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 As
a journalist, a scholar, and a teacher, my focus is on the relationship
between media and society. I support policies and business patterns
that promote open access to the means of expression, and I report
on and encourage diversity of expression.
Please click on any of the categories below to sample my journalistic
and scholarly work, my courses, my administrative work, or my public
speaking. You will find subjects ranging from broadband open access
policy to social action video to new documentary to telecommunications
law.
— Pat
Aufderheide
Publications
The Daily Planet:
A Critic on the Capitalist Culture Beat
Communications Policy and the Public
Interest: The Telecommunications Act of 1996
Articles
"Fund Festival:
The Council on Foundations,” International Documentary, March
2002
By Pat Aufderheide
A film festival that celebrates the funders of a film or video? That’s
what the annual
Council on Foundations Film and Video Festival does. It showcases
a dozen selections of
films and videos produced over the last few years at several of the
conferences held each year by the Council on Foundations, an association
of private foundations.
"Challenges to Television Journalism after September 11"
Journalism, 2002
The terrible events of September 11 tested the nation's one truly
mass medium, broadcast television. Television newsmakers took on roles
not only as information providers but as mourners, cheerleaders and
therapists. In this article for an academic journal, I explored the
implications of these roles in sustaining an enduring - but dangerous
— American innocence about international perceptions of American
culture.
"Public Television Now and Later"
2002
Public television is a rare example of noncommercial media in a commercial
environment, and by its very existence it tests the limits of expression
in a democracy every day. In this entry for The Encyclopedia of Television,
edited by Horace Newcomb, I outlined how the unique and complex institution
of public television came into being and is structured, as well as
how public television is facing the challenges of advanced and interactive
TV, the Web, and competition for viewers.
Speeches
"Personal
Expression, Public Imagination"
Closing Keynote Address, National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture
Conference, Seattle, September 5, 2002.
Testimony on Maryland Assembly Senate Bill
505, Internet Consumers' Bill of Rights
In the struggle to define how broadband Internet will be designed
and built, I believe that the health of democratic public life is
at stake. I also believe that inventors, entrepreneurs, and small
businesspeople stand to lose if a closed model is adopted. This testimony
is one of my efforts to advocate for open access. February, 2000.
"Keepers of the Public
Domain in Electronic Media: Keep It Up!"
Keynote speech given at the annual convention of Alliance for Community
Media, the member organization of cable access stations nationwide,
July 10, 1999.
Affiliations
Center for Social Media
Founder and director of this organization that
showcases and analyzes media for social justice, democracy and civil
society. The organization is a project of the School of Communication
at American University.
ITVS
The Independent Television Service (ITVS) uses $8+ million of taxpayer
funds each year to help independent producers make television programs.
It's the product of a decade's worth of political organizing by
independents to win resources within public TV for more diverse
perspectives. This struggle is chronicled, among other places, in
my book, "The Daily Planet." I am honored to serve as
a director of ITVS, and I encourage you to learn more about their
organization by going to their website.
Council
on Foundations Film and Video Festival
I curate the Council on Foundations Film and Video Festival,
which celebrates the foundation support for creative and powerful
video and film. In this article for International Documentary magazine,
I described some of the powerful strategies foundations have discovered
to support and amplify the effect of social media.
Courses
COMM 512.001 Social Documentary
COMM 205.003 Understanding Mass Media
COMM 511.001 History of Documentary
COMM 711.001 Teaching Seminar in Media Arts
COMM 701.001 Seminar in Film Theory and Criticism
COMM 515.001 Children's Media
COMM 517.001 History of Cross-Cultural Film/Video
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