Vyew meeting dates (11/08 to 12/08)

Future dates for meeting in Vyew...

11/14/08, 11/21/08 and 12/05/08 at 8pm in Vyew

My 1st website

http://www.cpcs.umb.edu/~Sara%20Hamadane/acote.html

Agenda for November 6, 2008 Conference Call

Agenda for November 6, 2008 Conference Call

Link to Tactical Syllabus: http://fredjohnson.mwg.org/?page_id=21

Tactical Media Wiki: http://tacticalmedia.wikispaces.com/


• Chair/call facilitator?

• Additions to agenda?

• General discussion, clarifications, and feedback on the Web/Internet class

• Reminder Web/Internet class meetings next week:
November 10th, 12th, 17th and 19th?

• (3)Future on-line gatherings: Tutorials and Reports [Jay Cleary]

• Discussions of other on-line venues

• Setting dates for future meetings
http://tacticalmedia.wikispaces.com/Calendar

Discussion of assignments – Identifying Reporters
Reporters will use the capabilities of the on-line web tools chosen to make the reports.

Assignment #1
Two members of the group make a presentation discussing our work with Community Media and comparing and contrasting elements of the report.

The Council of Europe has recently released a study of community media that treats it as a “Third Sector”. The report, titled, Promoting Social Cohesion: The Role of Community Media, by Peter Lewis, can be downloaded as a PDF at this address:
http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/media/MC-S-MD/H-Inf(2008)013_en.pdf


Assignment #2
Two members of the group make a report on the potential of new citizen and activist on-line media tools for strategic communications purposes.



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Current Assignments

Primary competencies:
Media and Community Building, Communications Policy and Developing a Media Strategy.

Below are the activities I would like participants to undertake for Tactical Media. They are an updating of the criteria in the Tactical project outline.

• Actively engage in the social networking experiments undertaken by Tactical Media

• A community based media project

• Research and writing

• Engagement with the on-line presences of Tactical Media

Theory work [all papers are a minimum of 5 double spaced pages]:

• One paper defining and discussing Community Media, key references the text Community Media and What’s Going on in Community Media, and other references that you identify and choose to use.

• One paper on Communications Policy that picks out and issues [net neutrality for example] and discusses it while placing it within an outline of the process of communication policy formation at the local, state and federal level. Key references will be identified, starting with the Benton Communications Policy headlines.

• One paper exploring some aspect of citizen media, citizen engagement, activist media strategic communications and use of media for empowerment.

• One strategic communications outline and plan for one of your projects.

What you have to do to demonstrate these competencies.
• Prepare and share the short definitions listed in this syllabus
• Complete the research assignments and make them available on and the Tactical Media blog.
• Participate in the on-line discussions and activities.
• Contribute to the on-line experiments and projects that fit your competencies.
• Actively use the Tactical Media Blog.

Security Alert

'Experimental' security fix is malware, Microsoft says: Scammers are sending out phoney emails
that claim to include critical Windows security alerts, Microsoft warned last Monday. The fake alerts
describe themselves as part of a new "experimental private version of an update for all Microsoft
Windows OS users," Microsoft said in a note on the scam, posted Monday. [13 October 2008;
Source: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=009117078&in
tsrc=hm_list

Just wanted to pass this along to you all.

Thanks,

Aaron Stenton

short definitions % Media terms

Community Media: Community Media is inherent to community issues and dedicated to community building by allowing community members to find solutions to problems encountered within and create opportunities to develop and prosper the community. Community Media has for a purpose creating ties between different members of the community through communication and community reaching by using Public Access TV and radio station and Internet.

Participatory Media: Participatory media is an active social Media that allows people to create and consume media. The Revolution of Media put in place accessible technologies and platforms that allowed users to step little further and not limit them to receive but to also participate in delivering messages.

Citizen Media: Citizen Media is Media produced by private non professional journalist citizens. It uses different forms of Media Production like Blogs, Vlogs, Pod casts, Wikis, forums, Participatory video etc and distributed via Public Access TV and Radio Stations, Internet.

Citizen’s Media: Citizen’s Media is when Media content is created and controlled by citizens. Citizen’s Media allow people to control and voice their opinions and help communities getting together. Content isn’t subject to editing and mostly emotionally driven. Citizen’s media is broader, open, and produced at low cost.

Development Media: Development Media is information and knowledge brought by Media, aiming at developing a critical thinking and encouraging the use of technology to enable independents Media to reach, empower and engage people in matter that affects them to establish a democratic society.

Democratic Media: Democratic Media drives its origin from the fact that the coverage of Media to important issues is bias and the lack of an open none influenced Media. Because Media plays a crucial role in shaping people’s opinion, it can influence their decisions, and favors a group of people over another. Democratic Media has for purpose bringing Democracy to people by promoting an open access to a diverse media sources allowing citizens to make informed decisions.

FCC open meeting Oct, 2008

FCC Open Meeting (Oct)
Open meeting scheduled for Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Nashville, Tennessee.

Any Opinions on This Matter?

Not sure if everybody has seen this yet or not, but those of you who use their Umass Student Email, should have received this. If not, I have posted it here for everybody to see.

Aaron Stenton

MEMORANDUM

To: The University Community

From: Chancellor J. Keith Motley

Date: October 3, 2008
Subject: Fiscal Challenges

As many of you may have learned from the media over the past weeks, Massachusetts is facing serious fiscal challenges due to a softening economy and slowing revenue collections, which have fallen well short of state budget projections. As a university that receives substantial funding from the state, the University of Massachusetts Boston will be required to share in the solution to this difficult fiscal problem.

This morning I met with my leadership team to begin the discussion about how we as a university community can best prepare for and address the looming funding cuts, and next week I will meet with University of Massachusetts President Jack Wilson to discuss system-wide concerns and possible courses of action. These discussions will continue in the coming weeks as we receive additional information from Governor Deval Patrick’s administration and learn more about its planned course of action.

As we move forward, I will provide you with regular updates, and we will engage the entire campus community in an open and fair process toward finding solutions. I want you to know that throughout this fiscal challenge, we will not compromise excellence and will remain determined to keep the University of Massachusetts Boston on its trajectory of progress. I am very optimistic that with your help – faculty, staff, and students – we will succeed.

CPCS Academic Calendar- Fall 08

Academic Calendar
College of Public and Community Service
Fall 2008
Everything you need to know about CPCS from Reistration to completing Competencies

Technology convergence brings value to the product (T-Mobile G1)

Google's first Android phone(HTC Dream) goes on sale in the U.S. on T-Qnetwork on October 22. The G1 features a touch-screen interface, a qWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi, 3G, GPS, a music player, and support for third-party applications. The selling prices for T-Mobile G1 is going to be $179 with a two-year service contract.

No Local Election Coverage

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080713-no-local-election-coverage-on-tv-no-problem-says-fcc.html

Thank You Jason!





Aaron Stenton