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CommonWealth functioned like a primer on telecommunications policy challenges like net neutrality, broadband and arts stimulus while it also provided navigational systems and mappings of digital media, social media, and new ways to think about outcomes in media arts funding.

The commons describes a social practice that unleashes people’s capacity to create things together and take their lives and livelihood into their own hands. It is a social form that has long lived in the shadows of our market culture, but which is now on the rise.

Just came out of Friday's opening plenary with some interesting discussion on the meaning of Commonwealth and collaborative work.  The plenary, moderated by Valerie Linson of WGBH and led by discussants Kristina Newman-Scott, David Bollier, and Tamara Gould, explored varying and evolving manifestations of Commonwealth-- from the new digital commons via the Internet and Web 2.0 to the move away from purely broadcast to a multiplicity of communication outlets. 

I’m heading to Boston on Wednesday for an industry conference called Commonwealth. The conference, co-hosted by the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) and the Center for Independent Documentary, is a place where community media centers, national media arts organizations, university educators, museum presenters, film festivals and archives, youth media programs, public access television stations, national arts policy think tanks, and related groups come together to assess the state of the field, share resources and best practices, inspire each other, build relationships to benefit local neighborhoods, national movements, and global communities.

Commonwealth is officially underway, beginning today with the National Youth Media Summit Report-Out, followed by our Opening Reception at the MIT Museum in Cambridge.

Reserve your spot in a Thursday evening dine-around or Friday afternoon tour online now before you arrive at the Conference in Boston.

So your bags are packed and you're on your way to Boston?  Read this before hopping on that plane, train, or automobile.  

When I first read about this I was pretty skeptical, "of great another conference that purports to think about media and the future," yet as I look through the program I am genuinely curious. And for a bitter person like me, that is saying something.

Online Registration is closing this Friday, August 21st at 5pm PST/8pm EST!  Register before Friday and you'll go through a quick and easy check-in on site.  You'll also receive your conference name badge and all relevant information on the spot.

We're in the midst of a major tectonic shift in the way media is produced and consumed, and the conference will address a lot of the big questions that are being raised by this shift -- questions that I often blog about here.