PEG Access Internet

February 28th, 2007 by Colin Rhinesmith

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.

This video was originally shared on blip.tv by cmediachange with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.