About

NGO’s, journalists, activists and governmental agencies among others understand that Internet and mobile technologies allow them to spread knowledge in new and innovative ways. Multimedia Web sites, Podcasts, Social Networks and mobile devices are changing the way information is produced and consumed.

Who creates and consumes these relatively new forms of media has radicalized the responsibilities and reach of organizations both large and small, and changed the role of those entering them.

TubesCodeContent is a public, companion Web site to a course taught by Michael Cervieri at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

While the course is designed to give students a hands-on experience creating content for the Web and other delivery platforms, this site is meant to give a wider audience access to — and participation in — our explorations and research on content creation, open source trends, legal frameworks, cultural developments and opportunities in contemporary digital media.

In the upcoming months, Michael and his students will be contributing their research to this site. In doing so, they will help the rest of us understand how the digital ecosystem of Web sites and content actually work, what communications opportunities are available to organizations large and small, what the significance of digital reputation is and how to create and maintain it, and how Internet protocols and languages produce not just a series of Web sites, but a rich, global distribution platform for all matter of content.

The overriding goal is to undertand how to utilize digital media production and distribution to participate in — and affect discourse on — the world’s pressing issues.

TubesCodeContent is created as a participatory community. We hope you will join us. If you’d like to do so, you can register here. TubesCodeContent Members can create, administer and control their own Groups, Blogs and Forums. We just ask that you keep the subject matter on target. In the upcoming weeks we’ll have Facebook and Twitter integration so your movement between communities is not a chore.

Credits

  • TubesCodeContent is running on an installation of WordPress MU (WPMU), an Open Source publishing platform built off of the more traditional WordPress code base.
  • Overlaying WPMU is a plugin called BuddyPress that adds a social networking layer to WPMU. (As close as we can tell, “MU” is a cross between a cow’s “Moo” and a cat’s “Meow.”
  • The site also includes bbPress in order to include its Forums/Message Boards.
  • ScribeLabs has pulled this all together for us and is hosting and maintaining the site. We thank them for their resources.