uh-oh - podcasts - and agenda

hi all,

first, attached is the agenda for this Wednesdays group meeting. (not
sent to the blog)

second, have added some information to the discussion board and started
another topic for 'broadcast'. it looks pretty scarce at the moment. we
should be either (a) using the discussion board or (b) determining
another way to present information that we come up with. at some point
we want to make this body of knowledge (which is only just starting)
available to the public...right?

so the new broadcast forum
http://www.cpcs.umb.edu/cmt/work/forums/viewforum.php?id=10
the forum
http://www.cpcs.umb.edu/cmt/work/forums/
you need to register to use it
http://www.cpcs.umb.edu/cmt/work/forums/register.php

third, oh the podcasts...I'm hooked.
- Democracy Now
- Digital Life TV videocast
- Extreme Tech
- media matters with Bob McChesney
- mediageek
- Mediaminutes

All Free! - and the video is of decent quality.

fourth, what the hell is going on in the White House? libby was
indicted and charged on five counts...Miers withdraws from her Supreme
Court nomination...Am I crazy or is the timing on this just a little too
coincidental. Miers takes some of the heat off the CIA leak
investigation with her little scandel (which she was an absurd
nomination to begin with) and now the indictments will overshadow her
withdrawal...which i guess is just politics.

out,
Matt

Digital Media Workshop

College of Public and Community Service
November 7-10@ The Taylor Center

Interested in Creating Digital Media like Video and Flash?

Want to learn about peer-to-peer network applications?

Learn Basic Web Design!

What about Blogging and Video Blogging?

Free to all Faculty and Students!

All sessions will be held at the Taylor Center, located
on the third floor in the Wheatley building.
UMass Boston, 100 Morrissey Boulevard,
Boston, MA 02125-3383

To RSVP or for more info,
contact Shannon McCue
shannon.mccue@umb.edu
or 617-287-7385

Get the PDF flyer here

Tactical Media 10-26

Attendees:

Shannon McCue, Danielle Martin, Sequoia Stenlund, Matt Landry, Fred Johnson, Jonell Joseph

Digital Media Workshop:

• Updated schedule is on the web http://www.cpcs.umb.edu/cmt/TacticalMedia05.html
• Natasha has offered help getting presenters
• Shannon needs descriptions of workshops by Friday
• Need bodies in Bruce’s workshops to go with videos
• Party at end? Thursday night?
• Event publicity To Do’s:
• Flyer distribution – done!
• Email out to lists– done!
• ID greeters for each session
• Write descriptions for website- email Shannon!

Group Logistics:

1. Chair – Matt?
2. Notes – Danielle?

Media Policy Discussions:

How to proceed:

• we picked topics for next set of meetings (see below)
• one group member will volunteer as moderator for each discussion, do a little research on the subject, and send some articles to read ahead of time to group
• we will decide what to discuss next week at the end of every meeting, based on what’s going on in the news

Topics:

• Broadcast (Jonel) – Nov 2^nd
• Digital Transition and Public Safety Act
• Copyright / Intellectual Property (Matt)
• Public Media / Ownership (Shannon)
• Wireless (WIFI and WIMAX) (Sequoia)
• Cable (Danielle)
• Must carry
• Defined as communication service vs cable service
• Broadband
• Over powerlines
• Cable
• Wireless
• DSL
• Concentration of ownership
• Telecom Act 1996

Fred’s ideas around media as both culture & commodity:

• Communications Economics
• Consumption of product does not destroy the product (it’s still hanging around after 1^st use)
• Novelty as a factor in sales
• Cost is loaded on 1^st copy -> demands big companies to produce cost effectively because need capital upfront (aggregate capital?)
• How does all the economics affect the creation and ownership of the media itself?

Questions for next session:

- BROADCAST!

Blurbs for workshop

I don't actually remember which blurbs I was to do - I wrote down camera and editing. tell me if I need to do anything else. I wrote the basic editing blurb for Imovie - is that correct? the advanced editing blurb is mostly from the CCTV web site so I think Jason will be fine with it.

basic editing (with Imovie)
This workshop introduces basic concepts and techniques common to all digital editing applications. Get hands-on training in DV(digital video) editing using a Macintosh computer and one of the easiest video editing programs around! A great choice for beginning video editors*/./*

advanced editing
This workshop aims to expand what you know about Final Cut and make you feel more comfortable using it. Learn more about trimming edits and transitions, creating titles and effects, batch digitizing, working with offline clips, importing and exporting, filetypes, key commands, shortcuts and more!

basic camera
Introduction to canon handheld miniDV camera. use this workshop to get comfortable pointing and shooting the camera to get an image.
advanced camera
complete introduction to the Sony PD-150 3 chip, miniDV camera. find that why this is the camera of choice for many pro-sumers. We will also cover concepts such as tripods, audio inputs and image control.

New Tactical Media Web site

http://www.cpcs.umb.edu/cmt/TacticalMedia05.html

Publicity Plan: For digital media workshop

1. Confirm schedule (Danielle by Monday)
2. Make flyer (Matt)
3. Post on CMT website & include RSVP email (Shannon)
4. Send flyer .pdf/in-line text to:
1. All CPCS students (see Suzanne Almandinger)
2. Falculty (Andrea)
3. Outside community (get listservs from Fred)
5. Enter in UMass Frontpage (Matt) & weekly schedule of events
6. Distribute Flyers

