http://cba.fro.at All contributions of the series "Civilmedia" de-at Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:01:16 CEST http://cba.fro.at/images/cba_logo300px.gif http://cba.fro.at Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema Medien und sozialer Wandel Wie gehen Medien mit sozialen Veränderungen um? Wie gestalten sie sie mit? Wie spiegelt sich kulturelle Diversität in der österreichischen Medienlandschaft? 5. November 2009 18:00 bis 19:30 Uhr JUFA-Gästehaus Salzburg, Josef-Preis-Allee 18, 5020 Salzburg Es diskutieren: Catherine Danielopol-Hofer (BMUKK: EU-Koordination) Gerhard Rettenegger (Chefredakteur ORF Salzburg) Helmut Peissl (Obmann Verband Freier Radios) Darka Grcevic-Golic (Redakteurin Radiodialoge) Moderation: Elke Zobl (Kulturwissenschafterin) Veranstalter: Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur Verband Freier Radios Österreichs <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14791">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14791 2009-11-16 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:10:33 CET Civilmedia This panel proposed by the Community Media Forum Europe aims to discuss current policy issues in European Community Media in the context of the transition to digital broadcasting systems. Short presentations will give on overview of the European contexts - Pieter de Wit, An European Overview of current policy issues - Mojca Plansak, The state of European Digital Radio Research and of national/regional case studies - Christer Hederström & Rui Monteiro, Digital Community Television in the Nordic countries - Helmut Peissl, Community Radio Policy in Austria, Germany and Switzerland - Lawrie Hallett, The Digital Switchover context in the UK - Emmanuel Boutterin, DRM+ and the digital challenge/experimentation in France - Michael R. Kogler, Deputy Department Manager at the Office of the Federal Chancellor, in charge of Media affairs and Information Society and Director the office of the Federal Communication Senate The panel will be introduced by a tribute to two community media activists that left us this year in: 'How we got here: a tribute to the work of Thomas Kupfer and Christoph Lindemeier for Community Media in Europe'. With: Michael Kogler, Pieter de Wit, Mojca Plansak, Christer Hederstrom, Rui Monteiro, Helmut Peissl, Lawrie Hallett, Salvatore Scifo (moderator) <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14792">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14792 2009-11-16 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:10:39 CET Civilmedia Rui Monteiro: The Danish radio- and tv-authority has issued 220 broadcast permits in the new digital terrestial network (DTT) for associations and other non-commercial organisations (out of 306 applicants). Starting date is November 1 this year when the analogue tv-network will be closing down. The organisations will be able to broadcast 20 hours per day on a channel of the first multiplex (MUX1) which is otherwise used by public service television. 15 permits are issued for national coverage and the other 205 for broadcasting in eight regional areas. When issuing the permits the authority has put an emphasis on various program content and in-house productions. On the national scale programs with a broad appeal as well as special programs will be broadcast for example environmental, for women, for elderly and for ethnical groups. The regional broadcasts will have a more local content but still a broad spectrum of various interests including ethnical and religious content. 2010 the organisations with a permit for non-commercial television on DTT will be able to get funding up to DEK 270.038 (€ 36.300) per organisation and permit. Funding comes from the media license fee (former tv license fee). A total of €3,5 million will be allloted for 2010. Denmark is the first EU country to open its DTT-network for non-commercial community televisions. <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14793">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14793 2009-11-16 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:11:33 CET Civilmedia In her research on autonomous media, Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammidi has found, “almost by dint of their existence alone, autonomous media controlled by women with women-defined output offer a challenge to existing hierarchies of power; when these media take up specific issues and campaigns, and align themselves with larger social movements, their political potential is significant”. To further explore such a claim, this panel brings together feminists (of different positions and gender orientations) working in e-zines, comics, magazines, and radio, to find out more about the working practices, innovations and challenges of their work. Panelists include: Trouble X (www.myspace.com/troublextroublex, Germany); Cristiane Tasinato (MigraZine, Austria); Sarah Diehl (www.abortion-democracy.de, www.myspace.com/deproduktion); and Nicole Niedermüller (Radio LoRa,www.lora.ch, Switzerland). This session is organized by Red Chidgey, Rosa Reitsamer and Elke Zobl within the research project "Feminist Media Production in Europe" (www.grassrootsfeminism.net). <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14794">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14794 2009-11-16 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:11:30 CET Civilmedia Ciarán Murray (near media co-op & CMFE) & Dr. Ken Murphy (Nat University Ireland, Maynooth) This presentation will introduce the research and invite comments and observations. The research will examine models for supporting programme production by community radio broadcasters and explore how those models contribute to the capacities and sustainability of the sector. The main countries in question are Ireland, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, New Zealand and US. It is an innovative collaboration between academic and community sector media researchers which will contribute to the mapping of the future development of the community radio sector in Ireland and abroad. The project will detail current models for programme production support in several jurisdictions and evaluate their relevance for programme production support schemes in the Irish context. Drawing on consultative research with the community media sector in Ireland and comparative