Rethinking Participation and Access in Public Access Media

In June 2007, after learning about this project Felicia Sullivan recommended that I read Community Media: A Global Introduction by Ellie Rennie. I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve only just begun to realize – sigh – what an amazing resource it truly is. Particularly for students and scholars of old and new media interested in [...]

Doc Searls on DTV and the New Localism

An interesting quote from Doc’s recent post at LinuxJournal, titled “What’s Next for Open Source and Public Media?” “The end of analog terrestrial television will be a big mess and a wake-up call in more ways than we can name. The loss of analog TV’s familiar channels, and in countless cases their signals as well, [...]

SuzeMuse on Community TV and the Web

Thanks to Rob McCausland of the ACM and Clippings for PEG Access Television, I met Sue Murphy this past week. After blogging about her series on community television and the social web, she contacted me to thank me for my post. We exchanged a series of emails learning more about each other’s experiences and thoughts [...]

Public Access Media: The Second Coming of the Social Web?

In searching Radical Software for articles on public access television, I found Ann Arlen’s piece, entitled “Public access: the second coming of television?” from Vol. 1, no. 5 (1972) P. 81-85. In it, the author writes: “Technology is really nothing – a piece of equipment lying around – until somebody picks it up and uses [...]