This video is a project for a graduate course I am taking at Emerson College this semester titled “Studies in Digital Media & Culture.” The assignment was to create a two-minute video based on the main concepts from our recent critical paper assignment. My paper, “PEG Access Internet as Alternative Networked Public Sphere”, attempts to build on concepts from Jurgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser, Yochai Benkler and others, with the purpose of exploring the role of PEG Access TV in an networked society.
For my thesis, over the next year, I hope to argue that a PEG Access Internet model provides a unique portal (unlike other online spaces) that can provide access to public, educational, and government information about issues taking place in local communities.
I hope that this blog will provide an opportunity to further share and explore these issues. And I welcome comments from those of you who know much more than I do about what a PEG Access TV model might look like on the Internet of the future.
I think taking the conversation and contextualizing in the likes of Habermas makes the discussion of what the future of Public Acccess could be a lot more salient in the digital age. I have been working on a number of graphics that will help to visually depict this ‘electronic greenspace’. I hope to illuminate how this space is sort of ‘fenced off’ from commercial interests by regulation and advocacy much in the same way that in the real world a national park is protected from commercial exploitation. Great food for thought. Jason Daniels.
Thanks, Jason. Will you be sharing your graphics somewhere online where we could link to?
i hope to be able to discuss a more complex and engaging image with you, but here is my start.
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=39603114&size=l