In my first month at Prometheus, I did a lot of reading. I familiarized myself with some of the issues under discussion at the FCC, such as rural commercial radio, digital radio, Tribal radio, and diversity reporting. Part of my job is translating these complex regulatory issues into terms that ordinary people can understand, so I first need to build my own expertise on radio regulation.

Comment from Mira Allen on October 8, 2009 - 12:26pm

Nice work on finding your niche.

So whats been going on at CTOC (community technology organizing consortium) since I started my Vista-ship back in November? Well, from November to the beginning of January I spent a lot of the time doing outreach for a Holiday event we held. That turned out to be a bit of a flop on attendance and I did feel like a bit of a failure to my organization but I got over it. I realized the causes of low attendannce were various...new event location, holiday season, etc. It was my first few weeks on the job so I wasn't too hard on myself. As soon as that was over we got a call from CTCNet to help with outreach for the Los Angeles institutes, as they were lacking in registration.  So the week and a half long tasks of phone calls, e-mails, and e-vites began again. This turned out to be much much better. The CTCNet institute was quite interesting and informative. Unlike many of the CTCVista's I lack in being "tech savvy" so I never realized the capabilities of various software components and its ability to provide access to the disabled. 

Comment from lauren bratslavsky on February 1, 2007 - 2:03pm

Hi Dana-

Here's some starting points about broadband. Hope it leads you in the right direction.

PBS program on Net Neutrality (you may already know about it) - http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/index.html You can watch the whole program or just the parts that interest you (look for the subheadings). There are also a lot of documents at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/documents.html

At the Media Reform conference, there were at least 2 panels that may be relevant - one on wireless internet networking and another on the digital divide. Look for the audio recordings on the conference site: http://www.freepress.net/conference/=full_schedule07

And if you're looking for academic research or even newspaper/magazine articles, check into seeing if your local library has access to research databases such as EBSCO, Academic Search Premiere, or Lexis Nexus, any sort of periodical or research database. If you're at the library website, it would be under research page or something like that. Or find a friend who is going to school and has access to those databases.

Comment from dana sou on February 1, 2007 - 2:54pm

Thanks Lauren ! That was definately helpful.