research on support schemes administered by broadcasting authorities in several comparable jurisdictions, it will provide a critical analysis of the current framework for programme production support in the Irish community sector and compare it with similar initiatives in a range of jurisdictions. The project will inform the debate on models for state programme production support schemes relevant in Ireland and internationally. <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14795">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14795 2009-11-16 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:11:03 CET Civilmedia CMFE (Community Media Forum Europe) is participating to the Council of Europe's Speak out against discrimination Campaign. In particular, we are part of the "Media & Diversity" component of the campaign, working on the topic of proactive policies to promote access for minorities to media professions and productions. The campaign is also encouraging media professionals to produce and disseminate high-quality, professional information promoting intercultural dialogue and the fight against discrimination in Europe. In this workshop we would like to briefly present the campaign and discuss the issues of media / diversity / intercultural dialogue / antidiscrimination, identifying the main principles and values commonly shared by community media at the European level on these issues. In particular, we would like to collect feedback on best practices and policies in community media regarding both recruitment and editorial content, from the point of view of diversity. <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14796">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14796 2009-11-16 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:11:43 CET Civilmedia Participatory culture describes a culture where people act as active contributors and producers of media and cultural productions. The term has often been described in relation to Web 2.0, social networking and new media technology. Henry Jenkins describes a participatory culture as one: 1. With relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement 2. With strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations with others 3. With some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices 4. Where members believe that their contributions matter 5. Where members feel some degree of social connection with one another (at the least they care what other people think about what they have created). (Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century, 2006) Online communities and networks produce content and have come to interact also in offline spaces. In this panel we discuss examples of participatory culture and the use Web 2.0 in building networks, on- and offline interaction, Internet activism, and the potentials, challenges and barriers of participatory culture and technology. For more information on participatory culture see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_culture. Panelists: • Tea Hvala (Slovenia) - Red Dawns festival, blogger and graffiti: http://www.kudmreza.org/rdece/index_eng.html, http://prepih.blogspot.com/ • Alek Ommert (Germany) - Social networking of queer-feminist activism • Sonja Prlic (Austria) – Frontiers, www.frontiers-game.com, 3d online Computer game to the topic of crossing borders Co-organized by Rosa Reitsamer, Red Chidgey and Elke Zobl within the research projects "Feminist Media Production in Europe" and “Young women as producers of cultural spaces” (www.grassrootsfeminism.net). <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14797">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14797 2009-11-16 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:11:57 CET Civilmedia Inclusion of technical innovations into information and communication activity leads to the formation of active group of youngsters in modern Russia. In the first place it reflects on media use. Research data demonstrate the adherence to traditions – television is still the most popular source of information, it was mentioned by 49 % of respondents. But at the same time the figures are symptomatic and expressive – today the Internet as the source has almost the same rate of popularity – 48 %. Taking into consideration the scope of computer technologies' penetration, the growth of their popularity among users and the high level of adaptability of new generation to technological innovations it is worthy to assume that young people in near future could form active social groups and communities and realize social activity using the possibility of Internet sphere. The shift in this direction has place but it is slowed down by several factors. <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14798">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14798 2009-11-16 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:11:52 CET Civilmedia Internet and mobile media give new opportunities for religious minorities activity in Russia, especially when religious freedom is more and more restricted and the access to traditional media is more and more limited. The activity of religious minorities in Russia and is very much determined by three major factors: relations of the minority with the government (state authorities), with civil society and with other religions. Since religious minorities direct influence to "decision makers" is very limited, they use new media - mostly Internet-based - to be heard and understood, to draw the attention of the whole society to the problems in this area. According to surveys, conducted in Moscow State University, Keston Institute, SOVA Center and other research centers, subjects, addresses and forms of human rights activity vary very much from one minority to other. And the national media coverage of their life, according to surveys, is proportional to their "obedience" to the government. This paper is focused on the media activity of most influent religious minorities in Russia - Muslims, Jews, Catholics and Protestants. Despite on the common background for human rights activity - first of all, the right to believe, to worship and witness - the "profiles" of religious minorities new media usage and human rights activity are very different. <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14799">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14799 