Archive for the ‘Literature Review’ Category
“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” [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Online Potential for Group Formation in PEG TV
In New York Law School Professor Beth Noveck’s article, “Democracy–The Video Game: Virtual Worlds and Collective Action,” from The State of Play: Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds, she talks about the promise of virtual worlds, like Second Life, in fostering new forms of group participation in democratic practice. She explains that while the “First-Generation [...]
From Person-to-Place in Public Access Media
In Barry Wellman’s 2001 article, “Physical Place and Cyberplace: The Rise of Personalized Networking” in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, he writes that growth in online communication has led to a shift in societal interaction away from place-based communication to “person-to-person connectivity” (238). As a result, “Communities are far-flung, loosely-bounded, sparsely-knit and [...]
The Community of Practice in Public Access TV
I just found another great resource through Eric Gordon’s del.icio.us feed. He recently bookmarked an online article, entitled “Communities of Practice: a brief introduction” by Etienne Wenger, author of “Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity.” The article is particularly useful because it describes communities in a way that’s very descriptive of communities in public [...]
The Process of Community Television
In working to build a framework for this study, I found John W. Higgins article “Community Television and the Vision of Media Literacy, Social Action and Empowerment” (PDF download), published in the Fall 1999 issue of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, particularly helpful for a number of reasons which I hope to highlight [...]
