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Class Discussion for 9/24/2009

Boyle

Questions
-What do community ty producers do?
-What impact does technology have on form of tv activism?
-Role of public access?
-How does video replace dominant form of tv?
-What does video provide us with?

Points
-Process, not product
-Now project-information reduction
-Change in purpose, loss of personal contact
-Call to action
-Longer in publications-look for larger meaning

Critiques
-Activists issues doe recieve coverage
-Conservative blindspot
-Focus on activism draws attention away from larger media ecology

Halleck

Questions
-How can we provide an authentic for of media?
-What is our technology?
-What is their technology?
-Who is included in "our"?
-Is more of the same really more?

Points
-Process itself is powerful
-Call to action-commercial free-tv
-We crave "authentic" media
-"In touch with everyday lives of people"

Critiques
-Paranoia? Are the mass media really out to get us?
-Would she like contemporary tv with all its new choices?
-Discounts value of entertainment?
-Overly prescriptive