2009-11-16 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:11:53 CET Civilmedia "Welcome to Salzburg" is a project that we see as an example of "social innovation" A group of 10 women who immigrated to Salzburg from diverse places (Balkan, Turkey, Mexico/US, Philippines, Russia, Turkmenistan)have formed an editorial team. Since June 09 they are regularly producing radio magazines in 5-languages (!) for neo-inhabitants of Salzburg. The neo-journalists have lived here a longer time and know what it’s like to start at the beginning and which information is necessary. Together they choose the topics, do interview and produce the 1-hour-magazines. Presentation of the project by Tuba Islam, Haydee Jimenez and Maria-Fe Paco-Ortner. further infos: http://willkommen.radiofabrik.at <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14747">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14747 2009-11-12 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:12:25 CET Civilmedia <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14749">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14749 2009-11-12 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:04:35 CET Civilmedia This presentation examines the prospects of mobile phones and other forms of social media such as Facebook, YouTube, Demotix, Twitter and blogs that foster the possibility of more democratic practices in the countries where the suppressive communities are embracing these tools to spread their message across over. This paper suggests that mobile phones are not only incredible medium of communication and information sharing but are also multiple service tools with significant functions. Thus by examining the exclusive role of mobile phones in the recent elections in Iran, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Malaysia this article propose in future the electoral process particularly in the oppressive regimes have to face a strong opposition in case of systematic rigging. As Toni Ahonen, has called the mobile phone the “7th Mass Media” (Quoted by Verclas and Mechael, 2008:10).This paper finds despite the crackdown of Iranian government thousand of images, short video clips and eyewitness commentary reached to millions of viewers and audiences worldwide through social media sites that demonstrates its fastest speed and unimaginable growing power. This paper also explores that the notion of ‘Twitter Revolution’ cannot be justified as it was mostly used by Iranians living outside the country. Perhaps it was an attempt to boost ‘Twitter’ as competitive product in new media market. This article finds that few mainstream media organisations news coverage of Iranian elections has once again have raised concerns about fairness and accuracy. Finally this article maintain that it’s too early to embrace the concept of social media as being ‘warning signs’ to power-elites since there is reliable evidence of new mergers, taking over social networking sites by media conglomerates and also the build-in technological mechanism for control, authenticity and credibility of social media are few central features that have opened a new debate about its impartial stance while operating under authoritative government and reporting sensitive issues. <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14750">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14750 2009-11-12 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:05:29 CET Civilmedia The presentation will introduce one of the best practice project of Hungarian campus radios, detailing structure, programmes and self-promotion. Berzsenyi Radio provides not only an effective practical basis for students of Communication and Media Science Department but also provides a free access for voluntary students who want to share and realize their ideas. The “Voice of University” broadcasts via air (FM 98.8 MHz) and via internet (www.berzsenyiradio.hu). This year nearly 60 students perform all kind of tasks in relation to radio, two lecturer and a technican give only a consultative and technical background of this work. Awards from professional jury and several valuable feedback from the labour market give proof of effective work and success. <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14751">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14751 2009-11-12 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:05:11 CET Civilmedia As valuable as unpaid citizen journalism may be: detailed inquiries and editorial work become impossible without corresponding compensation for the time it takes. Community funding can be an interesting option in strengthening the relationship between media and consumers. Experimental projects and considerations are still in their early stages, nevertheless the clock keeps ticking. The future of quality journalism can only be guaranteed through a mixed finance model - where community funding and other innovative ideas could lead to new streams of income. The workshop will give an overview of current running projects, and wishes to develop new concepts for future activities. German: So wertvoll unbezahlter BürgerInnenjournalismus auch sein mag: ausführliche Recherchen und redaktionelle Arbeit werden ohne entsprechende Entlohnung auf Dauer nicht möglich sein. Community Funding ist auch eine interessante Option, die Beziehung zwischen Medien und KonsumentInnen zu stärken. Experimentelle Projekte und Überlegungen sind noch im Anfangsstadium, doch die Zeit drängt immer mehr. Die qualitätsjournalistische Zukunft wird nur durch einen neuen Finanzierungsmix sichergestellt werden. Community Funding und andere innovative Ideen können dabei zu neuen Einnahmequellen führen. Der Workshop wird einen Überblick über laufende Projekte geben und will Konzeptideen für zukünftige Aktivitäten entwickeln. Moderation: David Röthler In Kooperation mit Elevate 2009 www.elevate.at <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14752">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=14752 2009-11-12 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:05:28 CET Civilmedia Civilmedia 08 – „Cultures – Participaton – Dialogue“: The Civilmedia is an annual international UnConference, organised by Radiofabrik Salzburg in co-operation with VFRÖ. This year it took place at the end of the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008” from 