New Media & Civic Engagement

The Alhambra project is a collaboration between Metamorphosis and the USC Annenberg Journalism School. The project looks at the potential of new media to promote civic engagement and intergroup interactions. The product of it all – Alhambra Source – is a community news website serving a diverse city in LA County.

The quick visual overview of the project that Nancy Chen and I put together just got the 1st place award in the Social Science category of the GPSS poster competition. Apart from being a nice surprise, this gives us another occasion to suggest that you check out this great research project lead by Sandra Ball-Rokeach and Michael Parks – and the news website managed by Daniela Gerson.