media
05 Oct 2011
NAMAC Policy News Roundup
Each month, NAMAC will look back at the last few weeks for a quick overview of some of the stories we've been watching. We hope you'll find them interesting, too.
September started off with a bang as the Department of Justice moved to block the AT&T / T-Mobile merger.
29 Jul 2010
USC Intellectual Property & Technology Law Clinic Wins Copyright Law Exemption on Behalf of Filmmaker
A team of USC Law students from the USC Intellectual Property and Technology Clinic has helped secure an exemption that will allow documentary filmmakers to use material contained on DVDs and other sources that were previously off limits.
03 Jun 2010
The STEAM Movement: It's About More Than Hot Air
Arguably one of the biggest movements in education over the last decade is what is more commonly referred to as STEM education.
11 May 2010
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Effective Digital Media Use in the K-12 Classroom
I recently completed an independent study for the end of my graduate school career that examined current trends in media arts and media literacy education in the United States.
28 Aug 2009
What does CommonWealth look like?
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.
27 Aug 2009
Sharing the Wealth - by Wendy Levy, Director of Creative Programming at Bay Area Video Coalition
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.
25 Aug 2009
Thursday dinners and Friday tours - reserve your spot now!
Reserve your spot in a Thursday evening dine-around or Friday afternoon tour online now before you arrive at the Conference in Boston.
20 Aug 2009
NAMAC in Boston - by James Nadeau of Big RED & Shiny
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.
