Published on Sunday, March 4 2007
The last two sessions I was able to see at Beyond Broadcast (I had to leave at midday) were panels.
The first was on “Participatory Culture,” moderated by Jesse Walker from Reason magazine, with Kenny Miller from MTV, Elizabeth Osder from Yahoo!, and (via webcam) Arin Crumley from the film Four-Eyed Monsters.
The second was on “Participatory Democracy,” moderated by Drew Clark, from the Center for Public Integrity, with Jennifer Harris from the Center for Digital Democracy, Chuck DeFeo (former eCampaign Manager for Bush-Cheney 2004) from Salem Communications, and Tad Hirsch from the MIT Media Lab.
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Published on Sunday, March 4 2007
The second speaker at Beyon Broadcast 2007 was John Palfrey from the Berkman Center at Harvard Law.
He presented a mind map covering a set of topics, all around the question of whether participatory culture leads to participatory democracy.
I’ll try to reproduce some of the ideas here, but for best effect just watch the movie.
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Published on Saturday, March 3 2007
(Updated again: Jenkins’ own notes on his presentation are here: part one and part two
(Update: The recorded videos from the conference are now available).
Beyond Broadcast 2007 kicked off with a keynote by Henry Jenkins, which was by turns entertaining, upsetting, and thought provoking.
Much of the material was drawn from Convergence Culture in which:
Jenkins argues that the debate over convergence will redefine the face of American popular culture. Industry leaders see opportunities to direct content across many channels to increase revenue and broaden markets. At the same time, consumers envision a liberated public sphere, free of network controls, in a decentralized media environment. Sometimes corporate and grassroots efforts reinforce each other, creating closer, more rewarding relations between media producers and consumers. Sometimes these two forces are at war.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, as a sign of how good the talk was?) I was so busy paying attention most of what I got into my notes were the examples, rather than the questions Jenkins used them to raise – but I’ll try to recreate the as much as I can of the context and the argument here.
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