Some amazing discussions have taken place over the past few days on public media, participation, engagement and new directions. At Free Press we want to make these ideas a reality by ensuring we have a public media system in this country that is more robust, well supported, diverse, expanded, politically insulated, harnesses leadership, and the list goes on...

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Lots of important introductions to new and exciting forms of social media, but I'm concerned about there being a bit too much on the wonders of new/social media without an equally balanced, engaged, and participatory discussion of digital divide, open source, privacy/surveillance, net neutrality, internet governance, community media, intellectual property concerns that include but go beyond the "fair use" conversation, and right to information laws surrounding these new forms of ostensibly socia… Continue

I'm coming to BB 2009 from Sydney Australia - and very much looking forward to it. But the government is talking of asking young people returning to Australia from visits to countries where there are cases of H1N1 Swine Flu to stay out of school for a week after they arrive home. Is there any reason for concern if travelling to Los Angeles?!

Thanks,

Anne

Looking at the schedule for the conference it seems to me the sessions are fairly academic and it would be good to have more sessions devoted to hands-on applications of audience engagement. What are the steps involved? What are the successful case studies? What are the tips or warnings from people who have been through it?

For those attending Beyond Broadcast 09 at the university of Southern California that are looking for reasonable room rates, you can stay in dorm rooms at the USC from $40 - $60 per night, send an query email to myrna.jones@usc.edu