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Alliance for Community Media - ACM 2004 International Conference
July 6 - 10, 2005, Monterey, CA
KEY Support and Funding for this site:
Community
Media and Technology Program: College of Public and Community Service
Media Working Group Inc.
PEG Access and Smart Economies
Wednesday, July 6, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
PEG Access and Smart Economies would allow PEG Access professionals
and advocates to develop an understanding of progressive economic
and community development. Through case studies, presentations
by innovative professionals, and issue framing exercises, participants
will have the opportunity to become familiar with cutting edge
theories and approaches to economic development; understand the
politics of progressive economic development in the context of
a global media culture; learn how to frame PEG as a positive element
in their community's development initiatives; and, create positive
relationships with independent producers and new media producers,
locally and globally. Download PDF
Workshop Leader: Fred Johnson, Director, Community
Media and Technology Program, UMass Boston. Media
Working Group
Other Presenters:
Wally Bowen, founder and executive director of the nonprofit Mountain
Area Information Network (MAIN) in Asheville, N.C.
Julie Omelchuck, Assistant Director for the Office of Cable Communications
and Franchise Management for the City of Portland, Oregon.
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Fred Johnson
Fred Johnson is a media educator, documentary maker, writer, and communication
policy analyst. Johnson, who is Directs the University of Massachusetts
Faculty in their Community Media Program. He consults in telecommunications
policy and community development with government, non-profits, educational
and community groups; he is a former telecommunications policy associate
for the National Telecommunications Consumer Coalition, and a recipient
of the Fulbright Fellowship for the Television and Film Arts. His production
work includes producing and directed documentaries for the British
Broadcasting Corporation in London and numerous regional PBS documentaries.
Recently he directed the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture's
Digital Directions project, a national planning process, funded by
the Ford Foundation, that focused on the impact of digitization on
the media arts. Johnson is a co-founder of Media Working Group, a media
arts production, education and research organization. His latest documentary,
Coal Black Voices, featuring the Affrilachian Poets recently aired
on regional Public Television.
Wally Bowen
Wally Bowen is founder and executive director of the nonprofit Mountain
Area Information Network (MAIN) in Asheville, N.C. MAIN includes an
alternative news and information web portal and a low-power FM radio
station, WPVM-103.5 FM, the Progressive Voice of the Mountains. The
network's primary funding stream is derived from its nonprofit Internet
access and webhosting services -- including nationwide dial-up under
the
brand, IndyLink -- and a growing wireless network in the mountains of
North Carolina. Bowen has also been instrumental in establishing the
first
public access TV operation in the mountain region, scheduled to launch
in
early 2006. MAIN is positioned to webcast the PATV video stream for citizens
without cable service.
Julie S. Omelchuck
Julie has worked on communications policy issues for the past 17 years.
Currently, she is the Assistant Director for the Office of Cable Communications
and Franchise Management for the City of Portland, Oregon. In this
capacity, she staffs the Mt. Hood Cable Regulatory Commission, a multi-jurisdictional
regulatory body overseeing cable franchises on behalf of five cities,
including Portland, Gresham, Troutdale, Fairview and Wood Village,
and Multnomah county.
Over the past seven years, she has managed the development of the
Community Institutional Network: a network constructed and operated
by Comcast as a public resource for use by public agencies, schools,
community colleges, educational institutions and other community organizations.
Julie also directs the Community Access Capital Grant program which
provides funding to public and non-profit groups for community-based
technology projects through a competitive grant program and special
initiatives.
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Digitization: Discrete media - film, electronic media, photography,
print - are becoming common flows of digitized content, transported through
an interactive communication infrastructure for end use by digital information
and software applications.
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