http://colinrhinesmith.com Exploring digital media and culture Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:21:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On October 30, I dropped by the WBUR Social Media Group Open House. As their wiki explains These events were conceived as a means to draw those riding the social media wave together with the old guard to explore ways we may learn from and challenge each other, the aim ... http://colinrhinesmith.com/2008/11/15/wbur-social-media-group-open-house/ The second year of our NeighborMedia program at CCTV kicked off on October 8th. Three returning participants from last year's program and nine new participants will take part in this year's program. Many of the new participants are currently taking classes at CCTV in areas such as video production, audio ... http://colinrhinesmith.com/2008/10/21/neighbormedia-2008-2009-begins/ I am excited to announce that the second year of NeighborMedia (a New Voices Grantee) is getting started next week. We're having an orientation at CCTV next Wednesday to welcome this year's group of up and coming citizen journalists who will be sharing their stories about issues that matter ... http://colinrhinesmith.com/2008/10/01/citizen-journalism-and-community-media/ From "Fighting Poverty: Community Media and Communication for Development in the Digital Age”: Access to the means of voice and communication is central to a people-centred approach to development both for its intrinsic human importance and its rola in shared culture, access to knowledge and education, civic participation in decision making, ... http://colinrhinesmith.com/2008/09/25/community-communications-for-development-in-the-digital-age/ Reason #1134 why C-Span rocks: Podcasts (iTunes) & YouTube episodes of The Communicators, "C-SPAN's new weekly series featuring a half-hour interview with the people who shape our digital future." Watch C-Span's "The Communicators" episodes on Obama's and McCain's Telecom Policy Agenda for the next administration. http://colinrhinesmith.com/2008/09/21/mccain-obama-telecom-policy-positions-via-c-span/ On Thursday, the Alliance for Community Media issued the following press release, entitled "U.S House Subcommittee will ask FCC to examine harm to public, educational, and governmental television": In response to testimony from Alliance for Community Media members yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government voiced ... http://colinrhinesmith.com/2008/09/20/congress-asks-fcc-to-review-harm-to-peg-access-tv/ Broadcasting & Cable published two good articles detailing the positions of McCain and Obama on some of the most pressing media policy issues of our time, including media ownership, the digital television transition, and network neutrality. Read "Obama's Media Agenda" here and "McCain Campaign Mum on Media Policy" here. Thanks to Bob ... http://colinrhinesmith.com/2008/09/08/mccain-obama-media-policy-and-the-election/ (This is a cross-post - with a different title - from here) A few weeks ago, I spoke with Jared M. Gordon from NewEnglandFilm.com. He was doing a piece about the Flip Mino cameras and contacted me to learn more about how we're using them here at CCTV. The article, entitled "Three ... http://colinrhinesmith.com/2008/09/04/my-chat-with-newenglandfilmcom/ I just learned from Rob McCausland via the Alliance for Community Media listserv that Dee Dee Halleck and Dan Gilmor discussed the question, "Is Public Access TV Still Relevant?" on The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC today. I haven't had an opportunity to listen to it yet, but since the ... http://colinrhinesmith.com/2008/08/25/halleck-and-gilmor-discuss-public-access-tv-on-wnyc/ After my final class of Videoblogging Production last night, I'm already thinking about how I can do things differently next time. Thanks to my students who provided precious feedback about the course, I've decided to organize the sessions much more practically. For example, I'm thinking that the three ... http://colinrhinesmith.com/2008/08/13/rethinking-videoblogging-production/