New Media, Old Media: Historians and the Media
Thursday, April 8, 2010; 01:00 PM
This half-day workshop will *explore* how historians can work successfully with social media of all kinds to reach a variety of public audiences. It will focus on practical information and skills*,* covering current issues in fair use and copyright law *for* historians, how to work with radio producers, and how to *create podcasts and blogs*. Each of the discussions below will last about an hour. *Participants should feel free to bring laptops for the podcasting/blog session.* _Fee: There is a fee for the workshop_. TBD. Hour 1: Public Media 2.0 for Historians, Center for Social Media, American University Jessica Clark, Center for Social Media on Social Media Strategies for Historians Pat Aufderheide, Director, Center for Social Media, on Fair Use and Copyright Issues Hour 2: Breaking into Public Radio: BackStory as a Case Study Brian Balogh, The University of Virginia, and Tony Field, Producer, BackStory Hour 3: Using Digital Media to Reach Your Audience: Podcasting *and Blogging*, Jeremy Boggs, Center for History and New Media
Jessica Clark, Center for Social Media, American University
Pat Aufderheide, Center for Social Media, American University
Brian Balogh, University of Virginia and the Miller Center of Pu
Tony Field, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Jeremy Boggs, Center for History and New Media, George Mason Uni