4th to 6th of December. In bringing together international and national alternative media practitioners, researchers, policy makers, activists, and community development workers, Civilmedia08 reviewed the importance of community media and Web 2.0 for intercultural dialogue in Europe. More details at. http://www.civilmedia.eu/ Contribution: Community Television & User Generated Contents - Austrian Concepts from past to future (Alf Altendorf) Focused on my personal experiences I wanna draw a line from historic ambitions during the 1990´s, real projects done during the last 10 years to perspectives for further developments. Instead of telling theory, this presentation will feature 3 conceptional videos (total length 25´, one a "civilmedia exclusive" and never before shown to public audience) <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11386">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11386 2008-12-06 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:03:49 CET Civilmedia Civilmedia 08 – „Cultures – Participaton – Dialogue“: The Civilmedia is an annual international UnConference, organised by Radiofabrik Salzburg in co-operation with VFRÖ. This year it took place at the end of the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008” from 4th to 6th of December. In bringing together international and national alternative media practitioners, researchers, policy makers, activists, and community development workers, Civilmedia08 reviewed the importance of community media and Web 2.0 for intercultural dialogue in Europe. More details at. http://www.civilmedia.eu/ Contribution: Radiodialoge - Stimmen der Vielfalt (Podiumsgespräch) Radiodialoge - Stimmen der Vielfalt ist ein Projekt des Verbandes Freier Radios in Österreich zum Jahr des interkulturellen Dialoges. Bei 6 Freien Radios wurden interkulturelle Redaktionen aufgebaut, die seither gemeinsam 48 Radiomagazine produzierten. Diese werden österreichweit von allen Freien Radios ausgestrahlt und sind online auf http://www.radiodialoge.at nachhörbar. In diesem Podiumsgespräch werden die Redakteurinnen und Redakteure ihre Erfahrungen in den Redaktionen und das Projekt als Ganzes diskutieren. <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11387">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11387 2008-12-06 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:03:10 CET Civilmedia Civilmedia 08 – „Cultures – Participaton – Dialogue“: The Civilmedia is an annual international UnConference, organised by Radiofabrik Salzburg in co-operation with VFRÖ. This year it took place at the end of the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008” from 4th to 6th of December. In bringing together international and national alternative media practitioners, researchers, policy makers, activists, and community development workers, Civilmedia08 reviewed the importance of community media and Web 2.0 for intercultural dialogue in Europe. More details at. http://www.civilmedia.eu/ Contribution: Participatory Media and discourses of quality (Nico Carpentier) The participatory process and its outcomes are sometimes linked to amateurism and the lack of quality. Often, professional media production, aesthetic and narrative quality standards still prevail. This presentation starts with a reception analysis of YouTube-like video clips, to show how audience members discredit these (indeed poorly-made) short films on the basis of mainstream media quality standards. In a second part, two alternative models for quality (within participatory media) are developed. First, democratic quality emphases the importance of the participatory-democratic process as a criterion for quality. Second, negotiated quality looks at the concept of quality itself, detaching it from a canon-based definition. The process of establishing what quality is seen as contextualised dialogue and an intrinsic part of the participatory-democratic process. Pointpoint presentation Participatory media and discourses of quality @ UnConference CivilMedia08, Salzburg Nico Carpentier http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~ncarpent/temp/Unconference_Salzburg2008_Carpentier.pdf Chapter "Coping with the agoraphobic media professional. A typology of journalistic practices reinforcing democracy and participation" by Nico Carpentier (this chapter gives an overview of the 12 dimensions of democratic quality) from Reclaiming the media. Communication rights and democratic media roles. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/pdfs/9781841501635.157.pdf Chapter "The reception of the “produsers’” films on a participatory website. Ordinary young people and the politics of banality" by Nico Carpentier (this chapter analyses the focusgroup discussions on the 16plus films) from Young Citizens, ICT’s and Democracy. <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11356">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11356 2008-12-05 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:04:05 CET Civilmedia Civilmedia 08 – „Cultures – Participaton – Dialogue“: The Civilmedia is an annual international UnConference, organised by Radiofabrik Salzburg in co-operation with VFRÖ. This year it took place at the end of the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008” from 4th to 6th of December. In bringing together international and national alternative media practitioners, researchers, policy makers, activists, and community development workers, Civilmedia08 reviewed the importance of community media and Web 2.0 for intercultural dialogue in Europe. More details at. http://www.civilmedia.eu/ Contribution: The Intercultural Community Media: Planning for Diversity Advantage (Rui Monteiro) Community Media should embrace diversity because therein lie opportunity, resources and advantage. Diversity is not something merely to be tolerated because this is the right thing to do or because our lives will be less troublesome. Community Media need to ground cultural diversity in both individual autonomy, collective self-organisation and presence within the local public sphere. There is no uniform model, nor should there be, but we need steps towards an intercultural policy in the Community Media. The most important thing of all is to start...... <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11357">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11357 2008-12-05 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:04:22 CET Civilmedia Civilmedia 08 – „Cultures – Participaton – Dialogue“: The Civilmedia is an annual international UnConference, organised by Radiofabrik Salzburg in co-operation with VFRÖ. This year it took place at the end of the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008” from 4th to 6th of December. In bringing together international and national alternative media practitioners, researchers, policy makers, activists, and community development workers, Civilmedia08 reviewed the importance of community media and Web 2.0 for intercultural dialogue in Europe. More details at. http://www.civilmedia.eu/ Contribution: DIY Feminist Action!