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The Center for Social Media

The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes strategies to use media as creative tools for public knowledge and action. It focuses on social documentaries for civil society and democracy, and on the public media environment that supports them. The Center is part of the School of Communication at American University.

Clipping Our Own Wings Copyright and Creativity in Communication ResearchApril 1

Communication scholars need access to copyrighted material, need to make unlicensed uses of them in order to do their research, and often—especially within the United States—have the legal right to do so. But all too often they find themselves thwarted.

Public Media 2.0 Field Report: New Muslim Cool: Engaging Stakeholders in the Filmmaking ProcessMarch 15

Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Statement of Fair Use for Media Studies PublishingFebruary 24

Members of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies--film and media studies professors--defined how fair use applies to their research practices. This document concerns fair use in quotation for illustration or proof of argument or to stimulate discussion, whether in text, multimedia, or as media bundled with text. More information is available at the SCMS website

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Statement on Fair Use for Teaching Film and Media EducatorsFebruary 24

Members of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies--film and media studies professors--defined how fair use applies to their teaching practices. This document concerns fair use in classroom situations, in broadcast, repurposing within new works, and in online distance education. More information is available at the SCMS website.

Impact Outside of the Box: Assessing How Digital Video Can Engage and Influence PublicsJanuary 27