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Reading group reconvenes – this time with readings

Andrew Ó Baoill — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:59:29 +0000

Paul has the announcement on Media Geek – the first meeting (for this year) of our reading group on participatory media will be this Thursday, 7pm, in the meeting room at the back of Guiliani’s. We’ll start with some excerpts from Downing’s Radical Media. All are welcome, and we’ll be discussing where we want this to go over the next year or so. We may even grab a beer (or beverage of your choice) after the formal meeting and continue with some informal discussion. I hope to see some of you there! (If you need copies of the readings, or want to know more about exactly what excerpts we will be using, send me an email – same goes, of course, for any related questions.)

Micro-radio talk

Andrew Ó Baoill — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:19:56 +0000

The participatory media reading group at the University of Illinois will host a talk by Pete Tridish of the Prometheus Radio Project on March 8, at 4:30pm. Prometheus Radio Project is a collective of radio activists that serves as a micro-radio resource center and public interest advocate on micro-radio issues. Urbana is shortly to have its own licensed low power (LPFM) community radio station, WRFU.

All are welcome, and we particularly invite those who are looking for an introduction to micro-radio and LPFM.

WHEN: March 8, 2005. 4:30p.m.
WHERE: Room 302, Architecture Building (608 E. Lorado Taft, Champaign)
WHO: Pete Tridish (bio below) of the Prometheus Radio collective
FURTHER DETAILS: Andrew Ó Baoill, andrew [at] funferal.org, 332-3263

Pete Tridish
Pete triDish was a member of the founding collective of Radio Mutiny, 91.3 FM in Philadelphia In 1996, He was an organizer for the station’s demonstrations at Benjamin Franklin’s Printing Press and the Liberty Bell; on both occasions the station broadcast in open defiance of the FCCs’ unfair rules that prohibit low power community broadcasting. He was the organizer and speaker for the Radio Mutiny tour of 25 cities from January to March of 1998, and undertook another 20-city tour in February 1999 with the Prometheus Radio Project. He also worked on the first two microradio conferences on the East Coast –and organized radio barnraisings in 5 communities around the United States. He actively participated in the rulemaking that led up to the adoption of LPFM. He sat on the committee that sponsored the crucial Broadcast Signal Labs study, which proved to the FCC that LPFM would not cause interference. Tridish has helped to build a number of low power radio stations, and provided advice to hundreds. He has done radio trainings in Guatemala, Colombia, Nepal and other countries.He has spoken at colleges, coffee shops, living rooms, and even the CATO Institute. He has been interviewed for several segments on NPR, a number of college, public and pirate radio stations, CNN, for Maximum Rock and Roll, Radio Ink, Radio and Records, Philadelphia City Paper, Baltimore City Paper, Albany Times Union, Philadelphia Inquirer, Freedom Forum, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, the Nation, Talkers Magazine, Washington Post, Broadcasting and Cable, Radio World, Hollywood Reporter, Z Magazine, Paper Tiger TV and other news outlets. He holds a BA in Appropriate Technology from Antioch College.

The participatory media reading group receives support from the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH).

Meeting on weblogs and RSS

Andrew Ó Baoill — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:17:33 +0000

The next meeting of the reading group on participatory media will be this Friday at 6pm. We’ll meet in Crane Alley (Main St., Urbana) upstairs at the back. We’re going to talk about RSS – what it is, how to use it (as a reader and a producer) and swap tips about sources and more. This is part of our continuing series of meetings centred on blogging and online communication. This will be a fairly informal meeting, so we’d welcome additional topics from anyone planning on attending.

First meeting details

Andrew Ó Baoill — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:10:52 +0000

Among the papers that will be discussed this evening (texts not yet available):

Victor Pickard. “Who Governs the Internet? Policy Struggles at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)”
Andrew Ó Baoill. “MoveOn – a postmodern democracy : rethinking public participation in the laptop age”
Sabryna Cornish. Metaphorical Framing in Online Advocacy Web sites: Case Study of Moveon.org

More details later.

If you have a paper you want to present remember to turn up – 6:30, Green St Coffee House (the room at the back).

Update 2004-09-11 12:42: Shoshana Magnet also presented a piece, on body images (able-bodiness, gender, race etc.) in advertisements in computer magazines. Texts of the various papers are not yet available but may be posted here later.

Meeting: 10th Sept., 6pm

Andrew Ó Baoill — Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:37:47 +0000

The first meeting of the reading group on participatory media will take place on 10th September, 2004, at 6pm. [Venue TBA shortly].

This meeting will provide an opportunity for students and others to present their works in progress. In particular, it will provide a ‘dry-run’ for those presenting at AoIR (Association of Internet Researchers) in Sussex later in the month. This meeting is being run jointly with the IPRH reading group on cyber studies.

If you would like to present work at the meeting, please email me details (your name, title of piece, copy of text if possible) in advance, to be posted here. We will try to accommodate all those who attend, but priority at this meeting will be given to those attending AoIR, and those who provide advance notice.

Check back here soon for details of the pieces to be presented….

New sub-site – IPRH reading group

Andrew Ó Baoill — Tue, 13 Apr 2004 23:37:23 +0000

I’ve put together a new site for the reading group in participatory media that I’ll be starting in the Fall semester. There’s little on it at the moment, and it’s still a bit rough, but it will eventually include a schedule of events, a list of readings (and copies of some), and hopefully some discussions. It’s fairly open-ended at the moment – it would be nice if some people who can’t attend on campus could take some part in the group through using the site, though this will by necessity be somewhat limited in form.

Reading group in participatory media

Andrew Ó Baoill — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:36:08 +0000

I’ve just received word that my proposal for a reading group in participatory media has been granted support by the IPRH (Illinois program for research in the humanities). Yay! We’ll be starting the in the Fall semester, so there’s a bit of time left to plan what exactly to do with it. If you’re around Chambana and interested in taking part let me know and I’ll keep you in the loop. Also, any ideas or suggestions of possible readings will be appreciated.