Center for Social Media's Posts

Comments of mine that the FCC cited in its National Broadband Plan (advocating for a more robust and restructured public media system) have been getting some attention in the blogs. There have been a few outlandish posts accusing me of supporting state control of the media. Read more...

In 1997 I interviewed documentary filmmaker Ilan Ziv – a pioneer in video storytelling in projects like On the Edge of Peace (1995), an Israeli-Palestinian coproduction in which three Palestinians and three Israelis were given cameras to record their experiences during a hopeful period or peace negotiations. Ziv was a powerful advocate for small-format reports on “ordinary lives shaped by political circumstances,” producing video diaries in many parts of the world. Read more...

Loni Ding -- documentary filmmaker, university teacher, and media activist - died on Saturday, February 20, 2010 in Berkeley, California. She exemplified the best in the way social documentarians can expand the public sphere. She did this by working to create public institutions to showcase underrepresented voices in American life, and by creating work that not only raised awareness but encouraged meaningful discussion and debate. Read more...

We apologize for the inconvenience that canceling the Making Your Media Matter conference might have caused some attendees, but given the current weather conditions in the area, we are assured this decision was for the best.

We have not yet decided on a rescheduled date for the conference, but it will likely be later this spring. All registrations will be honored for the rescheduled date. If you are unable to come to the new date when it is announced, we will begin processing refunds on registration.Read more...

We're pleased to present this guest post from Christopher Ali, doctoral student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Ali holds an MA in Media Studies from Concordia University in Montreal and his research interests include local and community media, broadcasting, and telecommunication policy in Canada and the United States.

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