Archive for the ‘Free and Open Source Software’ Category
Migrating to a Content Management System
Jason Daniels from Medfield Community Cable Access posted notes from the Alliance for Community Media Northeast Region Conference on “Migrating to a CMS.”
“The goal of this session is to get an Access center in the right frame of mind to begin the process of moving their website from a static html site to a dynamic [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Online Information Sharing as Physical Community Building
Drupal content management system (CMS) is an open-source tool that is being used by community media workers to build their access center’s websites (see MNN, Medfield.tv, CCTV and others). Drupal gives users the ability to upload audio, video and images in an interactive environment that extends the physical space of community media to online [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
Community Media 2.0 Toolkit #1
A big part of my thesis project includes researching how community media (PEG access TV) centers are educating their producers, or vice versa, about how to use new media tools for Internet publishing and distribution (using blogs, podcasts, wikis, etc.). So as we go along here I will be pulling together (aggregating) a list of [...]
Connecting F/OSS and PEG Access TV
In the Spring Issue of Community Media Review, Felicia Sullivan writes
“These concepts of freedom, transparency, accessibility, creativity, inclusion and community should sound familiar to those of us working in community media. They are the foundations of much of the work in which we are engaged. Therefore, we owe it to ourselves and to our communities [...]
