Below you can download audio and video from the 2006 convening, “Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture”. You can find more details about the panels and speakers on the Schedule page. If you have the time, please help us fill in the transcripts on the wiki pages for the benefit of others!
Summary Video
The 13-minute video features interviews with several conference speakers including: Peter Armstrong of Oneworld.net, videoblogger Jay Dedman, Jake Shapiro of Public Radio Exchange and others. The video provides some of the flavor of this event, including the ‘shadow conference’ on Second Life, an online, three-dimensional virtual world. You may also download this video in Quicktime format.
Produced by Martin Lucas for the Center for Social Media
Complete Coverage of All Sessions
Introduction and Welcome - Jake Shapiro
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Keynote Presentation: Reinventing the Gatekeeper - James Boyle
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Panel I: What the Broadcasters are doing
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High Order Bit: The War Tapes - Deborah Scranton
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Panel II: What the emerging participatory web media services are doing
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Panel III: What is the community dimension of media?
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High Order Bit: Just a Pretty Face(book)? What College Students Actually Do Online - Eszter Hargittai
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High Order Bit: Second Life - John Lester
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Panel IV: Surviving or Thriving: Beta Business Models in the New World
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Closing Remarks: Charles Nesson
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More Audio
- Audio Berkman has posted a number of interviews with BB participants.


[…] As mentioned earlier, last month I gave a talk at the Beyond Broadcast conference hosted at Harvard Law School. The conference folks have now made the presentations available in both audio and video format. You can listen to or watch my talk misleadingly titled “Just a Pretty Face(book)? What College Students Actually Do Online”. (The title is misleading, because the talk is not about Facebook or even social-networking sites more generally speaking. Rather, it’s about what young people do online and how it differs by type of background.) I have put the presentation slides online in case you are curious to see the specifics (those are hard to follow on the video and there wasn’t enough time for me to mention stats in the presentation). […]
[…] As mentioned earlier, last month I gave a talk at the Beyond Broadcast conference hosted at Harvard Law School. The conference folks have now made the presentations available in both audio and video format. You can listen to or watch my talk misleadingly titled “Just a Pretty Face(book)? What College Students Actually Do Online”. (The title is misleading, because the talk is not about Facebook or even social-networking sites more generally speaking. Rather, it’s about what young people do online and how it differs by type of background.) I have put the presentation slides online in case you are curious to see the specifics (those are hard to follow on the video and there wasn’t enough time for me to mention stats in the presentation). […]
[…] And speaking of conferences and Web 2.0 Broadcasting, if you missed Beyond Broadcast 2006: Reinventing Public Media in a Participatory Culture at Harvard, fear not. Instead, go here and settle in for a whole lot o’ info on digital media about the future of PB. (Hint: nothing to do with crunchy, smooth, or jam-mixed-in). […]
[…] Two of the inagural projects have included CCTV’s coverage of the Berkman Center sponsored Beyond Broadcast conference and Charlie Nesson’s “At Charlie’s Table” series. […]
[…] We had the opportunity to do some forward promotion of the upcoming Beyond Broadcast: From Participatory Culture to Participatory Democracy, which is shaping up to be an excellent follow up to last year’s conference, this Sunlight gathering, and the 2007 Public Media Conference organized by the Integrated Media Association. […]
[…] We’ll be continually updating this page with videos related to Beyond Broadcast 2007. If you’ve produced something we should include here, just drop us an email at info@beyondbroadcast.net. You may also want to check out the complete audio and video coverage from Beyond Broadcast 2006. […]