Archive for the ‘Media Coverage’ Category
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? [...]
AJC.com Article on YouTube and Public Access TV
As readers of this blog know, I’ve been tracking some of the online narratives surrounding public access television production in an age when YouTube and other video sharing websites have grown in popularity. This week, thanks again to Clippings for PEG Access Television, I found another article at AJC.com particularly troubling in the lack of [...]
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Article
In an article titled “Who needs public access TV?” by Adrian McCoy of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette the author writes
“Public access supporters argue that Web video isn’t really as democratic as it appears. Sure, anyone can do it — anyone with enough money for a video camera, high-speed Internet access and the right software. The truly [...]
More on YouTube v. Public Access TV
From Ken Picard’s article, entitled “Does Public-Access TV Still Matter in the YouTube Age?” in Seven Days, Vermont’s Alternative Weekly:
“[Lauren-Glenn] Davitian is often asked whether public-access television is still relevant in the age of YouTube. Her reply: These are both the best of times, and the worst, for community media advocates.
On the one hand, people [...]
PEG Access TV and Why Local Newspapers Matter
Thanks to Rob McCausland (Director of Information and Organizing Services for the Alliance for Community Media), and his incredibly resourceful Clippings for PEG Access TV, I can subscribe to an RSS feed of daily news on issues related to community television from around the world.
These daily updates have played a large part in the research [...]
Village Voice Interview
I spoke with Mara Altman of the Village Voice today. She’s doing a piece on “public access television and it’s relevancy in the age of YouTube”. She found me through my blog post, “YouTube = Public Access?“. We talked a bit about my graduate thesis project and some of the questions I’m looking for [...]
