Archive for March, 2008
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 controversial [...]
About This Blog and Its Transparency
I just returned from a lively debate this evening during one of my classes at Emerson College on the controversial issue of Wikipedia and its credibility. Instead of going into details, I thought I’d take a minute to share my views on some of the ideas found here on this blog. The purpose, I [...]
Why Net Neutrality Matters for PEG Access TV
At last week’s FCC hearing at Harvard Law School, the issue of network neutrality once again took center stage. As the Internet giant Google describes the issue
“Network neutrality is the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet.”
Therefore, proponents of [...]
