BlogExploring 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 Media Conference, “Connecting Communities” at Boston’s Park Plaza Hotel, I launched a personal research blog, titled “Community Media in Transition: PEG Access TV and the Internet” to continue the conversation online. As I wrote about the project, I hoped “to explore the role of technology, public policy, and the Internet and its relationship to public, educational, and government access television.” Much to my surprise, I soon found myself at an exciting intersection of two worlds colliding without much of a roadmap to navigate the changes ahead. Through my professional and volunteer lives I realized I was in a unique position to help share the stories of those facing this intersection of cable access television and a complex new medium, called the social web.
This essay is about my process and discovery during this time. It is a document of the steps I have taken, up to this point, to investigate a thirty-year old practice by community media activists now facing a world uprooted by technology, politics and a global market economy. In it, I will present an overview of (1) the methods used, (2) the community observed, (3) the technologies being implemented, (4) the persistent themes and challenges, and (5) the potential paths of study moving forward.
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