Vermont Community Access Media is a non profit community media and technology center located in the south end of Burlington, Vermont. VCAM’s mission is to provide local citizens with access to training and state-of-the-art digital video tools as a means of personal, political and artistic self expression. VCAM operates both a public access and a government access cable channel, and we provide equipment and facility rentals and channel time to any VCAM user, for any non-commercial purpose, free of charge.
Public, educational and government (“PEG”) channels permit schools, governments, individuals and groups to provide and receive information about local events, emergencies, and issues. The channels encourage creation of local programming by civic groups and non-profits, cover government and school meetings, and promote localism and civic engagement.. The CAP Act responds to four immediate threats to PEG and these critical local communications. -Alliance for Community Media
In this video, Vice Chair of the VCAM Board of Directors, Kitty Martin, speaks at the 2008 Producer's Recognition Dinner about what it's like to be a board member in the era of new media.
Citizen Media From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Citizen Media, Participatory Media, or Democratic Media refers to any form of content produced by private citizens, which has as its goal to inform and empower all members of society. This includes inclusive production models such as public access, community technology centers, digital storytelling, e-democracy, citizen journalism, zines, Independent Media Centers, blogs, vlogs (video blogs), and podcasting (audio blogs). Click here for additional terms relevant to public access.
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