Archive for the ‘Social Networks’ 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” [...]
PEG in a Shifting Media Landscape: Revisited
I recently revisited the audio from the Alliance for Community Media 2006 conference panel, “PEG in a Shifting Media Landscape,” featuring Felicia Sullivan (moderator), Hans Klein (Georgia Tech), Susie Lindsay (Former Berkman Center for Internet and Society Fellow), Michael Eisenmenger (Manhattan Neighborhood Network) and Fred Johnson (Community Media & Technology Program, UMass Boston).
Listen to the [...]
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 [...]
Why Net Neutrality Matters for PEG Access TV
At last week’s FCC hearing at Harvard Law School, the issue of network neutrality once again took center stage. As the Internet giant Google describes the issue
“Network neutrality is the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet.”
Therefore, proponents of [...]
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 [...]
Connecting Community TV and The Social Web
SuzeMuse is posting a series of stories about the author’s experience growing up and working in community television in Canada. The series was inspired by a post written by Chris Brogan about social media. In response, the author writes, “Hmmm. Sounds to me like Community Television to me. Over the next few blog posts I [...]
Definitions of Community in the Digital Age
From Karen Christensen’s Berkshire Blog:
“But what is community, anyway? A famous article, from 1955, listed 57 definitions – like ketchup. Just what kind of community are we talking about here today?
I usually say that communities are human webs that provide essential feelings of sharing, belonging, and meaning. Tom Bender, a historian at NYU, wrote that [...]
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 [...]
