12:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m.

CC CC Auditorium

Lunch, Campus Center   (or ballroom)

Lunch Forum: “When the Press Becomes a Pipe, Who Controls?”

Co-speakers: Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America;  Casey Lide, Baller Herbst Law Group;  Steve Anderson, COA News; Cable and phone giants want to create tiers of service for delivering content on the Internet, upsetting the concept of “network neutrality.” Legal, technical and First Amendment experts will invite summit collaborators to help define the lines between commercial rights and free-speech obligations, and how municipal ownership of “pipes” could help.

12:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Special registration:

$40 for afternoon;

no food;

Filmmaking track only

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CITIZEN MEDIA FILMMAKING WORKSHOP & FESTIVAL

CONVENERS: Aldon Hynes, Ned Lamont Senate Campaign; Steve Garfield, RocketBoom.com.

As digital video cameras become more popular, as people start taking videos from their cellphones, and as new sites emerge online to distribute these videos, citizen filmmaking is taking off. Many people will be simply sharing home movies. Others, however, will want to create documentaries, political advertisements, and citizen journalism. The Workshop & Festival will celebrate noteworthy citizen filmmaking and provide workshops for those wishing to learn how to become more involved.

4 p.m. – 9 p.m. 

Conference check-in, Campus Center Concourse level

6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

Reception for all conference attendees

7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Buy-your-owner dinner, cafeteria style, in the Blue Wall, with

Friday’s agenda update  from track leaders Christopher Grotke/Lise LePage; Aldon Hynes, Norman Sims, Rob Williams ,  Steve Garfield and others.

7:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.

Conference check-in, Campus Center Concourse level

7:00 a.m.-8 a.m.

Continental breakfast for summit participants
 (Campus Center lower concourse)

8 a.m.- 9:15 a.m.

GENERAL SESSION

CC Reading Room

Report from Thursday’s summit: 

 “Setting the scene: What’s the future of the web and news?”

CONVENERS:  Dale Peskin, The Media Center at API; Lee Rainie, the Pew Project on Internet & Society; Tom Rosenstiel, Project on Excellence in Journalism.

A news-industry  futurist, , an Internet demographics researcher and a key observer and facilitator of online multimedia news trends forecast the next year and the next decades for the Fourth Estate. How should media executives, citizen journalists, political strategists / public officials, educators and technologist prepare and collaborate?

9:15 a.m.-9:30 a.m.

Media Café break

9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.

TRACK FIVE

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Technology – “When Web Data Makes News”

CONVENERS: Adam Clayton Powell III, University of Southern California;  Brant Houston, Investigative Reporters & Editors;  Adrian Holovaty, WashingtonPost.com.

With search engines, data crawlers and memory by the terabyte, it is becoming ever easier to crunch previously unimaginable amounts of data from across the web into useful information. What are the watchdog possibilities – and privacy dangers – for journalists harnessing newly opened information?

10:45 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

Media Café break

11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

TRACK  FIVE

CC Auditorium

 Technology:    “The Maine Blogger: A Case Study of a Blogstorm”

CONVENERS: Robert Cox, Media Bloggers Association; Lance Dutson, Maine Web Report (defendant); Fred Frawley, Preti Flaherty Beliveau & Pachios

(attorney for WKPA); and Greg Herbert, Greenberg Traurig (attorney for Lance

Dutson).

When New York ad agency Warren, Kremer, Paino Advertising filed a seven-figure federal lawsuit against blogger Lance Dutson, an unknown gadfly was

transformed overnight into a First Amendment martyr. When the lawsuit was

withdrawn amidst a withering media campaign organized by the Media Bloggers

Association, the "Maine Blogger" became a cause celebre in the blogosphere.

Join us as we go behind the scenes with the key players to examine the legal

issues raised by the case, the blogstorm which erupted and the implications

for citizen journalists and the businesses and government officials they

cover.

12:15 p.m.-12:30 p.m.

Media Café break

12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

CC 

CC Auditorium

Buffet lunch (CC Auditorium or Campus Center Ballroom)

 “Is Media Performance Democracy’s Critical Issue?”

SPEAKER: Tom Stites, Center for Public Integrity;
 INTRODUCED BY: Chris Peck, Memphis Commercial Appeal.

Thirty years ago, if your policy message was on the three networks, The New York Times or the Washington Post, it spread quickly across America. We are now in an era of micr0-media – blogs, email, dozens of networks and cable channels, multimedia chaos and creativity.  Political strategists who disagree on issues often agree that media structure and performance is now their No. 2 issue.  Has the state of our media become the most important threat to participatory democracy? Why?

2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.

TRACK FIVE

CC Reading Room

 Technology – “News a la Carte – Fracturing The Public Sphere?”

