Core Community Media 2:
Exploring Power in Community Media: From ‘Free Speech’ to ‘Collective Empowerment’
ACM 2025 National Conference
Boston College
24 June 2025, 2:00 - 3:30pm
Presentations and Resources
CM2: Values - Google Drive Folder Contents, and Links:
- PRESENTATIONS on Google Drive
- John Higgins
- Martha Fuentes-Bautista
- Chad Johnston
- Michael Einsenmenger
- Antoine Haywood
- Presenter BIOS
Additional:- "Rethinking Access Philosophy" issue of Community Media Review, 2002. [also available at Internet Archive CMR Collection]
- Community Media White Papers, ACM 2001-2003.
Archived White Papers for Alliance for Community Media (ACM) conferences .- Higgins, John: "Bridging Practice and Theory: `White Papers’ in Public Access Cable Television." 2005.
- Higgins, John: Additional materials at MediaProf.org - Writings & Research Interests
- Fuentes-Bautista, Martha: "Community Media and the Rearticulation of State–Civil Society Relations in Venezuela." 2011.
- Fuentes-Bautista, Martha: "Beyond Television: The Digital Transition of Public Access." 2009 .
- Fuentes-Bautista, Martha: "Access 360: Building Engaged Communities in a Digital Age." 2013.
- Fuentes-Bautista, Martha:"Rethinking localism in the broadband era: A participatory community development approach." 2014.
- Fuentes-Bautista, Martha: "Redistributing the Wealth of Networks: Digital Community Media and Social Inclusion." 2013.
- Haywood, Antoine: "Community Media in A Pandemic: Facilitating Local Communication, Collective Resilience and Transitions to Virtual Public Life in the U.S." 2021
- Haywood, Antoine: "Public Access Television: An Untapped Resource for Local News."
- Haywood, Antoine: "PEG Access Media: Local Communication Hubs in a Pandemic." 2020.
- Haywood, Antoine: "Revising Legacy Media Practices to Serve Hyperlocal Information Needs of Marginalized Populations." 2020.
- Johnson, Fred: "What's Going On In Community Media." Benton Foundation, 2007.
- Devine, Bob: "Marginal Notes: Consumer Video, the First Amendment, and the Future of Access." 1990.
- Devine, Bob: "Video, Access, and Agency." 1992.
- OURmedia Papers - Archived papers from OurMedia/NuestrosMedios conferences 2001-2004.
Presenters
BIOS
-John W. Higgins, Retired Prof & Union Prez, University of San Francisco
-Martha Fuentes-Batista, Senior Lecturer, Director of Engaged Research & Learning, University of Massachusetts Amherst
-Chad Johnston, Chief Executive Officer, CreaTV San Jose
-Michael Eisenmenger, Executive Director, Community Media Center of Marin
-Antoine Haywood, Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Description
The session explores current access philosophies and values. For example, how do notions of ‘power,’ ‘democracy,’ and ‘empowerment’ underly today’s community media beliefs and practices after five decades of access existence?
We continue a discussion started in Core CM session 1: History. It’s adapted from ACM ‘White Papers’ sessions in the past where practitioners and scholars discussed practices and underlying tenets of access and community media.
At the time, US public access was shifting from the initial perspective of “first come, first served” to targeting marginalized communities, given access experiences and a deeper understanding of how power works in communities.
The discussion also extended to the pages of the Community Media Review, in particular the 2002 “Rethinking Access Philosophy” issue, available at the Internet Archive's CMR collection.