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<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="5" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt">Announcing the Media Research Hub</span></font><font size="5" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt"><a href="http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/" title="http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/"><b><font color="black" title="http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/"><span title="http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/"><span style="color:windowtext; font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none">http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org</span></span></font></b></a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">The Media Research Hub is a new online resource for researchers, advocates, practitioners, and policymakers working for a more democratic and participatory public sphere. It is a portal to several different services for the media and communications research and advocacy communities:</span></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold">Collaborative Grants</span></font></b> support partnerships between academic researchers and advocates. Grants are awarded through open competitions, held several times per year. The Collaborative grants portal can be used to apply for SSRC grants or as a brokering service to bring together researchers and research needs.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold">The Data Consortium for Media and Communications Policy</span></font></b> works for the principle that public policy should be made with publicly-available data—a condition mostly absent from contemporary media and communications policymaking. The Data Consortium site contains a community-editable database of dataset<font color="navy"><span style="color:navy">s</span></font>, designed to illuminate this confusing and fragmented field of resources.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold">The Resource Database</span></font></b> is a community-editable field-mapping tool for linking people, institutions, research materials, networks, and projects—and the relationships between them. You may already be in it! Users can maintain their own profiles, create or add to others, and make, save, and export lists of resources for your own use. The system works like a highly structured wiki.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold">News</span></font></b>, <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Events</span></b>, and <b><span style="font-weight: bold">Opportunities</span></b> for the media and communications field.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt">Creating an account gives you power to add to the site. We encourage you to do so, and make this a rich and accurate resource for the field. </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt">To submit event listings or report a problem, contact <a href="mailto:mediahub@ssrc.org">mediahub@ssrc.org</a> .</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt">The Media Research Hub is part of Social Science Research Council’s <a href="http://www.ssrc.org/programs/media" title="http://www.ssrc.org/programs/media"><i><span style="font-style:italic">Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere</span></i></a> program, which works to ensure that debates about communications technologies and the media are shaped by high-quality research and a rich understanding of the public interest.</span></font><br></p></div> </body></html>