Joined the Society for New Communications Research

Yesterday I had coffee with Jennifer McClure, founder and executive director of the Society for New Communications Research, along with Steven King from the Institute for the Future. The Society's blogzine is here.

Their vision is: "To be the leading think tank for the advanced study of new communications tools, technologies and emerging modes of communication, i.e. blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts, collaborative tools and the growing phenomena of participatory communications and their effect on traditional media, marketing, public relations and advertising, as well as their broader impact on business, politics, entertainment, culture, education, religion and society."

More later, but suffice to say that I accepted a position as honorary fellow and will speak on a panel on citizens media at the Society's first conference on March 1-3 in Palo Alto.