http://www.beyondbroadcast.net/blog/?p=59 New directions in public media for a digital, participatory era Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:22:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://www.beyondbroadcast.net/blog/?p=59#comment-2343 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:30:37 +0000 http://www.beyondbroadcast.net/blog/?p=59#comment-2343 I will echo the sentiment of Fred Johnson in that the storied organization of public-access television centers in the US was given pretty short shrift at this particular conference. It is an ill-fated illusion that the term "public media" be only attached to those entities which operate under the umbrella of PBS/NPR. Community media content creators, activists and consumers formed the first true organization centered around a truly democratic and open media creation paradigm. It is a strategic blunder, on a massive scale, to ignore the common ground which unites the true public media with the emerging new media types. I am equally as critical of the public media organizations who refuse to recognize net neutrality as an issue of primary concern for themselves and their constituents. Unless these two movements can successfully network, collaborate and integrate, the traditional control-oriented business model of broadcasting will act to eliminate and/or heavily restrict and regulate true public access to both new and standard forms of electronic communications. I will echo the sentiment of Fred Johnson in that the storied organization of public-access television centers in the US was given pretty short shrift at this particular conference.
It is an ill-fated illusion that the term “public media” be only attached to those entities which operate under the umbrella of PBS/NPR. Community media content creators, activists and consumers formed the first true organization centered around a truly democratic and open media creation paradigm. It is a strategic blunder, on a massive scale, to ignore the common ground which unites the true public media with the emerging new media types.
I am equally as critical of the public media organizations who refuse to recognize net neutrality as an issue of primary concern for themselves and their constituents. Unless these two movements can successfully network, collaborate and integrate, the traditional control-oriented business model of broadcasting will act to eliminate and/or heavily restrict and regulate true public access to both new and standard forms of electronic communications.

]]> http://www.beyondbroadcast.net/blog/?p=59#comment-178 Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:29:57 +0000 http://www.beyondbroadcast.net/blog/?p=59#comment-178 [...] Instructive Panel: What is the Community Media Dimension, see Barbara Abrash’s blog notes on the panel. http://www.beyondbroadcast.net/blog/?p=59 [...] […] Instructive Panel: What is the Community Media Dimension, see Barbara Abrash’s blog notes on the panel. http://www.beyondbroadcast.net/blog/?p=59 […]

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