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May 14, 2005
Inside the media showcase
In my capacity as an attendee of the NCMR, I am spending most of my time staffing a table in the Media Showcase, which is a large room at one end of the conference area where organizations are presenting their work, distributing literature, and answering questions of interested passers-by.
Though the room was pretty quiet yesterday, as most of the attendees were getting settled into the opening of the conference, traffic is up significantly today. About a third of the tables are staffed currently, with this number gradually increasing in anticipation of the Media Democracy Showcase. This Showcase is a two hour block of time this evening during the dinner period in which conference attendees are encouraged to visit all of the participating organizations. In other words, it's a chance for on the ground media groups - working on creating independent media, media literacy, media justice, and media policy, among other efforts, to share their work with media activists.
Posted by kfk at May 14, 2005 12:28 PM