[iDC] introduction

[Ellen Goodman]

Hello all, I'm a law professor at Rutgers University - Camden.  Trebor
asked me to participate in this conference because of my work on public
media policy in a networked environment.    The U.S. system of public
media is premised on 20th century forms of media consumption and
production, and notions of the commercial/noncommercial divide.  At the
same time, the goals for public media are better suited to the digital
space than they were to the analog sphere:  participation, diversity,
citizenship, experimentation, technological and artistic innovation.
These discussions about the function and definition of noncommercial
production and amateur/citizen participation in our informational
environment are central to discussions of public media reform and
support.  Does it remain important to have an advertising-free
communicative sphere?  How do we define sponsorship in the new
environment?  How do authority and editorial control co-exist with
distributed production and engagement?  What are the roles of
philanthropists and government in sustaining a noncommercial media space
and what is the place/function of social media in this space?  These are
some of the questions I'm exploring.   

 

Ellen P. Goodman

Professor

Rutgers University School of Law

217 North Fifth Street

Camden, N.J. 08102-1203

ellgood at camlaw.rutgers.edu

856-225-6393 (p)

856-225-6516 (f)

Selected papers
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=333377> 

 

 

 

 

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