Center for Film, Television & New Media @ UCSB

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The Future of Multi-Media Digital News and Cultural Networks

Friday May 11, 2007, 8-10 p.m.
Corwin Pavilion, UCSB Campus
Free Admission

UCTV Broadcast

In a world of rapidly evolving communication technologies, ethnically and socially diverse populations will need to find new ways to access information and learning opportunities. The commercial media landscape lacks public interest television and web-delivered video content offering thoughtful discussion that is non-partisan, non-commercial, and which incorporates multiple perspectives.

This panel discussion brings together top researchers and leaders from the University of California state-wide system, including leadership of UCTV, the national satellite channel of the UC system, as well as broadcast and digital media entrepreneurs, community media coordinators, new media researchers, and audience members to present their experiences, innovations and visions for the future of multi-media digital news and cultural networks.

Forrest Sawyer will open the evening with an overview of the digital media landscape. Sawyer has 25 years of anchoring and reporting experience with ABC, NBC, and CBS News. He has covered numerous major breaking and investigative stories, including every United States military engagement since 1972, as well as the fall of the Soviet Union. Sawyer is the recipient of seven national Emmy awards and the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award. He also works with corporate, government, and non-profit organizations to develop multi-platform communications strategies that take advantage of the emerging digital world, and speaks to groups around the country about the information revolution.

Following his presentation, Mr. Sawyer will moderate a “town hall” discussion with the audience and several panels featuring the following outstanding media professionals, researchers, and UC leaders who have been working together in a half-day workshop to generate a series of central issues related to the future of multi-media digital news and cultural networks.

This event will be filmed, edited, and made available through UCTV, via cable and satellite in California, and via scheduled and on-demand Internet viewing. See www.uctv.tv for details.

Art Battson is Director of Instructional Resources, UC Santa Barbara.

John Blossom is Professor and Director, California AHEC, UC San Francisco-Fresno.

Lynn Burnstan is Managing Director of UCTV, UC San Diego.

Stephanie Couch is Director of Statewide Initiatives for the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC).

Pamela de Maigret is a documentary film maker and writer who specializes in ethnographic and wildlife productions.

Jennifer Earl is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society, UC Santa Barbara.

Anna Everett is Professor and Chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara.

Alison Gang is Communications Manager of UCTV, UC San Diego.

Dan Gillmor is an online journalist, founder of the Center for Citizen Media and author of We The Media.

Dan Greenstein is UC Associate Vice Provost for Scholarly Information, and University Librarian of the California Digital Library, UC Office of the President.

Jennifer Holt is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara.

Taehyun Lee is a Television Producer and Director at the Korean Broadcasting System.

Constance Penley is Professor of Film and Media Studies, and Co-Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media, UC Santa Barbara.

Sharmini Peries is Executive Director of Policy and Development, Independent World Television, The Real News (Canada), a non-profit web and video news network.

Michael Reid is Professor of Environmental Horticulture, UC Davis.

Ronald E. Rice is Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication in the Department of Communication, and Co-Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media, UC Santa Barbara.

Douglas Roberts is the developer of the online regional news site, noozle.net.

Jerry Roberts is a veteran, prize-winning journalist,the former editor of the Santa Barbara NewsPress, and now Publications Editor for the UC Santa Barbara Daily Nexus newspaper and LaCumbre yearbook, UC Santa Barbara.

Elizabeth Robinson is Associate Director of Media Services for Associated Students, and advisor for KCSB-FM, UC Santa Barbara.

Martin Sansing is Director of Programming, AT&T.

Doc Searls is senior editor of Linux Journal and a Research Fellow at the Center for Information Technology and Society, UC Santa Barbara.

Guy Smith is Dean of Educational Programs, and Director of the School of Media Arts at Santa Barbara City College.

Richard Somerset-Ward is a television writer and producer and consultant to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other public television entities.

David Toole is CEO and founder of outhink.com, and Advisory Board Member of the Center for Information Technology and Society, UC Santa Barbara.

Ray Tracy is Production Services Manager for Instructional Resources, UC Santa Barbara.

Mary Walshok is Associate Vice Chancellor for Public Programs and Dean of University Extension, UC San Diego.

Ellen Wartella is Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost, UC Riverside.

Sponsored and organized by
The Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media University of California Television
www.uctv.tv

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