About the Center for Emerging Media

The Center for Emerging Media (CEM) was founded in 2000 as a 501(c)(3) private non-profit corporation. The mission of CEM is to employ all forms of media – including radio, video, and Internet – to produce unique programs addressing issues that affect our world.

CEM is dedicated to introducing and giving airtime to voices that would otherwise go unheard, particularly the voices and stories of the disenfranchised and dispossessed. In addition to the usual scholars and intellectuals, listeners will hear the individuals directly affected by the issues presented. From students to prostitutes to Vietnam veterans, individuals who have not often been given the opportunity to speak will be granted a platform.

CEM’s strategy is to use public radio as its base and primary medium but to integrate that work with video, and in particular the visual interactive power of the Internet. The Internet – through its enhanced capacity, archival depth, and links from major media and organizational sites – will allow CEM’s programs to reach a much wider audience.

Contributors to CEM’s past and current projects include the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Open Society Institute, Fund for Change, Stony Run Friends Meeting, and a number of individual donors.