Media Research

The New Media Foundation believes media can help to change our world for the better. The New Media Research studies how role models, human evolution and virtues & values have been reflected in entertainment over the last 75 years. Based on this leading research, we are creating new, alternative forms of entertainment that incorporate positive role models into new media that will help to inspire and change our world for the better.

We are researching "how" to integrate these positive educational, inspirational and scientific principals into media. Specifically, the New Media Committee collects information diverse ideas, principals, teachings from positive books, articles, lectures, life stories and other sources to develop into media projects. In addition we will study how these affirmative projects and other positive media effect viewers.

The Committee also coordinates symposiums where educational, personal development and scientific leaders from around the world can gather to share ideas and discuss ways to integrate these ideas into media. The Research Committee organizes written summaries of the information gathered. Finally, the Committee reviews and recommends projects to the Development Committee.

Some of the questions the New Media Committee evaluates a project by are:  

• What does the project intend to do?
• Why is the work important?
• What are the key positive role model principals?
• Why should the foundation support the project?
• What key leaders are attached to the project or will support the project?
• What other projects have already been done of this kind?
• How can we integrate the ideas or principals and make the media entertaining?

For additional information about the policies and procedures of the New Media Committee, please request our Strategic Plan.