WHAT IS COMMUNITY MEDIA? is a 4-part video series from the first Community Media Summit in Chicago on June 15, 2007. Produced by See3 Communications in Cooperation with The Benton Foundation, CAN TV, Chicago Community Trust and Community Media Workshop

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PART ONE
“What role can community media play
in community life?” Watch Parts 2 through 4 below.Videos are also available for download at DoGooderTV

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Special thanks to Kelly Luchtman and her crew.Interviews (in order of appearance) in the series include: Alyce Myatt, Managing Director – Grantmakers in Film & Electronic Media; Laurie Cirivello, Executive Director – Grand Rapids Community Media Center; Silvia Rivera, General Manager – Radio Arte WRTE FM; Tania Unzuerta, Managing Producer – Radio Arte WRTE FM; Richard Somerset-Ward, Media Consultant; Catherine Settanni, Digital Inclusion Task Force; Scot Rouke, President – One Community; Jerry Wareham, President & CEO – WVIZ/PBS & 90.3 WCPN ideastream; Julia Stasch, Vice President, Human & Community Development – The MacArthur Foundation; Alexandra Close, Executive Director – New America Media;Links:Alyce Myatt, Grantmakers in Film & Electronic Media
http://www.gfem.org/joomla/Laurie Cirivello, Grand Rapids Community Media Center
http://www.grcmc.org/about/

Silvia Rivera & Tania Unzuerta, WRTE Radio Arte
http://www.wrte.org/

Catherine Settanni, Digital Inclusion Task Force
http://tripark.org/~digitalaccess/

Scot Rourke, OneCommunity
http://www.onecleveland.org/

Jerry Wareham, WVIZ/PBS ideastream
http://www.wviz.org/ & http://www.ideastream.org/

Julia Stasch, The MacArthur Foundation
http://www.macfound.org

Alexandra Close, New America Media
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/

Footage and photos courtesy of: BeyondMedia, Community Media Center, Community Media Workshop, ideastream, New America Media, OneCommunity, Radio Arte, Video Machete, Web 2.0 … The Web is Using Us, www.lewisflyer.com, and www.photohome.com.

Watch more videos below

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PART TWO
“Collaboration is key to effective community media

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Part THREE“Access to broadband will affect community media”

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PART FOUR“Weaving diverse voices through community media”

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More infomration can also be found at the Benton Foundation website at www.benton.org