(Red Chidgey,Elke Zobl, Nina Nijsten, Anna Voswinckel) Summary: Since the beginning of 2008, Elke Zobl (Austria) and Red Chidgey (UK) have been working on a book anthology documenting the zines, art and activism of DIY and queer feminists internationally. With a visual introduction to DIY Feminism by Nina Nijsten (Belgium), this presentation will cover some of the working practices involved with our cross-border collaborations, including a zine wiki, on-line book tools, and the interactive site Grassroots Feminism: Transnational archives, resources and communities (www.grassrootsfeminism.net), programmed with the open-source Social Software (Drupal). The presentation will be followed by an open discussion to share experiences and suggestions! <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11358">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11358 2008-12-05 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:04:17 CET Civilmedia Civilmedia 08 – „Cultures – Participaton – Dialogue“: The Civilmedia is an annual international UnConference, organised by Radiofabrik Salzburg in co-operation with VFRÖ. This year it took place at the end of the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008” from 4th to 6th of December. In bringing together international and national alternative media practitioners, researchers, policy makers, activists, and community development workers, Civilmedia08 reviewed the importance of community media and Web 2.0 for intercultural dialogue in Europe. More details at. http://www.civilmedia.eu/ Contribution: Three years of full-time Community Radio in the UK (2005-2008): challenges and opportunities (Salvatore Scifo) Full time Community Radio was introduced as a separate tier of radio broadcasting in the UK with the Community Radio Order 2004. Three years after the release of the first full time licence the number of stations is approaching 200. Based on an ongoing PhD research on the development of community radio in the UK since 1997, the presentation will briefly give an overview of the policy contexts in which the sector emerged (Social, Cultural and Media), then proceeding to discuss some of the main challenges and opportunities that are characterising the sector by the end of 2008 and how it relates with recent policy developments at the European stage. <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11359">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11359 2008-12-05 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:04:27 CET Civilmedia Civilmedia 08 – „Cultures – Participaton – Dialogue“: The Civilmedia is an annual international UnConference, organised by Radiofabrik Salzburg in co-operation with VFRÖ. This year it took place at the end of the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008” from 4th to 6th of December. In bringing together international and national alternative media practitioners, researchers, policy makers, activists, and community development workers, Civilmedia08 reviewed the importance of community media and Web 2.0 for intercultural dialogue in Europe. More details at. http://www.civilmedia.eu/ Contribution: Panel discussion "European Community Media Policy" The panel will discuss recent developments in European Community Media Policy, including: 1) the opportunities and challenges that arise from the approval of the EU Parliament resolutions on Community Media and, partly, Media Pluralism; 2) the opportunities that might arise from the approval of the Draft Declaration on Community Media discussed at CDMC committee at the Council of Europe, as well as the findings emerging from P.Lewis research on community media and social inclusion; 3) the emerging findings from the comparative research done by Helmut Peissl and Otto Tremetzberger in five EU countries; 4) issues and opportunities emerging from current community media practices (AMARC) at the global and European level, also with reference to the recent AMARC conference in Montreal and the 25 years of AMARC declaration issued there; 5) national and regional perspectives in the European context. Moderator: Salvatore Scifo, European Union Institute, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey / Community Media Forum Europe Panelists: - Dr. Patrick Segalla, member of the Office of the Austrian Federal Chancellor, with responsibility on Media Affairs and Information Society matters, and Chair of the Group of Specialists on Public Service Media in the Information Society (MC-S-PSM) at the Council of Europe; - Mr. Peter Lewis, Senior Lecturer in Community Media at London Metropolitan University, author of several publications, including 'Promoting Social Cohesion. The Role of Community Media', published by the Council of Europe earlier this year; - Mr. Helmut Peissl, Vice President of the Community Media Forum Europe and Chairman of the Austrian Free Radio Federation; - Mrs. Nadia Bellardi, Board Member of AMARC-Europe (World Association of Community Broadcasters); - Mrs. Karin Resetarits, via videomessage, rapporteur for the motion on Community Media at European Parliament, European Member of Parliament (Liberal-Democrats group, Austria) <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11360">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11360 2008-12-05 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:05:07 CET Civilmedia Civilmedia 08 – „Cultures – Participaton – Dialogue“: The Civilmedia is an annual international UnConference, organised by Radiofabrik Salzburg in co-operation with VFRÖ. This year it took place at the end of the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008” from 4th to 6th of