Archive for October, 2007
Denver Open Media: Opening Access DVD
I finally watched my DVD copy of “Opening Access” (photo above) produced by Denver Open Media. It’s an excellent overview of the possibilities that the Internet and user-driven media technologies provide towards revolutionizing Public Access TV. The DVD begins by situating Public Access TV in opposition to corporate television and other commercial media. It [...]
Kari Peterson and Scott Alumbaugh on PEGSpace
QuickTime Video
The Alliance for Community Media’s 2006 Boston conference website continues to be an excellent resource for this project. Thanks to Ryanne and Jay’s interviews from the conference, there a number of videos available for download in learning more about this intersection of cable access TV and the web.
The video above, features a short [...]
Cool New Blog Header Image
Jason Daniels of Medfield.tv generously contributed the header image above for this blog. My feelings about this WordPress theme have been lukewarm since I installed it. So, now I’m really inspired to find a new theme for this blog. Thanks, Jason!
The Significance of Place for Public Access Media
I’m beginning to see the light. The following is a synopsis of my proposed research (a working draft), thus far:
The rise in widespread adoption of global social-networking software has created challenges to previously established forms of locally focused communication. For over thirty years, cable access television in the U.S., a medium with a [...]
The Process of Community Television
In working to build a framework for this study, I found John W. Higgins article “Community Television and the Vision of Media Literacy, Social Action and Empowerment” (PDF download), published in the Fall 1999 issue of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, particularly helpful for a number of reasons which I hope to highlight [...]
“The Vision of Open Media”
From Denver Open Media:
“In recent years, the user-automated business model has proven to enable small organizations to have an impact rivaling that of any large corporation. It is how Wikipedia and its 5 employees surpassed Encarta and its staff of 2,000+. Its how EBay is able to compete with Target, why use of [...]
On “The Age of Citizen Programming”
In a recent blog post (via Clippings for PEG Access Television), Alan Moore highlights an article on “Citizen-produced” programs on cable access TV in Chofu, Tokyo. Because, as he writes, “it echoed with the theory that people embrace what they create.”
The post is interesting to me because of the connection Moore makes between examples of [...]
Exploring the Digital Culture within PEG Access Television
I wrote an essay, titled “Community Media in Transition: Exploring the Digital Culture within PEG Access Television.” It is an overview of my research and methods used for this project to date. My hope is that it will serve to help focus my work moving forward.
From the introduction:
In August 2006, following the Alliance for Community [...]
Networked/Local Social Media
I recently discovered these three geographically-focused UK websites (above) through my thesis adviser’s del.icio.us feed. They are UpMyStreet, AreYouLocal, and MyNeighborhoods. They were interesting to me because of their location-based orientation within a global communications medium (the web), combined with their use of social software.
I was trying to imagine a version of this site where [...]
