national conference for media reform
Categories:
I came across the website for the National Conference for Media Reform today; it's a semin-annual conference, and is coming up on January 12-14 in Memphis, Tenessee. This year's topics look fascinating: independent/noncommercial media, social justice in media, media activism. They have mp3s of most of the 2005 sessions.
Some of the topics that looked especially interesting to me:
- Wi-fi and Community Internet
- Race and Gender in Media Ownership
- Building and Sustaining Independent Media
- Community and Youth Media
- Independent Media as an Organizing Tool
- Media Policy is a Civil Rights Issue
- Technological Discrimination and the Digital Divide
- Organizing Youth to Reform Our Media
- Making Media Policy at the Local Level
I'll definitely be listening in and keeping an eye on bloggers' coverage of this.
Comment from lauren bratslavsky on December 15, 2006 - 5:18pm
Hi Rebecca and anyone interested:
Finally a national conference that is not taking place on the east or west coast. Half of the people at my organization are going and they are thankfully taking me along.
I'll try to take good notes and collect as many handouts (even from sessions I don't go to) and hopefully post them. And I'll certainly blog about the conference, though a professional blogger ( I can't believe that's real) would be much better to read.
Comment from Rebecca White on December 15, 2006 - 5:25pm
Hey, your take on the conference will quite possibly be more relevant to me than a, uh, professional blogger's. I look forward to hearing about it!
Comment from danielle martin on December 19, 2006 - 6:32pm
I ended up getting a scholarship but I have family obligations that weekend, so luckily they accepted Ben as my stand in. He's much better at the shmoozing than me anyway.
Yes, blog often about the conference and include photos!
-Danielle