Unfortunately, I was sick this past weekend and couldn’t make it to our Boston Action Tank workshop, “Strategies for Shaping the Media/Tech Future: Policy, Funding & Organizing,” at the Grassroots Use of Technology conference in Lowell, MA.  However, I am looking forward to presenting at the Alliance for Community Media conference in D.C. next week with Ivettza Sanchez of Manhattan Neighborhood Network.

Ivettza and I are running the “Training the Trainers: Vlogging 101″ workshop on Thursday, July 10 from 1:30-3:00PM. Here’s the description from the conference brochure:

“Vlogging (AKA Video Blogging) is a short form of video strictly created to upload to the Internet. This workshop will equip you with the tools and materials you’ll need to teach videoblogging back at your CMC. It will also provide you with tips on how to help your producers navigate the myriad of ways to get their videos watched on the web from videoblogs to wikipedia, to social networking sites.”

If you’re coming to the conference next week, I look forward to seeing you there.

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Back in March, I spoke with Felicia M. Sullivan, Executive Director of Organizers’ Collaborative and former Director of Community Programming at Lowell Telecommunications Corporation about a number of issues related to PEG access TV and the Internet.

This short video features an excerpt from our conversation about the early use of networked technology in public access Television.

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Back in March, I spoke with Felicia M. Sullivan, Executive Director of Organizers’ Collaborative and former Director of Community Programming at Lowell Telecommunications Corporation about a number of issues related to PEG access TV and the Internet.

This short video features an excerpt from our conversation with Felicia’s response to the question, does “YouTube = Public Access TV?”.

This video was originally shared on blip.tv by cmediachange with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

With regards to archiving local community stories in PEG access TV, Jason’s comments made me think about the short video I shot on my digital camera of Jay Dedman’s presentation from the ACMBoston 2006 conference in Boston. Here’s the clip from blip.tv:

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From the blip.tv description:

“A video excerpt of Jay Dedman, Node 101/FireAnt.tv, presenting at the Alliance for Community Media Conference in Boston, July 8, 2006.

To download and listen to the complete audio podcast from this session, visit the ACMEBoston Podcast.”

I’ve created a new page on the wiki, titled “Archiving” to explore this topic further.

This video was originally shared on blip.tv by acmeboston with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

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This video is a project for a graduate course I am taking at Emerson College this semester titled “Studies in Digital Media & Culture.” The assignment was to create a two-minute video based on the main concepts from our recent critical paper assignment. My paper, “PEG Access Internet as Alternative Networked Public Sphere”, attempts to build on concepts from Jurgen Habermas, Nancy Fraser, Yochai Benkler and others, with the purpose of exploring the role of PEG Access TV in an networked society.

For my thesis, over the next year, I hope to argue that a PEG Access Internet model provides a unique portal (unlike other online spaces) that can provide access to public, educational, and government information about issues taking place in local communities.

I hope that this blog will provide an opportunity to further share and explore these issues. And I welcome comments from those of you who know much more than I do about what a PEG Access TV model might look like on the Internet of the future.

This video was originally shared on blip.tv by cmediachange with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.

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Ben Sheldon, CTC Vista Project/Digital Bicycle, talks about Mapping Access and the evolving community media landscape. From the website:

“MappingAccess.com is a tool for acknowledging the ubiquity of Access Television and providing a means for stations to better work together. Awareness of one another is the first step.

In order to provide such a powerful tool freely and accessibly, MappingAccess.com is designed to empower stations to submit and maintain information about themselves. By self-empowering the MappingAccess.com’s users, our developers can best develop and improve the tools themselves.”

Produced by Colin Rhinesmith.

This video was originally shared on blip.tv by cmediachange with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.