Arts and Technology

2003, 83 pages. Published by National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, 145 Ninth Street, Suite 250, San Francisco, CA, 94103, 415-431-1391, namac@namac.org, www.namac.org

Download Report: www.namac.org/youth-media-report

2004, 48 pages. Published by Independent Television Service, 501 York Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, 415-35-6 8383, itvs@itvs.org , www.itvs.org, and Center for Social Media, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20036-801, 202-885- 3107, socialmedia@american.edu, www.centerforsocialmedia.org

November 2001, 55 pages. Published by Alliance of Artists Communities, 255 South Main Street, Providence, RI, 02903, (401) 351-4320, aac@artistcommunities.org, www.artistcommunities.org

May 2002, Published by Public Knowledge, 1875 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 650, Washington, DC, 20009, 202-518-0020, publicknowledge.org, and New America Foundation, 1630 Connecticut Ave, NW, 7th floor, Washington, DC, 20009, 202- 986-2700, www.newamerica.net

Download pdf: http://www.publicknowledge.org/pdf/why_the_public_domain_matters.pdf

Just about everyone by this time, I suppose, has heard of blogging, the act of keeping a Web journal, often accompanied by links to related online articles, photos, or Web sites. Weblogs, blogs for short, first appeared in the late 1990s. Early on, they were a geeky pastime that served mostly as a method to pass on interesting Web links to a small circle of like-minded readers.

2002, 60 pages. American Assembly, 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 456, New York, NY 10115, 212-870-3500, amassembly@columbia.edu

Art, Technology, & Intellectual Property provides an excellent summary of intellectual property questions faced by the arts community, both nonprofit and for-profit.

2002, 79 pages. RAND Corporation , 1700 Main Street, P.O. Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138 (310) 451-7002, order@rand.org

Overview
The information presented here by no means represents an exhaustive review of arts-related advocacy Web sites. I have reviewed three national sites, one state site, and one local site.

The standard I used for defining and rating "advocacy material" was that the information could be printed or in other ways readily utilized by grassroots advocates in their interactions with elected officials on timely issues of concern to the arts community.

I am pleased to report on a new initiative to be launched in November 2003. I first got wind of this proposal at an event in Canada House in London where the organizers were sounding out representatives of the arts-on-television community as to their interest and enthusiasm for an annual gathering to be held in different places around the world. This is an initiative of the Banff Television Foundation based in Alberta, Canada and enjoys the support of IMZ (The International Music Zentrum, in Vienna), U.S. Independents (a Washington, D.C.

Media is pervasive and influences the culture in myriad ways. Technological advances and structural transformations are profoundly changing the way we receive and distribute information, as well as the quality of that information and whether or not we are able to interact with it. Legislative, legal, and regulatory policies that favor corporate interests over the public interest have created an environment where a dwindling number of corporations which control both the content and the means of distribution dominate the market.