https://wpaa.tv/mediacenter/studiowfilmprogram_filmmakersupport/ The largest 2017 film project The Sparrow Falling involved over 80 talented community volunteers including writers, actors, stage crew and video production and effects. The bulk of the filming … Continue reading Successful Filmmaker Initiative Launched
Building Muscles with Story Circles (or, overcoming lazy brain bias)
Collaboration – getting people to share information and co-create solutions is critical to a healthy community’s success. However, it is not always easy to achieve. Our biases impact how we … Continue reading Building Muscles with Story Circles (or, overcoming lazy brain bias)
Question and Response: Free Speech
Q: What does Free Speech mean to you? Answers from Community TV Volunteers on Martin Luther King Day 2017: Ability to express who I am. Not a right, a need … Continue reading Question and Response: Free Speech
The Ghostlight Project Launch
Extending an invitation to friends of WPAA-TV that are committed to Safety of persons, regardless of race, class, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. Diverse opinions, dissent, and argument are not … Continue reading The Ghostlight Project Launch
What are your filters?
How do you listen? What is in the media you select? Are you open to discovery, conversation, and engagement to be better informed, or have you set our own filters … Continue reading What are your filters?
When You Stop in to Complain …
When you stop in to complain … we first determine if you know anything about us. If you do not pass the quick assessment of knowing us, then you will … Continue reading When You Stop in to Complain …
The Flavors: Citizen Media
Citizen Media is not Public Affairs Programming, although it can be done in the interest of the public. Citizen Media can be raw or highly produced. It is often a … Continue reading The Flavors: Citizen Media
Why choose symbols to express yourself
Free Speech: Symbolic protest against injustice and name-calling of those that protest injustice. All lawful. If you want to be heard or make-a-difference you choose your platform and symbols and … Continue reading Why choose symbols to express yourself
Does copyright law provides us with a First Amendment-free zone
Whether the alleged use is a ‘political statement’ or not, whether it is a ‘parody’, or not: the decision for someone to express themselves—whether quoting a news article, an opponent … Continue reading Does copyright law provides us with a First Amendment-free zone
Atypical Media Organization
The term ‘media organization’ means “a person or entity engaged in disseminating information to the general public through a newspaper, magazine, other publication, radio, television, cable television, or other media … Continue reading Atypical Media Organization