Media Owndership Timeline

Media Ownership Timeline
Source: HearUsNow.org (www.hearusnow.org./index.php?id=97)
1941 Local Radio Ownership and National TV Ownership Rules limited media
concentration. A 35% national cap prevented broadcasters from owning stations
that would reach more than that number of the nation's homes.
1946 Network mergers prohibited. Dual Television Network Rule barred one major
network from buying another.
1964
Broadcasters could only own one station per market. TV broadcasters
prohibited from owning more then one station unless there are more then eight
stations.
1970 Cross-ownership of Radio and TV banned. Broadcaster could not own a radio
station and a television station in the same market.
1975 Newspaper and TV cross-ownership restricted. One company was prohibited
from owning both a newspaper and a TV broadcast station in the same market.
1981
Deregulation by FCC and Congress. This first round of deregulation allowed a
company to own up to 12 TV stations (up from seven), as long as those stations
did not reach more than 25 percent of the population.
1987
DC Circuit Court eliminated fairness doctrine. Since the FCC's inception, the
fairness doctrine had held that radio and TV license holders were public trustees
charged with 1) taking reasonable steps to present multiple and opposing
viewpoints and 2)performing public service reporting on key community
issues. In 1987, the DC Circuit Court held in Meredith Corp. v. FCC that the FCC
could not enforce the doctrine.
1992
The Cable Act of 1992 gave broadcasters the power to demand "bundled
programming." Large broadcasters, claiming that cable companies were getting
rich from "re-transmitting" their programming, prompted the Act's "must
carry"/"Retransmission consent" option. Smaller stations elected "must-carry" in
order to be sure that all broadcast programming was aired. Larger broadcasters,
however, were able to negotiate favorable contracts in exchange for
"retransmission consent," contracts that often required cable companies to show
- and pay for - additional stations owned by the broadcasters (bundling).
Feb.
1996
Telecommunications Act of 1996 engendered further deregulation of media
policy. The Act envisioned robust cross-market competition among different
types of telecommunications services, eliminating Congressional bans broadcast
and cable provider cross-ownership and replacing it with a directive for the FCC
to review and eliminate ownership limits as markets became more competitive.
The FCC began relaxing these limits almost immediately, resulting in

unprecedented levels of consolidation in virtually every communications and

Tactical Media 10-12

Attendees:

Shannon McCue-Vista, Video Production

Danielle Martin-VISTA, Multimedia & Curriculum

Jason Pramas- Mass Global Action, http://massglobalaction.org

Adam Frederick- Video Production, promotion

Sequoia Stenlund-Media Production

Matt Landry-

Fred Johnson-

Colin Rhinesmith-

Hedi St. James-

Digital Media Workshop:

• Bruce will not be available for the week. He promised that he would have someone take his place
• We reviewd the schedule for the workshop, made some changes and an update is below.
• Danielle will act as the coordinator and begin contacting some of the questions on the schedule.
• Are there any suggestions for video bloggers?
• Matt will create a flyer to help advertise the event.
• Shannon will use the same information and we will start a web site.
• There are several other venues we should consider for advertisement. These become more relevant as we plan other events.

· various e-mail lists - on-campus and off

· UMass Boston web site

· Chancellor weekly events

· Mass media and the reporter

*Updated Draft Schedule:

	Monday 11/7	Tuesday 11/8	Wednesday 11/9	Thursday 11/10
11:30-1:30	Basic Camera Matt/Adam/Shannon	Basic Camera Celeste/Shannon	Advanced Edting Jason Crowe, CCTV	Intro to Photoshop Danielle
			Intro to Taylor Center Fred/Shannon/others	Advanced Lighting Matt
2:00-4:00	Basic Lighting Matt	Advanced Lighting ?/Matt	Basic Editing Shannon/Celeste	Intro to Flash Cisco
	Intro to Taylor Center Fred/Shannon/others	Intro to Web Design Hedy/Nettrice?	Sound Bruce/Danielle	Roundtable: Media Around the World Jonel?/Hedy/Seqoia
4:00-6:00	Digital Storytelling Tasha	Advanced Camera ?/Matt	Intro to Peer-tp-Peer Daniell Krawczyk from Digital Bicycle	Video Blogging Andy Carvin/Steve Garfield
			Advanced Camera ?/Matt

Colin joined our conversation:

Colin Works at the Berkman Center for Internet and society at Harvard Law school (which is pretty darn cool). He gave us some background on the action Coalition for media Education (ACME) in that he is organizing a Boston chapter. There is an event October 22 that is happening at MIT and the first ACME meeting might be happening after that

Find out more http://www.acmecoalition.org/

He then talked about some projects that were going on at the Berkman Center and also about some upcoming events:

Both Colin and increase will be speaking at an event on October 20 at 5:30 p.m. 29 Winter St. Boston

Benten has a policy tracking page http://www.benton.org/?q=tracking_legislation

Money for the Media Club

Hi all,
there is an open house on Saturday, October 22 from 8 a.m. to noon - if
we can represent that table for the media club for the entire event we
can get $100 for the club...sounds cool huh?!

anybody able to help?

I will be there for the whole time but will need to spend time in the
Senate table.

freepress - media policy 101

1) this work is licensed under a creative Commons license http://creativecommons.org/

2) this is part of a larger media reform Toolkit

3) the average American spends over four hours a day watching TV - I don't even own a TV...and I work for a station - figure that out

4) media companies create content that attract the best audience for advertisers. What ever happened to the concept of public media? how could this happen if the public "owns the airwaves"? was this ever written as law? to me public interest=public media...look at the BBC

5) Clear Channel owns more than 10% of the radio stations across the country. Clear Channel is in the business of "selling product". news, information and researched music do not appear on clear channel stations

6) how do we attack the problem? should we advocate for more independent media creators, creating restrictions and policy on the distribution mechanism or the policy that governs how these companies do business?

7) How can the public effectively lobby against $222 million? who should be lobbying?

8) how can the public prove that Fox News does not serve public interest? ever see outfoxed?

9) what would it look like for media companies to prove that they are meeting public-interest obligations? how would they try to get around this?

yeah...new building

I now work at BNN and we are going to move sometime in 2007