Alliance for Community Media

• ACM 2010 International Conference & Exhibition promo

  2010 International Conference & Exhibition promo ~Details and registration info at: http://alliancecm.org/2010conference

• Community Media: Fixing What the Mainstream Media Broke

  Panel discussion at Alliance for Community Media National Conference, July 6, 2006, Boston Moderator: Dan Kennedy, Northeastern University School of Journalism Panelists: Sascha Meinrath, Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network; Kevin Howley, DePauw University Media Studies; Felicia Sullivan, Organizers' Collaborative. Mainstream media’s corrosive effects on community life have long been studied and discussed. In 1985, the late Neil Postman wrote a famous critique of our television culture, “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.” Also in 1985, Joshua Meyrowitz wrote a related critique, “No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior.” More recently, Robert Putnam wrote “Bowling Alone: The Collapse & Revival of American Community” in which he cites television as one of the causes for a decline in America’s “social capital.” Community-based media stands as an antidote to the community-corrosive effects of mass media. It creates a sense of place, rather than obliterating it; it builds community, rather than eroding it. Largely ignored by the mainstream media, community media has been quietly fixing what the mainstream media has been callously breaking.

• Alliance for Community Media Video File Sharing Network Presentation

  This is Daniell Krawczyk's impromtu presentation of the ACM's video file-sharing network, now in beta test, delivered at the workshop, "Expanding the Reach of Community Programming," at the ACM-Northeast Regional Conference, Burlington, VT, May 22, 2009.The full, 91-minute workshop video is on the ACM-NE's blip site. "Leaders in the exchange of community programming talk about the networks that are in place (New Jersey, Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts), and how to help to build a national network of community produced/user generated content. Moderator: Rich Desimone, Jersey Access Group (JAG). Presenters: Scott Campitelli, RETN & VT Media Exchange; Moe Amaral, Media Specialist, SPCTV, South Portland, ME; Jeff Hansell, MyMassTV & Executive Director, BMC, Belmont, MA and Matt Landry, BMC Intern-Harvard University & Coordinator, MyMassTV." http://blip.tv/file/2162139