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Plenary and Keynote Sessions
Keynote: Change the Media, Change the World
Closing Plenary: Taking It Home
Opening Plenary: Better Media Starts Here
The FCC at NCMR: A National Town Hall
Democracy Now! Live Broadcast
Journalism and Public Media
Following the Money: Journalism and the Economic Crisis
Egypt, Afghanistan and Beyond: Independent Journalism and International Crisis
WikiLeaks, Journalism and Modern-Day Muckraking
Journalism and Democracy: Rebuilding Media for our Communities
Public Media Under Attack: Fighting Back and Finding a New Vision
How New Is New? Diversity in Emerging Media
Big News in Boston: The State of Boston Media
Back to the Future: Old-School Journalism Organizations Shaping the Future of Journalism
Collaboration Trumps Competition: Breaking Down Barriers Between Citizens, Newsrooms and Journalists
Journalism Next: Young People as the New Entrepreneurs of Journalism
Creating and Sustaining Citizen Journalism
Tools for Change: Mapping Media in Your Community
The Urban Media Landscape in 2011: A Case Study from Chicago
Good News: Local Journalism that Made a Difference
Social Justice and Movement Building
Policy and Politics
The Next Communications Act: Moving Beyond Silos
The National Broadband Plan: A Bold Start or Missed Opportunity?
How to Fix the Broken FCC
Closing the Digital Divide: Bringing Down Barriers to Broadband
The New Face of Media Concentration: Mega Mergers and Covert Consolidation
What’s Next for Net Neutrality?
Putting the ‘Public’ Back in Public Airwaves: Wireless Policy in the Broadband Era
Connecting Communities: Did the Recovery Act Stimulate More than Debate?
The Future of Privacy in the Age of Google
Policymaker Roundtable: Jonathan Adelstein
Policymaker Roundtable: FCC Staff
Technology and Innovation
Censorship in the Age of Facebook and Twitter
Mobile Democracy: Your Phone Is Political
Hacks and Hackers: Online Organizing and Disaster Response
From Syria to Silicon Valley: Is the Freedom to Connect a Universal Right?
Cutting the Cord: The Future of Video
Pop Culture Warriors: How Online Fan Communities Are Organizing to Save the World
Emerging Technologies for Community-Controlled Infrastructure
Getting out of the Silo: Editing Video as a Community
Media Makers, Culture and the Arts
How Comedy and Satire Can Help Reform the Media
Artists and Advocacy: Engaging Creatives to Create Change
Face to Face with the Future of Public Media
Copyright, Copyleft, Copycenter: Can Copyright and Remix Culture Co-Exist?
The Future of Journalism Is . . . Comics?
Local Media and Culture: What Does It All Mean for the Music Scene?
New Faces of Media Justice
Mr. Radio Goes to Washington: Teaming up to Pass the Local Community Radio Act
Put Your Hands on the Radio
Beyond the Beats: New Perspectives in Hip-Hop Culture
Courting Congress to Strengthen Community Access Television
Open Sourcing Community Media
Workshops and Trainings
Media Literacy for Mobilization: Popular Education Tools for Digital Justice
Keeping It Unreal: Decoding Gender, Race and Reality TV — A Media Literacy Workshop
Who's Influencing Media Policy in Washington?
Tapping the Transformational Power of Networks
The Lobby Game: Kicking Butt in the Halls of Power
Building a Media Reform Network in Boston: A Roundtable Discussion
Cracking the Code: How to Get Your Message Across to the Mainstream Media
In the Belly of the Beast: Washington Insiders and Outsiders Talk Effective Advocacy
Media Reform through Media Education
Information Exchange Forum for Ethnic Media and Media Advocates
Facilitation Fundamentals: Keeping Meetings about Race on Track
MIT Center for Future Civic Media Show-and-Tell
Sandbox: Printmaking for Better Media
Sandbox: Making Media With Your Mobile Phone
Sandbox: Building Community Wireless
Sandbox: DIY Audio Gear
Sandbox: Podcasting
Films
Film: Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women
Film: The Mean World Syndrome: Media Violence & the Cultivation of Fear
Film: Not Just a Game: Power, Politics & American Sports
Film: NPR and PRX's State of the Re:Union: Multimedia Storytelling
Film: Broadcast Blues
Film: Barbershop Punk
Film: Page One: Inside the New York Times
Film: Billionaires' Tea Party: How Corporate America is Faking a Grassroots Revolution