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Community Media 2.0: It’s Still About Us and Our Physical Communities

My co-workers and I had a meeting today to discuss plans for our new website. Two important things caught my attention in thinking about how to frame the work we’re doing through our visual and semantic design.
First, visual design. The thing that sets us (community media centers) apart in a REALLY important way [...]

YouTube AND Public Access Television

On my way into work this morning, I noticed an article in the Boston Metro entitled, “Pol eye YouTube for city life.” In it, Greg St. Martin talks about how Boston City Councilor, Rob Consalvo is interested in using YouTube to “broadcast” PSA’s to reach younger audiences. Martin adds,
“Consalvo said the city [...]

Thesis Submitted and The Work Ahead

I submitted my thesis to the Department of Graduate Studies at Emerson College this afternoon. It’s entitled “Community Media in Transition: Public Access Television in the Age of YouTube.”
I appreciated the feedback I received from my committee during my defense. They recommended that I spend a bit more time on the paper before [...]

“Community Media in a Prosumer Era”

3CMedia, the Journal for Community, Citizen’s and Third Sector Media and Communication published an excellent article, entitled “Community Media in a Prosumer Era,” by Community Communication Scholar Ellie Rennie (author of Community Media: A Global Introduction) in their December 2007 issue.
In her article, Rennie discusses the impacts of convergent media on traditional forms of “broadcast-era” [...]

Rethinking Participation and Access in Public Access Media

In June 2007, after learning about this project Felicia Sullivan recommended that I read Community Media: A Global Introduction by Ellie Rennie. I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve only just begun to realize – sigh – what an amazing resource it truly is. Particularly for students and scholars of old and new media interested in [...]

SuzeMuse on Community TV and the Web

Thanks to Rob McCausland of the ACM and Clippings for PEG Access Television, I met Sue Murphy this past week. After blogging about her series on community television and the social web, she contacted me to thank me for my post. We exchanged a series of emails learning more about each other’s experiences and [...]

Public Access Media: The Second Coming of the Social Web?

In searching Radical Software for articles on public access television, I found Ann Arlen’s piece, entitled “Public access: the second coming of television?” from Vol. 1, no. 5 (1972) P. 81-85. In it, the author writes:
“Technology is really nothing – a piece of equipment lying around – until somebody picks it up and uses [...]

Participatory Media Studies and PEG Access TV

I’m starting to believe – but I hope it’s not true – that the lack of widespread research in Public, Educational and Government (PEG) Access Television studies may have profound consequences for media scholars seeking to understand participatory culture.
Not only is there a huge misunderstanding about the differences between public access television and video sharing [...]

Research Clippings

Governing.com, “The Resource for States and Localities” published an article this week, entitled “Unscripted Ending” written by Josh Goodman. It caught my eye for a number of reasons. One for this Related Links caption (above). And another for the article’s interesting conclusion:
“Can Internet video match public TV as a venue for independent voices? [...]

Looking to Barthes for Context and Meaning

Last week, my thesis adviser recommended that I consider cultural studies as an analytic framework for helping me to articulate some of my thoughts on this project. More specifically, it was recommended that I refer back to Roland Barthes and his work in Mythologies. In re-reading “Myth Today,” Barthes begins by explaining that “since [...]