hey........I'm here. I wish I was still in Amsterdam.

I got a blog......sweet

hi everybody! i just got turned on to sut jolly who is a prof at umass amherst nad he is amazing. check him out! he does video as well as articles. see you guys!! http://www.sutjhally.com/onlinepubs/onlinepubs_frame.html

To do List

1. If you haven't already done so please register for tactical media either online or through Sarah Bartlett in the registration office, her email address is sarah.bartlett@umb.edu and her telephone # is: 617-287-5807 .
2. Schedule a meeting with Fred to go over which competencies you need to take for tactical media this semester.
3. If you feel that you an intro to video production and post production please schedule a meeting with Shannon McCue (me). You can email me a shannon.mccue@umb.edu
4. Text for Class: "Community Media: A Global Introduction" by: Ellie Rennie

On going assignment for those you are working on the "Media and Community Building" competency.
Define these terms listed below

1. Participatory Media
2. Community Media
3. Development Media
4. Democratic Media
5. Public Media
6. Citizen Media

check out these documentaries!!!! http://www.witness.org/

watch what you video tape...i was watching democracy now today and a free lance journalist and video blogger was put in jail for 30 days for video taping the G8 protest in edinburgh scotland last year i believe. he potentially faces more jail time. a sad time for media freedom and first amendment rights! go to democracynow.org for the full interveiew.

Fall 06 Semester Begins!

The first meeting of the semester will be Wednesday, September 6th @ 5:30-7pm. We will be meeting outside of the Taylor Center. See you then!

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!

Jon Stewart on Net Neutrality

The Tubes Are Clogged! This explains it all.