Community Media in Transition

Community Technology and Public Access TV

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.

YouTube = Public Access TV?

In this Community Media in Transition video podcast, Felicia M. Sulllivan, Executive Director of Organizers' Collaborative responds to the question, does "YouTube = Public Access TV?".Community Media in Transition is a collaborative graduate thesis project on the web at cmediachange.net."YouTube = Public Access TV?" is licensed by Community Media in Transition under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Share Alike 3.0 license.

Alternative Networked Public Sphere

Ben Sheldon on Mapping Access

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-e...