A learning community aimed at understanding how to move beyond current short-term and unstable economic models by find ways to redefine economic and social relations that work better for more people.
Students will participate in gathering multimedia resources, learning to think synthetically about the many dimensions of personal life quality and the politics and economics that affect them. We will also look at what real prosperity means for people living in different societies and cultures. The goal is to create a communication system linking universities and civil society organizations in different nations. Instructors, researchers and students from different disciplines will develop new knowledge and find ways to distribute it to general publics, press, and policy makers at local, national, and global levels.
Bottom line: Develop a dual pronged academic program that explores both the political and public value discourse sides, aimed at promoting public awareness and political capacity. Create student and civil society ambassadors for these ideas: people who will carry persuasive visions into different walks of life and advocate for them in different organizational settings.
Lance Bennett
Professor of Political Science and
Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
http://www.com.washington.edu/bennett/
Director, Center for Communication & Civic Engagement
www.engagedcitizen.org
This is a very multi-disciplinary research project. You may want to divide the resources amongsth yourselves to make sure that you are not duplicating efforts. Consider:
You may want to use Refworks to maintain your references One benefit to Refworks is that we can export source (it will generate reference lists for us).
RefWorks is a web-based personal citation database and bibliography creator that allows you to import, store, and share your research citations and automatically format your bibliographies into whatever style you need (APA, MLA, Chicago, and many more).
Have questions or need research help? Please contact Jessica Albano, the communication research librarian, via email at jalbano@uw.edu
We can work: