Thread by @mediaghosts

Yes. I'm *supposed* to be presenting at #NCA. But due to "technical difficulties," I will not be able to deliver to #NCA21 this morning. Presenting live now on #mediadeserts in TikTok-ese for the research-averse out there #citeBlackwomen #mediadeserts: projector.com/story/06d773ad…

Just presented my live presentation via Projector via #NCA21. I'll post the pics in this thread on "Media Deserts/Media Seeds" ...framing matters and here's why...

Before there were snooze deserts there were media deserts and the research methodology/model I was developing with communities back in 2010 at @jtmstream events where I was workshopping my "News as Food" model...more on that later. Yes, that IS my map of North Carolina BTW🧐🧐

I had been building a networked online news model, with online community hubs at a Florida newspaper, extending our digital footprint to running an online community: poynter.org/reporting-edit…

As I built my model, I consulted w colleagues at the USDA that built the food desert map, to chat methodology challenges of scale, definitions, pinpoint/shape files, limitations and benefits of mapping systems like @Esri & what urban planners use. Important choices. #mediadeserts

I also worked with colleagues across the digital humanities to research and map digital affordances, network analyses, political mapping and the ways in which community and communication developed online. "Virtual Vines: Using Participatory Methods...
academia.edu/48748209/Virtu…

And have continued to build out the research methodology on #mediadeserts but to present and train on digital ethnography and modeling efforts with communities to design something better. Or point to gaps in our new ecosystem like #Patch and @LIONPubs: slideshare.net/locallygrownne…

In Ohio, I worked as project manager of the Media Seeds Project, an analysis of 22 Southeast Ohio counties, by all my measures they are media deserts. We did a whole lot more than plot points. Building on @jtmstream early re-invention work in journalism: slideshare.net/locallygrownne…

I've been using what I've learned to re-imagine a journalism curriculum for the next century. One based in inclusive, relational, engaged actions and delivering value to helping communities to thrive. The journalism we need to ensure a full historical record and democracy. #NCA21

AAAANNNDDDD you get some bonus info in the thread version;-). Join me in seizing back the narrative on #mediadeserts and what we need to be focused on in building a just, inclusive info & news ecosystem that serves ALL of us. mediadeserts.com. #NCA21

Here's the link to the non-narrated version: projector.com/story/06d773ad… Enjoy!

Here's one of the @jtmstream workshops/open space conversations I held in 2013, to discuss indicators for a healthy news and information ecologies...@tglaisyer was there👋🏾: journalismthatmatters.org/conversations/…

And look what other Tom was there in Denver...@tomstites discussing news coops...and me, mapping the media ecology with some colleagues. I describe the Media Deserts Project in my 2013 bio: newshare.com/jtm-denver/bio…

Or this 2012 Knight News Challenge proposal laying out my methodology, definitions, use case, policy intentions and might even mention news oases🧐🧐🧐. On Tumblr. Still there. #MediaDeserts newschallenge2.tumblr.com/post/255458888…