Redefining Media: Media Democracy and Community Radio
A CKUT 20th Anniversary Event
October 19th-21st, 2007
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
Cost: Pay what you can
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Sunday, Oct 21st, 2007, 2:30pm - Shatner Ballroom, 3480 McTavish, 3rd floor
New Technologies and Community Radio
The analog medium of radio takes on the digital age: find out how community radio can work synergistically with emerging technologies.
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Speakers:
Nick Foster, CKUT
Nick Foster, known to listeners as Professor Groove, started WEFUNK Radio with co-host DJ Static in 1996. On WEFUNK, the duo presents a two hour mixshow bringing together hip hop and its roots of funk and soul. Over its decade on-air, the radio show has become a mainstay of the Montreal airwaves (on CKUT, 90.3FM) and garnered an ever-growing online listenership that includes syndication on Apple's iTunes Radio. Esquire magazine proclaimed WEFUNK "ten times more satisfying than the recycled tunes on your iPod," and publications as diverse as Straight No Chaser and Fortune have been quick to agree.
Hugh McGuire, Librivox
Hugh McGuire is a Montreal-based writer, web developer and community builder. He is the founder of LibriVox.org, a volunteer project to make free audio versions of public domain books; and co-founder of Collectik Software, a developer of a web-based on-demand media manager, and other web applications.
In a former life, Hugh was an engineer and worked in the energy sector with a focus on climate change issues, for a large electric utility company, a financial brokerage, and an alternative energy technology company.
Miriam Verberg, Atwater Digital Literacy Project
Miriam Verburg is a web designer, coordinator of the Digital Literacy Project at Atwater Library and an MA student in Media studies at Concordia University. Through her work and study she enjoys finding ways to use creative technology for social change. When not working on, or studying the Internet Miriam enjoys walking her dog, reading and making dinner for friends. She blogs at:http://www.flinkdesign.netblog/mir