CONVENERS: Holmes Wilson, Participatory Culture Foundation; Thomas Marban, PopUrls.com; Jonathan Dube, CBC.CA (pending).

Consumers can now paste together their version of a news event from multiple sources in seconds. What’s the impact of news a la carte on understanding and what new technologies feed this trend? How does it fracture the public sphere – or enrich it?

3:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m.

Media Café and free ice cream social, courtesy of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc.

4:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

TRACK FIVE

CC Reading Room

 Technology: “Who Will Narrow the Digital Divide?”

CONVENER: Case Lide, Baller Herbst Law Group.  DISCUSSANTS:  Wally Bowen, Mountain Area Information Network; Josh Silver, FreePress.net

As music, movies, news, archives and other data increasingly are delivered on-demand over the Internet rather than in physical form, first-class citizenship requires a high-speed connection. Who’s left in steerage? How can technology narrow the digital divide? A look at municipal wireless initiatives.

5:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m.

Media Café  -- networking / discussion

5:45 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

Campus Center Reading Room – reception and hor d’oeuvres for all attendees. (Spill out into CC Concourse)

6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

DINNER

7::30 p.m.-8:15 p.m.

SPEECH

8:15 p.m.-9:30 p.m.

DISCUSSION

Dinner and discussion, CC Auditorium,  Campus Center 

SPEAKER: Dr. Rob Williams, president, Action Coalition for Media Education; professor, Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont:  “Why Doesn’t Johnny Care? How Media Can Bring Young Adults Back Into The Public Sphere?”

Young adults have abandoned the news as presented in traditional forms. Newspaper and TV users are aging. But they are heavy media consumers.  What will put public affairs back into their diet? And why does it matter?

 DISCUSSANTS: Andrea Frantz, Wilkes University; Melissa Krodman, Project Think Different; Mark Lopez, CIRCLE .

9:30 p.m.-11:00 p.m.

Campus Center
 
 CC Auditorium

Media Café Extra: “War Stories – Avoiding Other’s Mistakes”

An informal session for all participants able to share “war stories” from the trenches of citizen journalism. What has been your worst experience? Share your nightmares and tales of woe over beer, wine or whatever.

7:30  a.m.-8:30 a.m.

Continental breakfast for summit participants ( Campus Center Lower Level Concourse)

8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m.

TRACK FIVE

CC Reading Room

Technology:  “Merging Forms: Is the Medium Still the Message?”

CONVENERS: Steve Garfield, Rocketboom.com; Paul Grabowicz, University of California Berkeley;   Robb Montgomery,  VisualEditors.com

Blogging… reporters who pack a camera, MP3 recorder and a notepad … 24/7 deadlines …is journalism using technology or the other way around? As the information fire hose reaches full pressure, is wisdom increasing too?

10:00 a.m.-11:15 a.m.

(same rooms as

earlier sessions) 

Media Café collaboration and Track meet-ups for “next step” ideas:

Topic ideas:

POLITICS:  Pitching the big tent

TECHNOLOGY:  Making adoption easy

CITIZEN MEDIA:  Inviting participation

EDUCATION:  Making media cool

11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

CLOSING SESSION

AND BOX LUNCHES

 CC Room 101

“What Did We Learn/What’s Next” -- Reports from track managers or designees

“Speak to the Group” – Moderated  open microphone session

Closing Talk: “Keeping Participatory Democracy Alive: Talking Across The Divides Of Media, Politics, Education And Technology.”

CONVENERS: Norman Sims, UMass Amherst and  principal investigator, Media Giraffe Project;  Bill Densmore, director/editor.

12:45 p.m.

Conference Ends

1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Independent meet-ups and outdoor bootcamps

POST-CONFERENCE MEET-UPS:

Independent groups with membership at the conference hold planning or strategy sessions in rooms provided at no additional charge by the Media Giraffe Project and UMass Amherst.

MUSEUMS 10 – at WikiPedia  /
 

ACTIVITIES/TRIPS:  (LINK: Amherst area)

INDIVIDUAL LINKS:

Hiking: Mount Toby, the Norwottuck Trail

Rafting on the Deerfield River (Charlemont, Mass.)
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book  Art  (Amherst, Mass.)

Historic Deerfield or Yankee Candle (South Deerfield, Mass.)

Amherst College Mead Art Museum (Amherst)

Amherst College Museum of Natural History

Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton)

National Yiddish Book Center (South Amherst)

Emily Dickens House Museum (Amherst)

Official NBA Basketball Hall of Fame (Springfield, Mass.)

Mass. Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams, Mass.)

Saturday evening

Events in the Five College Area:

Tanglewood (BSO-Lenox, Mass. –Garrison Keillor / Prairie Home Companion Live, 5:45 p.m., Sat., July 1)