A-CONFERENCE
HOW TO REGISTER:
SESSION TRACKS AND SPEAKERS
TRAVEL / DIRECTIONS / MAP / PARKING / LODGING
This page describes options for registering for the Media
Giraffe Project roundtable summit and conference at UMass Amherst June 29-July 1. After a brief description of the
event, individual tracks are listed, with links to specific program times and speakers. These are the most up-to-date
program listings. A printable PDF brochure with session
descriptions and times but limited speaker/participant information, is also available. After reviewing the information
on this page, you may . . .
Click HERE to register. Or HERE for "Journalism That Matters"
Registering? Tell us what you
hope to learn.
OVERVIEW
"Democracy & Independence:
Sharing News & Information in a Connected World," is intended as a flexible convening of active participants across
the four interest areas of media, politics, education and multimedia technology, with plenty of time for informal
discussion during the Media Cafe breakouts.
Most sessions will be convened and conversations lead by more than
one person. Five conference tracks are
designed to identify attendees with common interests yet encourage all participants to learn and teach across
boundaries.
THURSDAY, June 29
Thursday's one-day roundtable summit on the Future of Journalism
is a single-track event and is designated as Track 1. These sessions will be arranged as much as possible in a
roundtable, discussion format, encouraging broad participation.
Track 6 is a Thursday afternoon Citizen Filmmaking Workshop.
FRIDAY/SATURDAY, June 30-July 1
On Friday and Saturday there are four concurrent tracks, with common plenary sessions at breakfast, lunch
and dinner. These are designated as Tracks 2-5 and cover citizen media, politics and the internet, media education and
multimedia technology. The format of each session depends upon the speaker or panel.
On Friday, news professionals and other stakeholders are
optionally invited to join a continuation of Track 1 by participating in the "Journalism that Matters" seminar as an alternative following Tracks
2-6. Participation in "Journalism that Matters" requires Track 1 full-event registration.
SPEAKERS / SESSION LEADERSHIP
Session leaders are being changed and updated daily.
A regularly
updated program-detail page for each track lists events, topics and speakers and will be
continuously updated through the conference date. Click on the track title below to access each detail page. A
less-frequently updated printable PDF version of the entire three-day program is also available.
The PDF program will not be regularly update until just before the summit opens.
You may wish to review the program-detail pages before going to the REGISTRATION
PAGE. You must choose to register for one track in order to give
the Media Giraffe Project team a sense of the distribution of interest areas among participants, and to facilicate
selection of "meetup" sessions. However, you may attend any session on days for which you've registered,
regardless of which track you choose.
COST
Registration for Thurs.-Sat., (including Wed., June 28 introductory dinner and discussion)
is $395 until June 12. Registration for Tracks 2-5 (Fri.-Sat. only) is $225 until June 12. Both include all
meals.
There's a "no-food" option for the budget conscious. Pay for meals a-la-carte at the campus BlueWall cafeteria --
or bring your own -- and you can register for all conference events, including receptions and seating at after-meal
discussions, for $250. Simply write "no-food-$250" in the "other information" field when registering
online.
A word about LODGING . . . after reviewing the tracks below, and before going to the online registration
page, you may wish to review LODGING OPTIONS.
INTERNET CONNECTION
We recommend you sign up for FREE temporary Internet wired/wireless Internet access while at the summit conference
-- good all over the UMass campus. The instruction form to do so is here -- (PDF) (WORD), to be returned by June 23.
THURSDAY/FRIDAY / June 29/30, 2006
TRACK ONE: Future of Journalism Roundtable Summit
(attendance limited -- register early)
Journalism is no longer a
profession or a craft -- it is being taken over by citizens, who are now driving its form and influence at thousands of
independent websites covering communities, politics and niche topics. This attendance-limited series of moderated,
roundtable discussions will include mainstream journalists, political strategists, educators, technologists and citizen
journalists. Check in 4 p.m.-6 p.m., Wed., June 28 / Sessions: 7 a.m.-8:30 a.m. Thurs., June 29. Option to continue in
the "Journalism that Matters" seminar on Friday. (NOTE:
Those arriving Wed., June 28, and registered for Track One may attend dinner and a discussion featuring Helen
Thomas, Marty Baron, Teresa Hanafin and others at the Campus Center on Wednesday evening. You will receive
details by email approximately two weeks before the summit.
