Dear Arne, Sorry to have missed the Dublin meeting, but following from a distance has been helpful. Thanks for your updates! Best, Becky P.s. Let me bring to our media's attention a workshop that Marta Fuentes and I helped to conceive related to advocacy. It would be great if those working on community media policy (broadly conceived) anywhere in the world submitted abstracts for consideration: http://culturelab.asc.upenn.edu/2013/06/28/cfp-the-role-of-advocacy-in-media -and-telecom-policy/ > From: Arne Hintz <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: Arne Hintz <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:49:50 +0200 > To: Our Media <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: OURMedia conference, day 1, brief report > > Dear all, > > thank you for the positive and supportive feedback. This may be a good > occasion to thank all those from the OURMedia network who helped > organise this event but then couldn't come for different reasons -- > particularly Dorothy who was very involved with the planning at the > beginning and arranged the first meeting with the Dublin-based groups > back in December. > > There will be more news from the second day of the conference, I'm > sure, and feedback on the overall event, but now many of us are very > busy with the IAMCR conference that started this morning. The feedback > from participants here is that the second day was as interesting and > valuable as the first day, included great presentations and led to > some new collaborations. There are always lots of things that could be > done better and lots to learn for future events, of course, but that's > for another time... maybe for the planning process towards the next > event for which there are already a few ideas... > > Best, > Arne > > > Quoting Dorothy Kidd <[log in to unmask]>: > >> Dear Arne and everyone who produced this day: >> Thanks for this report. Sorry I missed it. Sounds great and hope that we >> are able to find out any relevant proposals and other discussion. hope the >> second day goes as well. >> >> >> best, >> >> Dorothy Kidd. >> >> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:12 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> as the second day of our conference in Dublin is getting started, here is >>> just a brief update on day 1. It was a successful day, according to all the >>> participants that I talked with. There were consistently around 60 >>> participants throughout the day, with up to 100 at peak times. Participants >>> included local Irish media activists but also many international guests who >>> are here for the IAMCR conference. We've had several OURMedia 'veterans' >>> like John Downing, Amparo Cadavid, Stefania Milan, Bob Hackett, and others, >>> but also many new faces and many older and younger scholars for whom this >>> has been the first OURMedia experience. >>> >>> Sessions ranged from discussions on the media situation in Ireland to >>> interactive Skype debates on community media in Cyprus and in the Middle >>> East, and addressed community radio as well as new social media. Our >>> friends from Dublin Community Television did a tremendous job in organising >>> the logistics and some parts of the programme, and the Irish community >>> media network CRAOL generously supported the event. >>> >>> Day 1 took place at a nice venue in central Dublin. Day 2 is starting now >>> at Dublin City University. >>> >>> Best, >>> Arne >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dorothy Kidd >> Professor, Department of Media Studies >> Kalmanowitz Hall (K-Hall) 157 >> 2130 Fulton St. >> University of San Francisco >> San Francisco, CA >> 94117-1080 >> 415-422-5061 >> [log in to unmask] >> >> To view articles and papers go to http://usfca.academia.edu/DorothyKidd >>