Wednesday, August 09, 2006


More TMG folks in action...

Cambridge Community Television hosted a three-month class in which CCTV members Darcie DeAngelo, Mayana Leocadio, Matt Landry (UMB Spring '06 graduate), Jason Ong, Buz Owen and Amy Mertl with the help of instructors Shaun Clarke and Jason Crow, planned, wrote, shot, edited and distributed a short-form documentary on the subject of Citizen Journalism in a collaborative, citizen-journalism-style environment. The documentary features among others: Steve Garfield, Lisa Williams and Ethan Zuckerman. Watch the trailer.

For more information visit: http://projectdocumentary.blogspot.com

Watch the entire 12 minute piece at Cambridge Community Television on August 10, 2006 at 7:30pm.


Jason Pramas, media policy graduate student at UMB, and avid Tactical Media Group member, got us a plug in the Globe today. And, as always, he offered a thought provoking opinion:

"There were also those who questioned how the wiki system could sustain itself.

"We're just kind of assuming that people are going to volunteer their labor," said Jason Pramas, of the University of Massachusetts at Boston Tactical Media Group, which focuses on understanding technology and media policy. "It's great for increasing the bank of human knowledge. But it's lousy in that a lot of us are not going to make enough money to afford the laptops that we write wikis on.""

Read the full article at Boston.com.

Jason has also started calling us "TMG" - which sounds suspiciously like a jaw disorder but may be interesting new take for the fall!