December. In bringing together international and national alternative media practitioners, researchers, policy makers, activists, and community development workers, Civilmedia08 reviewed the importance of community media and Web 2.0 for intercultural dialogue in Europe. More details at. http://www.civilmedia.eu/ Contribution: Civil media: For, within, or against capitalism? Towards a theory of critical media (Christian Fuchs, Marisol Sandoval) In this contribution, we warn against being too optimistic about the actual democratic effects of notions like "civil media", "Web 2.0", "alternative media", "grassroots media", "participatory media", or "participatory culture". Applying a critical political economy approach, some data on the actual structure of contemporary media and culture are presented. We argue that given this structure, notions like "participatory culture" have an ideological character if they overlook class relationships and capitalist ownership structures. As an alternative concept, we suggest the notion of alternative media as critical media. For defining critical media, we need to know how to understand the notion of critique. For doing so, a critical theory of society is needed. We suggest that civil media should always be analyzed in the context of capitalist society, i.e. the role they play within capitalism as potential stabilizing and destabilizing factors, and that ownership questions of the entire media industry are of central importance in analyzing civil media. Our approach wants to contribute to the social theory foundations of discussions on alternative media and civil media. Christian Fuchs is associate professor for information and communication technologies & society at the University of Salzburg's ICT&S Center. His fields of research are: social theory, critical theory, critique of the political economy of the media and communication, ICTs and society. He is author of the book "Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age" (Routledge 2008, see http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/i&s.html ). Website: http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at Marisol Sandoval is doctoral student and research assistant at the University of Salzburg's ICT&S Center. Her master thesis focused on the topic "Alternative (Online-) Medien in kritischen Gesellschaftstheorien" (Alternative (Online-) Media in critical social theories"). Her fields of resarch are: critical theory, critical media theory, alternative media. LINK TO PRESENTATION: http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/CivilMediaCapitalismFuchsSandoval.pdf <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11316">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11316 2008-12-04 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:02:13 CET Civilmedia Civilmedia 08 – „Cultures – Participaton – Dialogue“: The Civilmedia is an annual international UnConference, organised by Radiofabrik Salzburg in co-operation with VFRÖ. This year it took place at the end of the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008” from 4th to 6th of December. In bringing together international and national alternative media practitioners, researchers, policy makers, activists, and community development workers, Civilmedia08 reviewed the importance of community media and Web 2.0 for intercultural dialogue in Europe. More details at. http://www.civilmedia.eu/ Contribution: Free Media! (Debi Withers) This panel will look at the example of free/ easily accessible media economies in the distribution of ideas and ideologies about migration and asylum in the UK, exploring how they are e/affectively countered by participatory Web 2.0 tools used by anti-deportation organisers. While free daily newspapers such the Metro (who have an estimated readership of 1.5 million a day) are increasingly including right wing articles that perpetuate the idea of the illegal worker and the 'unwanted visitor' trespassing on British shores (Metro, 23/9/08) and mainstream TV programmes which are funded by the UK Border Agency are doing sympathetic fly on the wall documentaries about UK Border Officers (Border Patrol, Sky TV, 2008); no borders groups and anti-deportation campaigners are drawing on participatory Web 2.0 tools to challenge these messages. Access to user friendly media tools that combine different media strategies (video, sound, image, minute-by-minute blog updates) are an effective and, importantly, affective tool in the armoury of anti-deportation organisers. These tools offer the possibility of personalising the relation between demonised groups and individuals in society (which asylum seekers are one), creating counter affective strategies that disrupt this depersonalisation in mainstream media. D.i.y media uncompromisingly offers the potential for people to tell their own stories in their own voices and not be subject to co-option by a hegemonic media that in no way cares about their interests. As groups become ever more adept at conveying their anti-racist messages to the public (which include key political and media actors) these participatory web tools offer the potential to fragment the homogeneity of representation in the British media that overwhelmingly supports the inhumane deportation regime which deports and imprisons thousands of vulnerable people every year - whilst also gleaning huge profits from it. In terms of departure, these tools offer the potential to show how easy it is for people to do it themselves and therefore not rely on dominant media voices. d.i.y reporting, within these current technological conditions, are sophisticated enough, personal enough and user friendly enough, to disrupt mainstream media production and present a different, more e/affective means of communication. In so doing, they offer new opportunities for hope and interconnection. This presentation will draw on analysis of the Metro newspaper, and anti-deportation campaigns such as Keep Babi safe in Cardiff and Prossy Kakooza must stay! Both campaigns deploy these combined media strategies in the methods I describe. Details of the campaigns can be found here: http://noborderswales.wordpress.com/campaign-to-stay/keep-babi-safe-in-cardiff/, and here: http://www.mccmanchester.co.uk/prossy.htm debi withers is a member of the feminist activist forum www.feministactvistforum.org.uk, no borders south wales