Thesis Final Countdown

Posting has been light here over the past month as I’m working to finish up my thesis. I hope to have a final draft completed for my committee to review by early April. In the meantime, please visit the websites and blogs listed in my links section (right hand column) for updates from folks who [...]

Networked Community Communication Model

Seungahn Nah’s 2003 paper, “Bridging Offline and Online Community: Toward A Networked Community Communication Model” (see Works Cited) the author surveys literature on community studies from the Chicago School of sociology to social network analysis. He develops a holistic approach to community studies across both online and offline spaces. The author weaves together a range [...]

PEGspace at Drupalcon 2008

For those interested in learning more about the intersection of Public Access Television and free and open source software, Jason Daniels (medfield.tv) forwarded along a link to audio & meeting minutes from a gathering of public broadcasting and public access media folks during the recent Drupal conference held in Boston, this year. Here’s a bit [...]

Public Access Video on FCC Hearing

Somerville Community Access Television Executive Director Wendy Blom produced this short video (12 min 11 sec) above from the February 25 FCC hearing on Broadband Network Management Practices at the Harvard Law School. The video, found online at SCAT’s Vlog!, includes some of the voices not heard by the FCC during the hearing on the [...]