Posts Tagged ‘media studies’

I’ve been musing about 40 years of experience with two careers that necessarily intertwine and overlap. The first is my career as a media professional. The second is my career as a person with a disability. You could think of one as the day job and the other as my second gig, but the experiences cannot be separated into such neatly distinct categories. If anything unifies my work in both areas, it is the concept of public sphere. Here is how Wikipedia currently defines it.

I’d like to see an extension of the Poynter Timeline documenting the parallel development of computer-based information accessibility. Here are several of my milestones:
1976: The first time I heard about CCTV reading systems for visually impaired people. It wasn’t a doctor, an educator, or a rehab counselor who told me about it, but a [...]

Steal This Footage – Howard Rheingold – Shifts in Technology and Power:
Rheingold recounts how the development of communication technology has removed the power top transmit messages from a tiny elite, and had been a force for democratization. Following Benkler’s idea of peer production he explains how the diffusion of many-to-many communication technologies enables new forms [...]

[Editor's Note: Harold A. Innis presented “The Bias of Communication” as a talk at the University of Michigan on April 18, 1949. The essay was gathered in a 1951 collection of his works also titled The Bias of Communication, published by the University of Toronto Press. The copyright is held by the University of Toronto, [...]

My proposal for MiT6. True to form, I met the deadline at the last minute:
A blind reader who constructs an accessible text of Harold Innis’ “The Bias of Communication” will find in it some powerful ideas that suggest why such an accessible text is possible, if not inevitable. Innis’ essay is not available now in [...]