Beyond Broadcast

The Beyond Broadcast conference last Saturday, held at MIT, featured a brilliant vision of public media as truly participatory media with a democratic heart, by Henry Jenkins. (He was drawing from his equally brilliant book Convergent Culture, which reminds us among other things that powerful democratic communications tools are often incubated in improbable environments such as fanzines.) Go to beyondbroadcast.net to catch up a little. And if you'd like to hear another voice about the conference, check out the wonderful David Silver's blog, which features a conversation he had with the Center's Barbara Abrash, here:
http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/2007/02/beyond-broadcast-mit.html.