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Category Archives: Accountability and Representation
When the media does us wrong and community accountability
Radio Shack
A delegation of community groups led by Media Alliance visited an Oakland Radio Shack on Friday December 19 2008 on behalf of the Media Action Grassroots Network (Mag-Net).
They requested digital television converter boxes be made available for the $40 federal coupon price for low-income populations that can’t afford to pay $20-50 to upgrade their TV’s to digital signals.
See the pictures.
Online Learning: The Answer To The Digital Divide
Posted by Samatha Calamari on Jan 15 2011
The latest buzz in education is the growth of online learning communities to address educational access. Through online offerings, education can be more affordable and have the capability to reach communities that otherwise couldn’t access quality institutions. Concurrently, as more students and educators move towards online learning as an alternative, issues of equality are emerging. The question arises, how can online learning close the educational access gap if there is still a great digital divide in low-income communities in the US and around the world. Continue reading Online Learning: The Answer To The Digital Divide
KPFA News Criticized
Posted by Tracy Rosenberg on February 11 2011
KPFA Radio, has received complaints from 3 Berkeley City Council members and 6 workers on two different incidents of problematic coverage in a week on the daily hour-long statewide broadcast of the Pacifica Evening News.
The first complaint was from by Berkeley City Council members Linda Maio, Kriss Worthington and Laurie Capitelli on a story on a council resolution asking all parties involved in the station’s contentious November layoff of 2 employees to negotiate in good faith with each other.
LibroTraficante-Banned Books
Nuestra Palabras, a Houston-based alliance of writers, artists and activists (with a show on Pacifica Radio’s KPFT) brought a caravan of 1,000 banned books into Arizona.
Tony Diaz, a co-founder of Nuestra Palabras, discusses the Arizona book ban on Latino Studies texts and the 2011 Libro Traficantes caravan in the video below.
Massive Open Online Education: How Free is it?
Posted by Samantha Calamari on
Media Alliance December 15 2012
A blog from MA board member Samantha Calamari on education, the internet, what we are gaining and what are we losing?
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The Movement to MOOCs
The manner in which we seek and receive information is transforming at a rapid rate. So fast, in fact, we can’t even see it change before our eyes. Since I last wrote back in early 2011, the concept of oneline is becoming more mainstream across educational institutions and content providers. Access and cost were key factors in bridging the divide to those who, because of economic status, lacked resources such as equipment and internet connectivity. In that moment, schools were exploring ways to offer their students more efficient means of accessing course work. Now, a mere 22 months later, the focus on an internal student body has shifted to a global student body.
Continue reading Massive Open Online Education: How Free is it?
Project Censored The Movie
Trailer for the documentary film on the media literacy project based at Sonoma State University.
Somas Una Americas: The SOA Protests
Posted by Somas Una Americas on June 15th, 2013
SOA Watch
A short documentary film on the years of protests against military-training academy that has seeded a half a century of militaristic imperialism in Central and South America.