FRIDAY June
29
TRACK ONE: "Journalism that Matters"
seminar
Additiona. check-in 7:30 a.m.-8:30 a.m. Track
one continues from Thursday with an additional attendance-limited convening of the "Journalism that Matters" seminar
series facilitated by Steve Silha of the Washington News Council and Chris Peck, editor, The Commercial Appeal of
Memphis.
TRACK TWO: Citizen Media Bootcamp and
frontline lessons
Share up-to-the-minute information
about fast-growing local online news communities -- how they operate, how they're financed, and what motivates the
people who start them. Break into small groups, tackle real-life examples of local news community development, with
access to peers and experts as the "Media Giraffe Institute: Lessons from the Frontlines". Check in 4p.m.-9 p.m.,
Thurs., June 29 / 7 a.m.-8:30 a.m., Fri., June 3 Program ends noon, Sat., July 1.
TRACK THREE: Politics and the Internet:
What's Next
Find out how political
strategists will work the Internet and new media in 2006 and 2008 to move the U.S. closer to "digital democracy." What
is the role of citizens -- and traditional media? Check in 4p.m.-9 p.m., Thurs., June 29 / 7 a.m.-8:30 a.m., Fri., June
3 Program ends noon, Sat., July 1 (but see "meetup" below)
TRACK FOUR: Educating Smart Media
Consumers/Creators
Hands-on workshops emphasize
the "hows" and "whys" of connecting news production and multimedia distribution with the classroom to foster smarter
users and creators of media -- and active citizens. Check in 4p.m.-9 p.m., Thurs., June 29 / 7 a.m.-8:30 a.m., Fri.,
June 3
Program ends noon, Sat., July 1 (but see "meetup" below)
TRACK FIVE: Technology/Multimedia: Where's
journalism?
Discuss, dissect and create the
potential impact of Internet and information technology on journalism, politics and education -- and participatory
democracy. Check in 4p.m.-9 p.m., Thurs., June 29 / 7 a.m.-8:30 a.m., Fri., June 3. Program ends noon, Sat., July
1
SPECIAL EVENTS
To register for any of the following events, check "Special Event
Registration" on the online registration page and write the name of the event in the "other information" field:
Citizen Filmmaking Workshop -- Thurs. PM
only
As digital video cameras become
more popular, as people start taking videos from their cellphones, as new sites such as YouTube.com emerge to
distfibute these videos, "citizen filmmaking" is set to take off. Listen to some of the people are doing it. Learn the
basics of low-budget digital production for making political, community, social-message and information web
video. Discuss technology and practice with other practitioners. A Thursday-afternoon special "meet
up."
New England political
bloggers meet-up, FRI all day
Come join a
"meet-up" of Massachusetts and New England political bloggers at noon on Friday, June 30, 2006, at the Media Giraffe
Project summit at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus Center. For info, contact: Michael DeChiara of www.wonkNOT.net. Discussion. might include: Plans for
coverage of the Massachusetts gubernatorial primary and election and how bloggers connect with main-stream
media.
Christopher Lydon and the New England
Common -- FRI noon
Does
New England need a virtual meeting place for news, analysis, discussion and action on politics, culture, environment
and life? Could the Massachusetts governor's race be a catalyst to establish such a thing? Open Source Radio host
Christopher Lydon will lead an idea session, an opportunity to count heads and compare
notes.
SATURDAY
Four sessions from Friday continue until
noon.
MEETUPS: Post-conference networking
sessions
(free and open to
any track registrant)
The Media Giraffe Project will facilitate meeting locations and times on
Saturday afternoon for informal "meetups" among interest groups. Meetup proposals will be posted on the conference
website during June. Some meetups may involving hiking or bicycling, weather permitting.
ARTS/EVENTS: Options for Saturday and July 4th weekend
We provide links to a few cultural, tourist and recreational venues, including a special Deerfield
River rafting expedition, and a possible trip to Tanglewood on Saturday evening, July 1, to see Garison
Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion" live.
EXHIBITS / LITERATURE: Vendors and NGOs literature, display and booth options
Limited facilities for literature display by vendors, non-governmental, research or trade
groups may be arranged.
Click HERE to register.
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