Archive for the ‘Community Informatics’ Category
Thesis: Phase II
It’s a new year and my last semester, and another chapter (not quite literally . . . yet) begins for this project.
Lots has changed since my initial explorations began in earnest last semester. Most notably, I began to shift my thinking from broadcast cable access television and Internet video distribution to the role of the [...]
Mobile Community Media Centers
Over at the The University of Michigan School of Information’s CIC blog (via Clippings for PEG Access Television), there’s an idea posted about how to revitalize school media centers that have been shut down in “communities that lack the funding.”
“Our goal would not be to replace school media centers or existing community centers. However, our [...]
November Brain Dump
“CMT Mind Map” via Flickr (CC license)
Locating Community Media within the Space of Flows
Drawing from community informatics literature, I found Slack and Williams, “The dialectics of place and space: On community in the “Information Age’” (2000) of particular interest because of its focus on the role of physical place within online networks. The article highlights a study of The Craigmillar Community Information Service, which the McDonald and Denning [...]
