art and science of mapping
This is the last full week to see MoMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind, an exhibit exploring how science and design are joining forces to help individuals cope with “dramatic changes in their experience of time, space, matter and identity.”
- See our updated agenda and demo pages, and participate!
Planning is really heating up for Beyond Broadcast 2008. We’ve revamped the day’s schedule to relate it more closely to our mapping themes, and make the format more conversational. We’ve pulled in participants from across the range of public media, from DIY creators to traditional public broadcasters. We’ve slated several hands-on demos that highlight new […]
- Rites of Passage: Mapping L.A.
PBS station KQET presents a more personal take on cartography with Mapping L.A., part of their “Web Stories” series.
Pedro, Jassy, Henry, Miguel, and Enzo—all students at the Los Angeles Leadership Academy—all sketched highly personal maps of their neighborhoods. Interactive elements allow the viewer to locate each student’s hand-drawn landmarks, including “love,” “enemies,” “prostitutes,” and the […]
- Mapping Out Activism
How are advocates using Google Earth to map genocide, environmental destruction and more?
Listen to this segment from “The Kojo Nnamdi Show” on D.C.’s WAMU to learn more. Guests from Google Earth Outreach, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Mapping Initiative and ecological organization Appalachian Voices explore how maps can be used to tell stories and bring […]
- Visualizing journalistic angst
Checking out the members of our Beyond Broadcast social network (62 and counting!), I ran across this tag cloud on Chrys Wu’s site:
- How does global news coverage shape our worldview?
credit: Alisa Miller, PRI
- Mapping the mortgage crisis
As Google Maps Mania reports, USA Today is using Google Maps to illustrate a rash of foreclosures in a Denver neighborhood.
Embedded in the map is information about each transaction: the foreclosure date, loan amount, and initial interest rate.The information is provided by Denver Public Trustee, the municipal office charged with processing foreclosure actions. Mashing […]
- Telling stories with maps
“I was the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
This is the first line in The 21 Steps, a Google map-based story recently published by Penguin Books. Proceeding a click at a time through an aeriel map of London (and then to Heathrow and points beyond), this noir tale can be slow […]
