Posted by digitalsista on September 25th, 2008 in Broadband, Community Media, Community Technology, Computing, Digital Divide/Inclusion, Digital Transitions, Diversity, Media Justice, Mobile Computing, Net Neutrality, Netroots, Old vs New Technologies, Social Media, Tech Industry, Tech and Telcom Policies, Technology, Women in Tech, eGovernment, poverty
The Digital Divide discussion arose in a digital transition session at the Congressional Black Caucus week. The session was called It Takes a Village to Stay Connected in the New Digital Era.
The focus of the discussion was about the DTV coupons. These are coupons for converter boxes to assist people to transition from analog [...]
Posted by digitalsista on July 19th, 2008 in Community Media, Community Technology, Digital Divide/Inclusion, Digital Transitions, Diversity, Feminism, Mobile Computing, Social Media, Technology, Teens and Technology, Women in Tech, politics, web 2.0
I was fortunate enough to get Lesley to talk to me about the digital divide for communities of color. She was speaking during the BlogHer 08 Conference during the morning Keynote discussing old and new media with Lisa Stone moderating including Redbook editor-in-chief Stacy Morrison, and Bravo TV’s Senior VP of New Media and Digital, [...]
Posted by digitalsista on June 6th, 2008 in Blogging, Broadband, Community Media, Computing, Digital Divide/Inclusion, Diversity, Media Justice, Net Neutrality, Netroots, Social Media, Tech and Telcom Policies, eGovernment
This is a repost of live blogging at Women in Media and News. I will do a follow up post on this issue here.
National Media Reform Conference 2008: Media Reform Begins with Me
Panelists: Andre Banks, Colorofchange.org; Micah Sifry, Personal Democracy Forum; and Matt Stoller, OpenLeft.com
Sifry opens the segment with using the data of all earmarks [...]