Aspen Institute Publications
Aspen Institute publications are listed below. Many are available for purchase through Google Checkout, a secure system for handling credit card transaction online. For assistance with ordering publications, please contact our Publications office by email or by phone at (410) 820.5433. Please note: Orders are shipped two times a week from our warehouse in Queenstown, MD, on the Eastern Shore.
Dead Sea Scrolling
Dead Sea Scrolling, the report of the 2008 Arab-US Media Forum, explores the impact of new media in spanning the cultural and informational divides between the Arab and American worlds. Leading Arab and American journalists and media entrepreneurs discuss the budding transparency and openness enabled by new media and confront the harmful stereotyping in which both worlds so readily engage.
Civic Engagement on the Move
Civic Engagement on the Move: How mobile media can serve the public good looks at how leading edge practitioners are using mobile media to engage citizens to solve problems, bridge differences and strengthen community. This report details the hallmarks of successful mobile campaigns around civic engagement and provides case studies of several successful and emerging initiatives, including several resulting from the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Mobile Media and Civic Engagement.
Media and Values: Issues of Content, Community and Intellectual Property
Media and Values: Issues of Content, Community and Intellectual Property, the report of the 2007 Aspen Institute Forum on Communications and Society (FOCAS), frames the debates surrounding such topics as offensive, harmful or missing content; fair use, new business models and international approaches to intellectual property; and local media and the future of democracy. The report also offers constructive suggestions for resolving several of the more contentious challenges that have accompanied developments in new media.
A Framework for a National Broadband Policy
Condensing discussions from the 2007 Conference on Communications Policy and the 4th Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Spectrum Policy (AIRS) into a single report, Professor Philip Weiser of the University of Colorado at Boulder offers a series of specific and concrete policy recommendations for expanding access, affordability, and adoption of broadband in the United States.
The Rise Of Collective Intelligence: Decentralized Co-Creation of Value as a New Paradigm of Commerce and Culture
The Rise Of Collective Intelligence: Decentralized Co-Creation of Value as a New Paradigm of Commerce and Culture describes how collective intelligence affects business value creation and passion-based collaborative learning resulting in new user generated business and media models. The report includes an account of "The Cloud" or utility computing.
Framing the Other: Bias or Imbalance?
Framing the Other: Bias or Imbalance?, the report from the Arab-U.S. Media Forum in Dubai and Wye, Maryland, includes insightful essays and commentary by Arab and U.S. Journalists about bias in the media and recommendations towards better, more balanced coverage.
Connect and Catalyze: Can India Leverage ICT for Inclusive and Sustained Growth?
Connect and Catalyze succinctly describes many of India's economic challenges and opportunities and includes suggested implementations of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as a means to sustained economic development.
A Matter of Degree: The Role of Journalists as Activists in Journalism Business and Policy
Explores to what extent should or could journalists be involved in these decisions at the policy levels of government and business.
American Journalism in Transition: A View at the Top
This report is a product of the fifth annual Aspen Institute Conference on Journalism and Society.
