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Hear what Sut Jhally thinks!The Media Education Foundation's Sut Jhally ACME's First "Media Education/Activist" Award Presented at the 2004 ACME National Summit
This evening, members from ACMEBoston, Community Change Inc., and the Boston Neighborhood Producers' Group Inc., held a videoblogging workshop for public access producers at the Boston Neighborhood Network's Multimedia Studio in Roxbury, MA.it was the first part in a two part workshop series to teach access producers how to distribute their video on the web, through videoblogging. At this evening's first workshop, we talked about blogging and basic concepts around how to start a blog and a vid...
A video excerpt of Jay Dedman, Node 101/FireAnt.tv, presenting at the Alliance for Community Media Conference in Boston, July 8, 2006.From the conference website:Digital Content Distribution for the Producer"From MPEG to Mp3, producers of media content have more distribution opportunities today than ever before. The proliferation of inexpensive media making tools is providing the opportunity for more people to become media makers, yet meaningful media creation still requires skilled training a...
Hannah Sassaman, Prometheus Radio Project, presenting at the Alliance for Community Media Conference in Boston, July 8, 2006.From the conference website:Community Media Reaches Beyond Cable Television"Community media is more than cable television production and transmission. Who are our media partners? While preserving the best of television, how can we reach out to new partners, tools and applications to enhance our services and relevance in our communities? How can we best use our centers to...
This video is the introduction to a panel, titled "Human Hybrids: Creating a Global Identity", that took place during the ID Mashup Conference at Harvard Law School on June 20, 2006. The video features co-founder and CEO of ASAFO Media LLC Derrick Ashong, Slam Poet Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo, Jair of Imaginify Community Network, and Jamaican Educator Marvin Hall.Panel description from the conference website (www.idmashup.org):"In a world where people are increasingly able to connect across cultural an...
Ada, Hiram, Janet and I went on the P.A.T. (Public Access Television) Show this evening, produced by the Boston Neighborhood Producer's Group. We talked about legislation in Congress that's threatening the future of public access television and the Internet. We also discusssed ways that residents in Boston can get involved and take action to protect access to community media and the Internet.Here's a short video with Hiram Scott, President of BNPG, before going on the P.A.T. Show inside the Ro...