http://noborderswales.wordpress.com and the trans-global no borders network. <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11315">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11315 2008-12-04 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:02:51 CET Civilmedia Civilmedia 08 – „Cultures – Participaton – Dialogue“: The Civilmedia is an annual international UnConference, organised by Radiofabrik Salzburg in co-operation with VFRÖ. This year it took place at the end of the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008” from 4th to 6th of December. In bringing together international and national alternative media practitioners, researchers, policy makers, activists, and community development workers, Civilmedia08 reviewed the importance of community media and Web 2.0 for intercultural dialogue in Europe. More details at. http://www.civilmedia.eu/ Contribution: Internet Journalism and Education in Turkey (Tülay Atay-Avsar) <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11317">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11317 2008-12-04 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:02:09 CET Civilmedia Civilmedia 08 – „Cultures – Participaton – Dialogue“: The Civilmedia is an annual international UnConference, organised by Radiofabrik Salzburg in co-operation with VFRÖ. This year it took place at the end of the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008” from 4th to 6th of December. In bringing together international and national alternative media practitioners, researchers, policy makers, activists, and community development workers, Civilmedia08 reviewed the importance of community media and Web 2.0 for intercultural dialogue in Europe. More details at. http://www.civilmedia.eu/ Contribution: Civil Media in Russia: Challenges and Hopes (Victor Khroul) Several basic questions to be answered: Do civil media need civil society for their functioning? Does it exist in Russia? Are civil media possible in contemporary Russian society? To what extend? Is the audience ready to have civic media? Does it have enough opportunities for social control on public and private media? The possibility of civil media and civil journalism have been evidently proved by Anna Politkovskaya. She was an excellent example for all journalists for honest and brave reporting. For civil reporting. As Andrei Sakharov or Alexander Solzhenitsyn were "the conscience of the nation", Anna Politkovskaya, I must say, was considered to be "the conscience of the journalism" in Russia. After her death the dean of Moscow University Journalism Faculty Yassen Zassoursky said: "Our conscience was shot". Challenges and hopes for civil media in Russia Challenges: • Weak and tiny "middle class" • Pressure on the media on different levels • "Indirect" types of censorship • Shortening space for civic initiatives • Poverty, lack of financial resources for independent activity Hopes: • Many channels for learning of what civil media can be (traveling, studying, making personal contacts, open sources for distant education, etc) • Internet as cheap, independent and effective medium. Internet activity in Russia is growing and it is the main hope for the future of civil media in the country. <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11318">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11318 2008-12-04 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:02:32 CET Civilmedia Civilmedia 08 – „Cultures – Participaton – Dialogue“: The Civilmedia is an annual international UnConference, organised by Radiofabrik Salzburg in co-operation with VFRÖ. This year it took place at the end of the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008” from 4th to 6th of December. In bringing together international and national alternative media practitioners, researchers, policy makers, activists, and community development workers, Civilmedia08 reviewed the importance of community media and Web 2.0 for intercultural dialogue in Europe. More details at. http://www.civilmedia.eu/ Contribution: SalaamShalom: Muslims and Jews Talking Together. The world's only in-English Muslim and Jewish radio station. (Shabana Kausar) <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11319">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11319 2008-12-04 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:02:31 CET Civilmedia Civilmedia 08 – „Cultures – Participaton – Dialogue“: The Civilmedia is an annual international UnConference, organised by Radiofabrik Salzburg in co-operation with VFRÖ. This year it took place at the end of the “European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008” from 4th to 6th of December. In bringing together international and national alternative media practitioners, researchers, policy makers, activists, and community development workers, Civilmedia08 reviewed the importance of community media and Web 2.0 for intercultural dialogue in Europe. More details at. http://www.civilmedia.eu/ Contribution: Das Jahr des Interkulturellen Dialogs in Österreich - zwischen Anspruch und Erfolg (Podiumsdiskussion). Ein Rückblick auf das EU-Jahr und seine Umsetzung in Österreich mit: Petja Dimitrova (IG Bildende Kunst, KünstlerIn mit Arbeitsfokus auf Migration und politischem Antirassistismus) Daiva Döring (Integrationsbeauftragte Stadt Salzburg) Monika Kalista (Leiterin Kulturabteilung Land Salzburg, Vertreterin der LandeskulturreferentInnenen im "Nationalkommitte zum Jahr des Interkulturellen Dialogs 2008") Burkhard Landwehr (Angewandte Kulturanalyse, Wissens- und Kulturvermittlung im interkulturellen Kontext; Forschungsarbeiten im Kontext "Kognition und soziokulturelle Prozesse", Konkordanzbegleitungen im Rahmen von interkulturellen Werte- und Normenkollisionen, Interkulturelle Mediation. Aktuelle Projekte: Forschungsprojekt "Pro Dialog - Darstellung und Kognition menschlicher Zustände und Prozesse im interkulturellen Kontext". "HEIMAT | BILD - Das Neue, Sonderbare und Rätselhafte einer anderen Heimat" und "WISSEN-VERSTEHEN-DIALOG - Das Empathiespiel aus HEIMAT | BILD" http://www.viertelfestival-noe.at/heimat-bild) Tülay Tuncel (Wiener Intergrationskonferenz) Moderation: Georg Wimmer (Radiofabrik) <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11320">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=11320 2008-12-04 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:02:09 