http://www.feliciasullivan.net/mediamix exploring the syngergy between media, technology, communication and community. Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:11:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What does political participation look like? How is participatory democracy different than civic engagement? What sorts of environments foster and grow the ability to be politically engaged? How does power operate in a participatory setting? What role can community media environments play in increasing the political participation of marginalized groups? Can new media and communication ... http://www.feliciasullivan.net/mediamix/?p=163 Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Fe4m7NLj4 Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Spj80kJyQ Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqs58HVzzMA http://www.feliciasullivan.net/mediamix/?p=162 Since the entrance of tools like YouTube and Vimeao and other Internet based communications I hear folks say "why do we need community media?"  "Is PEG access really necessary?"  "Why should we support public media, hasn't the Internet solved all of our woes?"  While it is true that there is ... http://www.feliciasullivan.net/mediamix/?p=161 Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks? You can use this tool to calculate an estimate of cost and return on investment for the recruitment and fundraising efforts of your staff in social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace. It works sort of like an online mortgage ... http://www.feliciasullivan.net/mediamix/?p=160 Questions: What sorts of ownership and regulatory schemes best serve both the market and the the public? How do you ensure a range of public uses centered around free speech and access coupled with ownership concerns around innovation, privacy, profit, competition? How do the market, the state, and the public interact within ... http://www.feliciasullivan.net/mediamix/?p=159 What can be done to aid researchers, advocates, and activists in producing, finding, and mobilizing relevant research and data? What can be done to facilitate the analysis of reform activities and strategies, and support the growth of broader conceptual frameworks and linkages between issues? What would a robust knowledge ... http://www.feliciasullivan.net/mediamix/?p=158 I'm working as a research assistant for Michael Johnson who has just transplanted himself from Carnegie Mellon.  One of the project he is collaborating on is "Footprints" which looks at how to use a co2 personal consumption / emission widget to enliven person change.  There seems to be some useful ... http://www.feliciasullivan.net/mediamix/?p=157 I’ve been skeptical against the Open Source Software producers community since years, skeptical against this white, middle-class, male students and engineers. For me this user/producer group is a club, which includes those who have enough time resources to create social capital through peer recognition by working on technologically oriented projects. ... http://www.feliciasullivan.net/mediamix/?p=156 We live in a political economy that has it exactly backwards. We believe that our natural world is infinite, and therefore that we can have an economic system based on infinite growth. But since the material world is finite, it is based on pseudo-abundance. And then we believe that we should introduce ... http://www.feliciasullivan.net/mediamix/?p=155 There are lots of good ideas surfacing through this discussion on the iDC list. I post here in full his response: "After reading Sobol and Waxman, I thought I would chime in.  So far, I find this list incredibly useful to my own work and am really enjoying the discussions.  ... http://www.feliciasullivan.net/mediamix/?p=154