Personal Media / Public Good – 5/1/10 – Save the Date!

This semester in the New Media Institute, we are investigating how personal media (mobile phones, social media, and games) can contribute to public good. Specifically, our projects are going to look at how these personal media platforms can be used to encourage health behaviors. On Saturday, 5/1/10, the Health and Medical Journalism Program (http://www.grady.uga.edu/KnightHealth/), the Center for Health and Risk Communication (http://southerncenter.uga.edu/uga/ugacenter.htm), and the New Media Institute are teaming up to host a conference exploring the ways that new digital media tools can help make communities stronger. It will be a day of panels, discussion and planning. Plus we will be debuting all the NMI projects. So mark your calendar. I will be sending you more information as we finalize plans.