More on "public media"

[Keith Hopper]

Hopefully relevant event for this group on Tuesday. Websteaming for
those not in Boston.

[TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on FROM BROADCAST TO BROADBAND
================================================================================
11/3/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St.,
Cambridge, MA
RSVP is required for those attending in person (rs...@cyber.law.harvard.edu).
This event will be webcast live.

Topic: From Broadcast to Broadband: Redesigning public media for the
21st century
Guest: Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University School of Law & Jake
Shapiro, Executive Director, Public Radio Exchange (PRX)

A robust system of public media is of critical importance for
sustaining and enriching democratic practices and social advancement.
By connecting individuals to each other and to important public
discourses, public media can advance democratic capabilities, empower
publics to communicate and organize, and support the production and
distribution of valued media content.

Public media can be understood as operating across four dimensions:
(1) Public media supplement the commercial media market with content
and services designed intentionally to meet social, not market, needs.
(2) Public media leverage investments in educational, cultural and
other civil society functions by linking to and supporting those
functions. (3) Public media operate in a decentralized manner,
emphasizing local connections, to provide access and voice to
underserved populations. (4) Public media also centralize media
production and distribution efforts through networks and
collaboration.

What exactly the goals of public media should be in the new digital
communications environment, how these goals should be achieved, and
how each of the four dimensions of public media should be stretched
are open and pressing questions. For reasons external and internal to
public media entities, the next several years will be crucial in
determining whether the United States has a system of public media
that is able to support the kinds of widespread, high value,
noncommercial, and productive communications essential for democratic
functions. As policymakers focus more intensively on broadband policy,
they will need the perspectives of public media stakeholders to
fashion systems that support content production and citizen engagement
as well as inclusive technological infrastructure.

This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete
description, see the event web page:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2009/11/shapiro

--
Keith Hopper
publicinteractive.com | npr.org
(617) 423-4499 x126

[Malagodi]

Thanks Keith, it's on my calendar.

Here's a joke for the luncheon: "If CPB should become CPM, is there a
DOS (Decentralized Operating System) in the future?"

On Oct 29, 6:51 pm, Keith Hopper <khop...@publicinteractive.com>
wrote:

> Hopefully relevant event for this group on Tuesday. Websteaming for
> those not in Boston.
>
>  [TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on FROM BROADCAST TO BROADBAND
> =========================================================================== =====
> 11/3/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St.,
> Cambridge, MA

> RSVP is required for those attending in person (r...@cyber.law.harvard.edu).

[Jake Shapiro]

Good one, might remix with attribution for the luncheon!

The other framing question I've been using is borrowed from the Google
Wave team's task "what would email look like if you set out to invent
it today?"

So what would public media look like...

Please do tune in Tuesday if you can, and Berkman will make the video
available on-demand later as well.

Jake

[Malagodi]

Good suggestion Keith. Trying to get download a copy of the stream -
not just the powerpoint - but it's not available on the archive page.


On Oct 29, 5:51 pm, Keith Hopper <khop...@publicinteractive.com>
wrote:

> Hopefully relevant event for this group on Tuesday. Websteaming for
> those not in Boston.
>
>  [TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on FROM BROADCAST TO BROADBAND
> =========================================================================== =====
> 11/3/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St.,
> Cambridge, MA

> RSVP is required for those attending in person (r...@cyber.law.harvard.edu).

[Keith Hopper]

Video and audio in various formats is now available for this session
on redesigning public media for the 21st century

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/events/luncheons/2009/11/prx

Keith

[Malagodi, Stephen D.]

Got it, thanks.