digital democracy at Brave New Filmshttp://bravenewfilms.org/topics/digital-democracy2009-01-09T02:18:18ZDigital Democracyhttp://bravenewfilms.org/blog/39572-digital-democracy2009-01-09T02:18:18Zatomburke
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<p>http://www.democraticmedia.org</p>
<p>Jeff Chester, Executive Director of the Center for Digital Democracy, talks about his new book:
<br />Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy at the National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR) in January, 2007.</p>
<p>http://freepress.net/conference/=full_schedule07</p>
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Big-Citizen.com Intro - Find Presidential Flip-Floppers!http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/27643-big-citizen-com-intro-find-presidential-flip-floppers2009-01-09T00:47:17ZBigCitizen
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<p>Big Citizen™ is a revolutionary system created to allow every American to have a voice in our political process. Fiercely non-partisan, Big Citizen is the only web application where users have easy access to a factual view of the political past and present, allowing them to cut through the spin posited by elected officials, their campaigns and the special interest groups funding them. By building a new interface on democracy, Big Citizen has created a platform that makes the issues accessible, meaningful and relevant to every American in an easy and engaging way. Big Citizen's mission is to evoke change in the democratic process by empowering the individual and shifting the balance of power in American politics away from special interest groups and back into the hands of the people. It is the first ever web application that allows users to get the facts and stay current with breaking news from the media, government and public sources, using video, articles, widgets and much more. Big Citizen places the highest premium on producing an accurate, incorruptible and unbiased tool for the American people to obtain information and to effect real change in the political process. In the upcoming months, Big Citizen will continue to deploy a series of unprecedented technological innovations to connect citizens with their democracy and bring the process into the 21st century.</p>
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Jeff Chester on big media conglomerateshttp://bravenewfilms.org/blog/82-jeff-chester-on-big-media-conglomerates2008-10-20T09:30:56Zjgilliam
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<p>Clip from the film "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism". Executive Director Digital Democracy Jeff Chester discusess big media conglomerates and how they dominate debate.</p>
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