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<div class=Section1><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Possibly of interest….<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>J<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>SSRC Necessary Knowledge Program News<o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>We’ve
posted four new essays on <a href="http://www.ssrc.org/essays/mcrm/">“Making
Communication Research Matter”</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<pre><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><a
href="http://www.ssrc.org/essays/mcrm/?p=28">Kate Coyer: <i>Community Media: Scholarship, Policy Advocacy, and Power Tools</i></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";
color:black'>“We need be mindful of the role and value of critical theory
and inquiry. The last decade has produced substantive scholarship that
well-places alternative and community media on the media studies landscape as
well as in the media policy environment. The defensive positioning that
our work matters is thing of the past.”</span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<pre><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><a
href="http://www.ssrc.org/essays/mcrm/?p=27">Marianne Franklin: <i>What if? Confessions of a Sceptical Activist</i></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>“Recent history is full of lessons about how policy-makers make a difference in the halls of political – national and international – power. For activists or researchers who set out on the institutional-change route, this decision to take a ‘reformist’ approach then has to eschew the public gaze, headline news of the day. It also asks for time, energy and commitment and a devotion to the long term. It also means leaving behind cherished notions of independent thought, a degree of autonomy, and that much aligned space away from it all that enables ‘critical thought’ and ‘rigorous research’ to take place.”</span><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><a
href="http://www.ssrc.org/essays/mcrm/?p=26">Phillip M. Napoli: <i>Audience Evolution and the Resuscitation of “Mass Communication”</i></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>“Researchers looking at a wide range of issues related to the production, distribution, and consumption of user-generated content are conducting research that can potentially enhance our understanding of the contemporary dynamics of access to audiences, and can thereby feed into informing the ongoing transition to communications policy frameworks that extend far beyond the traditional institutional communicators -- and that instead account for the masses as mass communicators as well.”<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></pre><pre><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><a
href="http://www.ssrc.org/essays/mcrm/?p=25">Danilo Yanich:<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-weight:normal'> </span><i>Doing Policy Research: Camelot or Oz?</i></a></span></b><span
style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>“Done well, policy research accomplishes the task of speaking truth to power even if power is reluctant to hear it. Done well, policy research is candid, scientifically sound and fearless in its recommendations. Done well, policy research is a fundamental and critical guide to public action. Done poorly, policy research is an abomination that muddies the policy area and makes claim to expertise that it does not possess. Done poorly, it creates the cover that power needs to escape the truth.”</span><b><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>*
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<pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>We have also published a wrap up of our ‘Collaborative Grants’ cycle…<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Georgia","serif";color:windowtext'><a
href="http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants/default-research-bounties/grants/research-strategies"
title="blocked::http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants/default-research-bounties/grants/research-strategies">Research
Strategies</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>:
Inclusion, Localism, Better Data, Field Analysis. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Georgia","serif";color:windowtext'><a
href="http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants/default-research-bounties/grants/research-outcomes-and-uses"
title="blocked::http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants/default-research-bounties/grants/research-outcomes-and-uses">Research
Outcomes</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>:
Policy and Organizing Impact, Academic Change <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Georgia","serif";color:windowtext'><a
href="http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants/default-research-bounties/grants/building-a-culture-of-collaboration"
title="blocked::http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants/default-research-bounties/grants/building-a-culture-of-collaboration">Building
a Culture of Collaboration</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>: Who Gets Involved? What is Collaboration?
<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Georgia","serif";color:windowtext'><a
href="http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants/default-research-bounties/grants/funded-projects"
title="blocked::http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants/default-research-bounties/grants/funded-projects">Chronological
List of the Grants</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Georgia","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:
auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Georgia","serif";color:windowtext'><a
href="http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants/default-research-bounties/grants/community-feedback"
title="blocked::http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants/default-research-bounties/grants/community-feedback">Community
Feedback</a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>
<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>*
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<pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>As always, <a
href="mailto:mediahub@ssrc.org"
title="blocked::mailto:mediahub@ssrc.org mailto:mediahub@ssrc.org blocked::mailto:mediahub@ssrc.org mailto:mediahub@ssrc.org"><span
style='color:windowtext'>mediahub@ssrc.org</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>For other
up-to-date news and events, please see <a
href="http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news"
title="blocked::http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news blocked::http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news"><span
style='color:windowtext'>http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/news</span></a>
and <a href="http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/events"
title="blocked::http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/events http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/events blocked::http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/events"><span
style='color:windowtext'>http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/events</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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