Check out the Center for Social Media’s Future of Public Media FAQ to learn more about “media for public knowledge and action.”

Read Barbara Abrash’s analysis of Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes–the first in a series of “field reports” about the future of public media. Abrash is the Director of Public Programs of the Center for Media, Culture and History at New York University.

Related books:

• Else/Where: Mapping, Janet Abrams / University Of Minnesota Press
• You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, Katherine Harmon, Princeton Architectural Press
• Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy, Jeff Chester, The New Press
• Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, Henry Jenkins, New York University Press
• The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, Jonathan Zittrain, Yale University Press