Feb 2, 2012
Today, national Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) member, Native Public Media (NPM) hosts the first ever Tribal Telecom conference in Tucson, Arizona. At the conference tribal leaders, government officials and entrepreneurs are coming together to share information, explore options, and pursue solutions to advance close the digital divide for tribal communities.
Feb 1, 2012
Last week, Media Literacy Project (MLP) attended the Second Annual Anti-Racism Day at the New Mexico State Legislature. Having served on the planning committee for this day of action, convened by the New Mexico Health Equity Working Group and the Deconstructing Racism Group, MLP had a chance to reflect on the anti-racism aspects of our work. Recently, we have been protecting the cyber frontier...
Jan 31, 2012
by Eyder Peralta / Reposted from NPR.org
Twitter announced, last night, that it now has the ability to block content by country.
This means, for example, that if a Tweet breaks a German law, Twitter can now block it in Germany but leave it up in the rest of the world.
Jan 26, 2012
By Craig Settles / Reposted from the Daily Yonder
Can the strategy that raised enough money for a new Packers' stadium finance a rural broadband network? Communities in Vermont and rural Lancashire, England, have kicked off efforts.
Morry Gash for AP Fans like Steve Gash of DeForest, WI, invested in the Packers to build a new stadium. The same kind of ardor and hustle...
Jan 26, 2012
On Wednesday, January 25th Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) members Steven Renderos (Main Street Project) and amalia deloney (Center for Media Justice) spoke about SOPA & PIPA on First Person Radio. Ernesto Falcon from Public Knowledge (MAG-Net partner) also joined the conversation. Don't worry if you missed it, you can still listen to the broadcast. ...
Jan 23, 2012
I remember when Malkia (Executive Director of Center for Media Justice) took the stage of the National Conference for Media Reform ten years ago to insist that a national media policy network needs to work for justice - that our work must address material needs, engage marginalized populations as leaders, and help redistribute power. This was an important, early intervention to ensure that this...
Jan 23, 2012
By Bob Lefsetz
“Just consume, don’t produce, don’t share.”
The content industries don’t want a distinction between what’s legal and illegal, that bit them in the ass already, with the Home Recording Act of 1992, wherein it was declared legal to make your own mixtapes, even share them. That horrified them. So they changed their game, they decided to go...
Jan 20, 2012
By Joshua Breitbart of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative
A compelling picture is definitely worth the proverbial thousand words for explaining new kinds of wireless networks – especially when that picture appears alongside comprehensible technical information. And yet our choices about visual and written language say a lot about just who we expect to participate in building...
Jan 19, 2012
January 19, 2012 – As well-trafficked websites like Wikipedia and Google faded to black in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), local organizations across the country voiced their opposition to the proposed legislation by joining the strike.
Jan 19, 2012
By Tracy Rosenberg, Media Alliance
Oakland, CA - Across the United States, thousands of websites from large to small, have joined a symbolic day of digital darkness to protest the online anti-piracy bills, SOPA and PIPA, which they claim pose severe threats to online free speech and the open architecture of the Internet.