Dear CITASA members: Hopefully most of you know about the SSRC's 'Necessary Knowledge for a Democratic Public Sphere' program: http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org <http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/> I wanted to signal an approaching deadline for 3 'research bounties.' Bounties are prize-money placed on research questions posed by media advocacy groups. Researchers are encouraged to respond and develop the call into a research project in collaboration with the proposing group. Make the project happen and collect the bounty. The deadline for expressing interest in a bounty is the end of September-with another couple weeks available for the initial project design. The three bounties are: A Strategy, Acquisition, and Revenue Model of Evangelical Radio Networks <http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants/default-research-bounties/a-str ategy-acquisition-and-revenue-model-of-evangelical-radio-networks> $7500 Measuring Ethnic Media's Online Capacity <http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants/default-research-bounties/ethni c-media2019s-online-capacity> $7500 Are HD radio stations serving the public interest? <http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants/default-research-bounties/are-h d-radio-stations-serving-the-public-interest> $5000 http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants These nicely combine (1) interesting research problems with (2) clear public-interest applications. If one of these lines up with your research interests please give it some thought. And feel free to forward this announcement to interested parties. Also of note: some-maybe most-of you have 'profiles' in the Resource Database, our attempt to create a community-editable map the field of media and communications. The model here splits the difference between a wiki and social profiling site. Anyone can add anything but you can also opt to 'own' your core profile. The dataset is rich enough at this point to be quite interesting, but it is just a start. We'd welcome further contributions and especially more systematic approaches to building out, e.g., reading lists, syllabi, mini-maps of policy issues and sub-fields, and so on. If you have students or a class that would be game, let me know. Best, Joe Karaganis karaganis@ssrc.org