Notice: The Amherstmedia webpage is currently under redevelopment. Please click here and scroll down 5 entries to the "CSSC Encounters" to view our programs!
CSSC First Anniversary and Award Announcement (21 September 2010)
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CSSC Encounters: Hip Hop for Social Change (21 September 2010)
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CSSC Seminars have been videotaped and broadcasted by Amherst Community TV, ACTV, since 2008. Amherst Community Media is a dynamic member-driven, non-profit public access information, communication and technology center.
In October 2009 the collaboration intensified, when Jan Servaes was elected on the Board of Directors of ACTV. The CSSC Encounters interview series got started.
The programs are broadcasted on the local TV Channel 12 and available online on demand: Click here to view CSSC programs on ACTV .
Interviews:
-2010/11: David Bollier, author, activist, blogger and consultant who has spent the past ten years exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture, on "THE RISE OF THE COMMONS" Watch the interview!
- 2010/09: Dr. Vernon CRONEN, Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on "THE MEANING OF COMMUNICATION" Watch the interview here.
- 2010/07: Dr. Richard SCLOVE, Founder and Senior Fellow of The Loka Institute, on “USING CITIZEN PARTICIPATION, COLLABORATION AND EXPERTANALYSIS TO INFORM AND IMPROVE DECISION-MAKING ON ISSUES INVOLVING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY”
-2010/04: Dr. Richard SCLOVE, Founder of The Loka Institute
(www.loka.org) and Senior Fellow on "PARTICIPATORY TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT"
-2010/04: Professor Royal COLLE, Emiritus Professor of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, “INNOVATIONS IN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION: A VIEW FROM THE FIELDS”
- 2010/04: Tracy VAN SLYKE, Project Director of The Media Consortium on “THE RISE OF NETWORKED PROGRESSIVE MEDIA: LESSONS FOR ACTIVISTS, JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA MAKERS” http://204.213.244.104/CABLECAST/PUBLIC/SHOW.ASPX?CHANNELID=1&SHOWID=5678
- 2010/ 03 Chelsea McCRACLEN and Craig SINCLAIR, ACTV, on “AMHERST COMMUNITY MEDIA”
- 2010/02 Professor Barbie ZELIZER, Raymond Williams Chair of Communication.at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Association (ICA), “JOURNALISM AND/FOR SOCIAL CHANGE”
http://204.213.244.104/Cablecast/Public/Show.aspx?ChannelID=1&ShowID=5589
- 2010/02 Professor Daniel HALLIN, Professor and Chair of Communication, University of California, San Diego, on “COMPARING MEDIA SYSTEMS”
http://204.213.244.104/Cablecast/Public/Show.aspx?ChannelID=1&ShowID=5550
- Jim LESCAULT, Director of ACTV, on “AMHERST COMMUNITY MEDIA”
- 2010/02 Conor WHITE-SULLIVAN, Founder of Localocracy, on “LOCALOCRACY”
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- 2009/10 Professor Tim KENNEDY, Professor and Chair of Communication, University of Tampa, Florida, on “WHERE THE RIVERS MEET THE SKY: A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT”
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Seminars:
On Thursday, April 22, 2010:
Professor Royal COLLE, Emiritus Professor of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca,
“INNOVATIONS IN DEVELOPMENT COMMUNICATION: A VIEW FROM THE FIELDS”
On Tuesday, April 20, 2010:
Dr. Yan Xiaojiang, Nantong University in China & Visiting Fellow at CSSC, "THE NEW HUMANISM, THE DOCTRINE OF THE MEAN IN TRANSITION, AND CULTURAL MULTIPLICITY"
On Friday, April 9, 2010:
Dr. Marwan KRAIDY, Associate Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
“REALITY TV AND ARAB POLITICS”
On Thursday, April 8, 2010:
Magdalena GOMEZ, Founder and Director Teatro V!da, Springfield,
“CREATIVE TOOLS FOR REACHING YOUR AUDIENCE”
On Friday, February 26, 2010:
Professor Barbie ZELIZER, Raymond Williams Chair of Communication.at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia & President of the International Communication Association (ICA),
“JOURNALISM AND/FOR SOCIAL CHANGE”
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On Tuesday, February 23, 2010:
Professor Daniel HALLIN, Professor and Chair of Communication, University of California, San Diego,
“COMPARING MEDIA SYSTEMS: BEYOND THE WESTERN WORLD”
On Thursday, October 8, 2009:
Professor Tim KENNEDY, Professor and Chair of Communication, University of Tampa, Florida,
"WHERE THE RIVERS MEET THE SKY: A COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT”
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On Thursday, September 10, 2009:
Professor Robert COX, Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and former President of The Sierra Club,
"COMMUNICATING CLIMATE CHANGE: CHALLENGES OF SCALE AND THE STRATEGIC"
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On Wednesday, April 15, 2009:
Joe KARAGANIS, Director of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) 'Culture, Creativity and Information Technology' and 'Media and Democracy' programs, "ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP IN MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY and CULTURE"
On Thursday, April 9, 2009:
Dr. Diana STEIN and Dr. Jackie WOLF, League of Women Voters of Amherst, Health Care Committee,
"MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH CARE REFORM: MIRACLE OR MIRAGE?"
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On Thursday, April 2, 2009:
Dr. Judi AUBEL, President of the Grandmother Project on
"THE CLASH BETWEEN CULTURAL REALITIES AND THE YOUTH-BIAS IN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMING"
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On Friday, March 27, 2009:
Professor Francois HEINDERYCKX, President of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA),
"QUALITY IN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE"
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On November 25, 2008:
Michel BAUWENS, President of the Peer2Peer Foundation,
" NETWORK CIVILIZATION: PEER-TO-PEER AND THE RISE OF GREEN CAPITALISM"
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