Transmission Project - community

The San Diego Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender Community Center

admin — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:45:06 +0000

Database of Potential Community Partners

admin — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:18:50 +0000

A spreadsheet created by corps member Jessica Wholey for Brookline Access TV with detailed info on community organizations, how/if they’ve worked with them in the past and how they might work with them in the future.

Digital Media Questionnaire

admin — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:21:16 +0000

A Digital Media Questionnaire that corps member Sam Kaplan created at Access Humboldt to survey Humboldt County digital media resources (institutions, organizations, programs, festivals, businesses, schools/classes, etc.) to determine what areas of the county and/or specific populations are most in need of additional digital media programs, and what types of digital media programs are most needed.

Blandin Broadband Conference

admin — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:02:47 +0000

This year’s Blandin Broadband Conference spotlights communities across Minnesota that are Cultivating a Culture of Use through ARRA broadband funding. Their goal is ambitious - to create technologically and economically vital rural communities, competing and thriving in the broadband economy, with sustainable broadband adoption, job growth and wealth creation.

We will hear from experts, researchers, students and folks in the field who are creating programs to help boost broadband use in their communities. We will also have time and space for attendees to ask questions and tell their stories, and follow up on the work of the Minnesota Ultra High-Speed Broadband Taskforce to answer the question, “Where are we now - one year later?”

The 36th Annual Community Radio Conference

admin — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:54:33 +0000

The National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) is a national alliance of stations, producers, and others committed ti community radio. NFCB advocates for national public policy, funding, recognition, and resources on behalf of its membership, while providing services to empower and strengthen community broadcasters through the core values of localism, diversity, and public service.

1st Chicago Neighborhood Digital Excellence Conference And Technology Fair

Belinda Rawlins — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:32:29 +0000

What is “digital excellence”? What does it mean for community and economic development, job creation, and connecting neighborhoods in Chicago? How do we create a “culture of use’ for digital tools and resources driven by “digital excellence”? What does “digital excellence” mean for how you and all of us work with each other in a city that wants to be a global player in the 21st century digital world?

Join us for an info-and-discussion packed one-day conference at DePaul University Egan Center. You’ll meet lots of knowledgeable, active people and learn about “digital excellence” and how we can all work with the concept “digital excellence” in defining our city’s future.

WGXC/Prometheus Radio Station Barnraising

Belinda Rawlins — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:37:18 +0000

For our 12th radio barnraising, Prometheus is joining forces with WGXC 90.7 FM! WGXC, Hands-on Radio is a community-powered media project of the transmission arts organization free103point9. What makes this barnraising like no other barnraising we’ve held before? Our partnership with WGXC will be our very first full power radio barnraising - at over 3000 watts, WGXC will reach nearly 80,000 people in two New York counties.

Joining us will be low power and full power community stations from around the country, community media makers, educators, and activists of all stripes. Workshops will cover topics including radio production and programming, technical and station organization issues, radio as a tool to organize communities, youth radio, transmission arts, and radio theater.

We’ll come together, as always, to meet old friends and new, to share ideas and experiences, and to teach and learn. While we build a radio station over the course of one electrifying weekend, we’ll also share the skills and build the networks that will strengthen the participatory media and the community radio movements. Come prepared to pick up a soldering gun, eat scrumptious local food, and celebrate the birth of WGXC - a brand-new community radio station!

Where: Hudson, NY
When: September 24 - 26

Registration includes:
* Access to all workshops and special events
* All meals
* Housing (either indoor crash-space, camping, or a home stay)
* Childcare. We love kids - they are free!

Miro Proposal

Mira Allen — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:16:32 +0000

A proposal highlighting the features of Miro. Prepared by corps member Anne Jonas.

Miro 101

Mira Allen — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:09:30 +0000

A comprehensive manual on how to create a Miro community. Prepared by corps member Anne Jonas.

Making Media Public Conference

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:26:18 +0000

Traditional ways of making media are in crisis and steadfast models are threatened with extinction: media giants teeter on the edge of bankruptcy, local television stations are being closed, thousands of media workers have been laid off, and community radio and television are poorly supported. At the same time, new media are increasingly embraced by publics that, linked through social networks, produce and distribute an increasing range of their own content. Old media meet new technology, traditional policies meet global political and economic challenges, and the future of journalism is under intense debate. In this volatile climate, the need to develop new media models and policies is urgent.

This conference, which is being held in Toronto at York and Ryerson Universities from 6-8 May 2010, will bring together a range of media publics, including local media producers, media and academic workers, students, policy makers, researchers, journalists, media activists and public organizations, to address the following questions: If the old models aren’t working, what are the possibilities for reorganizing media production in Canada? What opportunities and challenges does the current political economic climate pose for independent, autonomous and community media? How can mainstream media workers and their unions influence media development? What are essential public policy tenets, and what kinds of new policies can be forged?

The conference offers a unique opportunity to exchange experiences, ideas and strategies, to critique current models of media production, to problem-solve, and to envision new ways to democratically facilitate people’s participation in media decision-making. The goal is to help “make media public” — that is, to develop and build media models that address local concerns, that are sustainable, autonomous and independent, and involve a wide range of participation that reflect the daily political economic, social and cultural experiences of communities in Canada.

The conference is focused on four interrelated themes: history, labour, policy, and alternative/independent and community media. Submissions are invited on these themes and others that address the goal of “Making Media Public.”