CET Civilmedia Die Radiofabrik organisierte im November die Tagung Tagung "Civilmedia 07 ". Die UnConference: Participation 2.0 thematisierte bereits in ihrer Struktur den Inhalt: Medien als offenes und partizipatives Konzept. Gestaltung der Sendung: Regina Wimmer<br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8746">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8746 2008-02-05 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:01:28 CET Civilmedia The success of the new generation of media technologies – in combination with their presupposed interactive and even participatory nature – feeds the assumption that we are living another new communication revolution. In order to evaluate and value the contemporary (media) transformations, and the possibilities of the (mass) media to contribute to a participatory-democratic culture, we ironically need to ignore the media and their technologies (at least in a first phase) and to focus on the political-ideological processes which provide the discursive context for these media organisations and technologies. Only by taking this long but inevitable detour, it becomes possible to even begin to understand the democratic role(s) of the media and especially participatory media in the 21st century. The conceptual starting point of this presentation is that participation is a politically-ideologically contested notion, and that the role of (participatory) media is intrinsically linked to these debates. For this reason, this presentation reflects on the participation debate, as a condition of possibility for the analysis the media’s role in this debate. The complexity of these participation debates entraps us in a painstaking process of including what is participatory and excluding what is not, a process which is complicated by the fluidity of all key concepts that are involved in this operation. In a second part of this presentation we can use these debates on participation (and access and interaction) to develop a first typology of participatory and semi-participatory organisations, which generates a first matrix to map the field of participatory media. But even after having (temporally) fixated and delineated these concepts (for analytical purposes), the diversity that characterises participatory organisations requires to move beyond the mapping exercise. In order to fully grasp the identity of these participatory organisations, a second typology is introduced, this time not aimed at delineating concepts but at diversifying and combining them. In this third part, four different theoretical approaches are combined to provide a (hopefully) increased insight in the world of participatory organisations. Given the diversity in this world, it is argued that the identities of specific organisations are always unique combinations of these four different theoretical approaches. <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8358">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8358 2007-12-20 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:10:46 CET Civilmedia Consolidation of European networks for community radio and television. Presentation at Civilmedia Conference<br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8359">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8359 2007-12-20 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:10:18 CET Civilmedia The Mediation is the Message: Web 2.0 & The client-server State's preemptive strike against P2P Communism Dmytri Kleiner is a USSR-born, Canadian software developer and cultural producer whose work investigates the political economy of cultural production and telecommunications. Currently based in Berlin, he is a co-founder of Telekommunisten, an Anarchist technology collective specializing in telephone and Internet services. http://www.telekommunisten.net<br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8360">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8360 2007-12-20 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:11:15 CET Civilmedia Rui Monteiro: Director of Global Media Aarhus ( Indvandrer TV & Radio Bazar), DK ; Member of the Multicultural European Media Network, OnLIne/More Colour in the Media ; Boardmember of CMFE, Community Media Forum Europe ; Chairman of Nordic Multiethnic Media Association, NORDSAM ; Boardmember of SAML, Association of Community Media in Denmark ; Chairman of Global Citizens Aarhus, DK ;<br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8362">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8362 2007-12-20 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:11:41 CET Civilmedia Panel discussion with Elke Zobl, Red Chidgey, Sonja Eisamann, Stephanie Müller,<br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8363">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8363 2007-12-20 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:11:06 CET Civilmedia Ursula Maier-Rabler from the ICT&S-Center (University of Salzburg) presents the outcomes of the e-participation study. http://www.icts.sbg.ac.at<br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8364">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8364 2007-12-20 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:11:40 CET Civilmedia On the panel: Peter Pilz - (First(?) Austrian politician to start a weblog, Member of Parliament, Die Grünen) Nico Carpentier - (Media Scientist, Brussels) Michaela Mojzis - (Austrian blogging politician, CEO of the Austrian People\'s Party, ÖVP) - (Online-participation from Vienna) Nadia Bellardi - (Media activist, AMARC/CMFE, Switzerland) Heinz Wittenbrink - (teaches Web-Publishing and Online-Journalism at FH Joanneum Graz) Moderation: Thomas Kreiseder (Radio FRO, CMFE, Festival der Regionen OÖ) <br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8365">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8365 2007-12-20 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:11:52 CET Civilmedia Participants: Helmut Peissl (CMFE), Nadia Bellardi (CMFE/AMARC), Christer Hederström (CMFE), Otto Tremetzberger (Freier Rundfunk Freistadt) Moderation: Thomas Kreiseder<br><p> <a href="http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8366">Download this file here</a></p> http://cba.fro.at/show.php?eintrag_id=8366 2007-12-20 Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:11:43 CET Civilmedia