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Subject: [activistscholarship] SSRC Collaborative Grants in Media and
Communications: First Round Grants Announced
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*Collaborative Grants in Media and Communications:*
*First Round Grants Announced*
* *
The Social Science Research Council <http://www.ssrc.org/> is proud to
announce the first round of small grants for academic-advocacy collaboration
in the media and communications field. The first round will provide grants
of up to $7,500 for research that supports advocacy, organizing, policy
and/or campaign uses in the media and communications field in the US. The
grants are intended for short-term work, completable and usable by advocacy
partners within the next 4-12 months. Six grants have been awarded in this
first round.
Congratulations to Children Now, the Consumers Federation of America, the
Latinos and Media Project, Media Alliance, the Minority Media &
Telecommunications Council and Radio Bilingüe.
We continue to welcome applications from organizations of all sizes,
concerned with the full range of issues relevant to media and communications
policy and advocacy. Future submissions will be considered on a rolling
basis by the Selection Committee. See the "Call for
Proposals<http://www.ssrc.org/programs/media/publications/Collab%20Grants%20CFP.pdf>"
for further information.
* *
*Descriptions of First Round Grant Recipients*
* *
*Project: Updating "Big Media, Little
Kids"*
Organization: Children
Now<http://www.childrennow.org/>
Principal Researcher: Katharine Heintz-Knowles, Ph.D
Description: Children Now is very concerned
about the impact of media ownership on the nation's children. Providing a
diverse array of quality programs for children is central to the public
interest obligations of broadcasters. In 2003, Children Now successfully
advocated for the protection of children's programming using a two-fold
strategy of research and advocacy to achieve our goals. Now, as the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) prepares to revisit rules related to media
ownership, Children Now plans to employ this strategy again to keep the
spotlight on the impact of media consolidation on our nation's children.
Conducted in 2003 to inform the FCC during the last ownership proceeding, *Big
Media, Little Kids *examined the availability and diversity of children's
programming in an increasingly consolidated media marketplace. In order to
build on the success of the 2003 study, we plan to conduct a broader
follow-up study that analyzes the impact of media consolidation on
children's programs in several markets across the country.
* *
*Project: Local Market Structure and Local
TV News Content*
Organization: Consumer Federation of America
<http://www.consumerfed.org/>and the Local Television News Media
Project<http://www.localtvnews.org/index.jsp>
Principal Researcher: Mark Cooper, Ph.D
Description: This proposal seeks to mine a
unique database developed by the Local Television News Media Project (LTNMP)
at the University of Delaware . The database supports the LTNMP website (
www.localtvnews.org) and contains over 10,600 digitized local television
news stories from over 600 broadcasts in 20 television markets across the
U.S. in 1998. The stories are searchable along content, production and
geographic dimensions and viewable in their entirety. The Website is being
expanded to include another 7,500 local television news stories from over
500 broadcasts in seventeen television markets in 2002. In this project, we
will use the database to examine whether or not the consolidation of local
television news ownership improves market performance regarding the quality
and quantity of local television news.
*Project: Assessing the Diversity of
Latino-Oriented Media in Local Settings*
Organization: The Latinos and Media
Project<http://www.latinosandmedia.org/>
Principal Researcher: Federico Subervi, Ph.D.
Description: This project will gather baseline
data required for assessments of diversity of media and voices in local
communities. While primarily focused on Latino demographics, audiences, and
Latino-oriented media in central Texas (Austin and San Antonio), it will
also gather similar data related to other populations and media. The
project will test the feasibility of the new metrics proposed by the
Diversity Metrics Working Group to assess media diversity, in this case in
significantly Latino settings. All data and findings will be made available
to the groups currently engaged in discussion of democratization of media
and communication across the country.
*Project: What's meant by digital
inclusion? An interrogation of the digital inclusion framework advocated by
municipal government versus community-based media activists in the city of
San Francisco*
Organization: Media
Alliance<http://www.media-alliance.org/>
Principal Researcher: Seeta Peña Gangadharan
Description: This study seeks to understand
contested meanings of the term "digital inclusion" during the public
process to develop a municipal wireless system in the city of San Francisco.
By comparing official city discourse with that of community-based activists
involved with Media Alliance's Internet 4 Everyone campaign, this research
offers suggestions on how to redefine "digital inclusion" for municipal
wireless broadband initiatives elsewhere in the United States.
*Project: Survey on the Relationship
between Minority and Female Ownership and Media Consolidation*
Organization: Minority Media & Telecommunications
Council <http://www.mmtconline.org/>
Principal Researcher (s): Catherine Sandoval, Allen Hammond IV
Description: The Minority Media &
Telecommunications Council (MMTC) seeks to develop a survey instrument that
can be used to discern the relationship between minority and female
ownership and media consolidation. We seek to survey minority and female
owners who have entered or exited the communications industry between 2001
and 2005 to determine the extent to which various factors may have affected
the rate of entry and/or exit. MMTC's study will allow policy makers, the
FCC, and advocates for a diverse media to better understand and address the
structural and non-structural impediments that minority and women media
owners face in the current media environment.
*Project: Radio Bilingüe's Coverage of the
May 1st Immigrant Mobilizations: A Qualitative Study of Immigrant Latino
Audiences*
Organization: Radio
Bilingüe<http://www.radiobilingue.org/>
Principal Researcher: Graciela León Orozco, EdD
Description: Very little research has been done
on Spanish-language public radio and its audiences. This study will
document the role of Radio Bilingüe, a Spanish-language public radio
network, in the recent pro-immigrant marches and shed light on immigrant
radio listeners who called in to its talk show, Línea Abierta, on May 1st.
This research will advance knowledge in terms of profiling audiences of
Spanish-language public radio, describing participants of the May 1st
marches that took place across the nation, identify key concerns of these
participants, and explore more in depth the relationship between that
community and the media.
* *
*BACKGROUND:*
The Collaborative Grants project is part of the Necessary Knowledge for a
Democratic Public Sphere <http://www.ssrc.org/programs/media/> (NKDPS)
Program of the Social Science Research Council, working in partnership with
CIMA: Center for International Media Action and the McGannon Center
for Communications Research at Fordham University. The program is funded by
the Media, Arts and Culture program of the Ford Foundation.
The NKDPS program is launching a series of funding opportunities to help
increase the production, use and capacity for research to serve
public-interest advocacy and organizing around media and communications.
These mini-grants for collaborative advocacy- academic partnerships have
been initiated to meet the short-term research needs of advocacy and policy
actors.
Several other funding projects will be launched in the next months,
including a "Research Bounties" project that place prizes on
advocacy-defined research and a larger program to support longer-term
advocacy-academic research partnerships and training.
For more information on the program, see http://www.ssrc.org/programs/media.
For all program-related inquiries, please write to mediahub at ssrc.org
Subscribe to MediaResearchHub-News for program updates, research funding
opportunities, and conference information:
http://listserve.ssrc.org/mailman/listinfo/mediaresearchhub-news
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