ALTERNATIVES ON MEDIA CONTENT, JOURNALISM, AND REGULATION

Participatory Models and Alternative Content Production: Whether concerned with social movements, civic engagement, aesthetic production or personal expression, alternative content production embraces participation as core value as well as a structural possibility. is theme event examines attempts to develop, use, augment and promote structures for participation in production processes. Discussion will compare content creators` strategies for social inclusion, democratic involvement and technological literacy, by looking not only at technological or political institutional ones as well. Key practitioners also imperatives but address what is meant by participation, who participates and how, and what alternative content producers gain and lose from participatory design. | Alternative Journalisms: What are the many faces of TH alternative journalism today? is theme event explores the role of alternative journalists in speaking to power and creating social change and contemplates journalists` adaptation and/or resistance to PANnew social, economic, political and technological pressures in the field. e discussion will center on the practice of alternative journalism as it has existed in the past and in the present. Panelists will also treat alternative journalism`s successes and failures and the challenges of working in a media- and information-saturated environment. e event will end by reflecting on ways to enhance alternative journalism`s critical capacities. | Civil Society and Edited Regulation: As media, communications and information systems become more complex, civil society has become increasingly concerned with their just and ethical control and management. In Benja this event, advocates working for change in regulatory regimes Nico review current debates, illuminating the ways in which media, communications and information policy intersects with citizens, communities and constituencies at the grassroots level. Both practical and hypothetical intersections will be explored. Panelists will also discuss citizens` ability to inform decision-making about government and governance of media, communications and information as well as advocates` ability to monitor and contribute to policy debates. THE RESEARCHING AND TEACHING COMMUNICATION SERIES Series editors: Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt and Nico Carpentier ISBN 978-9985-4-0521-5 (PDF) ISSN 1736-4752 (online) The work of all individual authors included in this volume is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Belgium License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/be/). TartuUniversity Press www.tyk.ee ALTERNATIVESON MEDIACONTENT, JOURNALISM,ANDREGULATION. Thegrassroots discussion panelsat the 2007 ICA Conference. Edited by Seeta Peña Gangadharan Benjamin De Cleen Nico Carpentier TartuUniversity Press www.tyk.ee TableofContents INTRODUCTION- Nico Carpentier....................................................................1 GRASSROOTS DISCUSSION PANEL 1 -Participatory Models and Alternative Content Production................................................................................................3 Independent Publishing on the Internet: Webzine and Fifteen Megs ofFame-RyanJunell................................................................................................................5 Videoblogging andOurmedia.org-Jay Dedman....................................................15 The Participatory Nature of OhmyNews: Citizen Reporters Passionately Committed to Social Change- Ronda Hauben.......................................................19 Global Voices: From BloggerMeetup to Editorial Hierarchy- David Sasaki.......23 GRASSROOTS DISCUSSION PANEL 2 - Alternative Journalisms...................29 Social Movements and the Printed and Electronic Word- BobOstertag...............31 Radical Reference: Taking Information to the Street- ShinJoung Yeo...................41 Knew Media- JoshWolf..........................................................................................45 Notes on Alternative Journalism- DonHazen.......................................................49 GRASSROOTS DISCUSSION PANEL 3 - Civil Society and Regulation ............53 A FrameworkforMedia Justice- Malkia Cyril ......................................................55 Radio Controlled: A Media Activist’sGuide to the Federal Communications Commission- Pete Tridish......................................................................................57 Remarks for Grassroots Discussion Panel on Civil Society and Regulation- Todd Davies.....................................................................................................................63 Electronic FrontierFoundation andActivism: Defining the Net as Grassroots-DannyO’Brien.........................................................................................................67 ... - tailieumienphi.vn