Jessica Clark - In These Times

Jessica Clark is a writer, editor and researcher, with more than 15 years of experience spanning commercial, educational, independent and public media production. Currently she is the Research Director for American University’s Center for Social Media. She also writes a monthly column for PBS’ MediaShift on new directions in public media. She is the author, with Tracy Van Slyke, of Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media (2010, New Press).

A journalist and frequent media commentator, Clark is the former executive editor of In These Times, where she also served as the managing editor, associate publisher and assistant publisher. Her freelance articles have appeared in in such outlets as the San Francisco Chronicle, the American Prospect online, The Ottawa Citizen and South Africa’s Wireless. As Research Director for American University’s Center for Social Media, she directs the Future of Public Media project, conducts and commisions research,such as the influential 2009 report Public Media 2.0: Dynamic, Engaged Publics, and organizes events such as the Beyond Broadcast conference. She holds an MA in Social Sciences and a BA in English from the University of Chicago.

The New Cartographers

What does it mean to map everything all the time?

iPower to the People

The perils and promise of point-and-click politics

Blogs Up, Hacks Down

The appearance of seven Democratic presidential contenders at the YearlyKos convention demonstrated that the Kossacks and fellow A-listers--along with what the Liberal Blog Advertising Network calls their 3 million daily readers--are now ensconced as political players

Chasing the Green Pound in London

Forget "I am not a plastic bag" campaign, Spitalfield's Market is where to find London's genuine eco-friendly fashion

Boomsday: Bankrupt Satire

Bisexual Healing

The Skinny on Thin

Thin, a movie filmed at the Renfrew Center, follows four women in their battle with eating disorders.

Virginity or Death!: A Conversation With Katha Pollitt

YouTube in MeWorld

According to Anthropologist Thomas de Zengotita, Websites like MySpace and YouTube encourage socializing and self adolation.

I’ll show you hormonal…

In Politics, Comedy is Central

Comedy is a rising medium for political satire and critique.

Who needs Tivo? LinkTV coverage of YearlyKos

Live Blogging from Take Back America

Help us Mark Mission Unaccomplished Day

Calling all citizens

pick up that pen, grumpy…

Dear Postindustrial Capitalism

Donna Brazile: Embrace Feingold’s censure proposal

lawyers to the extreme

Dancing as fast as I can

key quotes from the videotape

Video proves that Bush knew Katrina risks

Protect online organizing: protest AOL e-mail tax

Politics: Who cares?

Attack of the academics!

Movements vs. campaigns

freakin’ assholes!

“The truth is permanent, and everything else falls by the wayside”

Here’s a theory: leave the scientists alone

MYOB, sez America

filibuster-o-rama

An MLK day thought from our circ director…

The Christians are creeping me out once again

Why I’m moving to Norway

A heck of a job

in case you were wondering…

For the discerning holiday shopper

ripped from the headlines

She-said/She-said

Happy Thanksgiving—now spit out that bird!

a light slowly dawns

Get thee behind me, God

Fun with semantics

Reach out and touch someone

The first rule of FX…

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