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!