eChicago2011: Building Community Through Broadband Media

The video from our session at this year’s eChicago conference is available on the eBlackCU website. The session details are below: Building Community Through Broadband Media eChicago 2011 UIC April 23 Computers and broadband technology present exciting opportunities and, at times, exhausting challenges for community-based media organizations in the digital age. The persistence of the [...]

Redefining Community Media in the Digital Age

Over the years, several important books, articles, and reports have been published on the topic of community media. A quick scan of Google Scholar search results reveals some of these studies. Many of these key works provide researchers with theories and methods to use in evaluating community media projects. More recently, a post on the [...]

Community and Collaboration at Beyond Books and NCMR 2011

I just returned from two incredible conferences in Boston last week that focused on the future of our media, technology, and democracy: Beyond Books and the National Conference for Media Reform. Community and collaboration were two key themes that emerged from both events. The Beyond Books convening at MIT was led by Journalism That Matters, [...]

Visualizing Community Information Needs with PEG Access TV

This proposal was originally published on the course website for Unorthodox Research Methods on March 30, 2011. Public, educational, and governmental (PEG) access TV stations serve community information needs “by connecting viewers to local resources and assistance, providing a persistent presence in the community” (Linder and Kenton, 2010). As Linder and Kenton wrote for the [...]