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A public relations/advertising outfit called "Public Media" (found by googling "public media" oddly enough...); from their welcome screen: "PUBLIC MEDIA is all about the client. Our production division, PUBLIC MEDIA and our advertising division, MAKE WAVES, create success for our clients by using new and traditional advertising, marketing, design and production techniques in creative and cost effective ways."

Not much on this site yet, but I found it by googling "public media". This is most of the text on the site: "The new Public Media Service will be based in Los Angeles and will involve the testing and development of a new radio and multimedia service directed to an ethnically diverse and underserved 25-40 year-old demographic and, initially, will target the fastest-growing population group in the region, Latinos."

On-line newspapers, information agency, blogs and personal websites, thematic media are monitored to highlight the pattern of perceptions on the urban space. This monitoring activity leads to the creation of an atlas that will produce - in real-time - different maps based on news sources, themes, and time. The atlas allows users to understand the urban space as a function of media attention and biases and social and cultural diversity of the city itself. 

Telovation provides no-nonsense reporting on everything new, cool, and interesting in the world of technology, gadgets, and innovation. Telovation.com is a web news magazine that provides daily reports on the latest achievements in the world of technology, art, design, innovation, and interesting people and things from around the world.

Just came across this really interesting article on the idea of using new media as a crowd-sourcing tool and how (as the author argues) it takes away from face-to-face connections and the value of the public sphere. While I do not necessarily agree with things he is saying, I think this ties in a lot to what we talked about last class.

Most museums rely on donations for their collections, but this new museum takes a radical social media-inspired approach.

Visuals, layers of information, all about us and them.