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Start: 05/12/2010 - 01:00 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 Making Your Media Matter is a conference for established and aspiring filmmakers, non-profit communications leaders, funders and students looking to learn and share cutting-edge practices for making their media matter. read more

Start: 08/12/2010 - 01:00 End: 08/15/2010 - 01:00 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 The New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative, Tech Gate Vienna, the CUWiN Foundation, and the Acorn Active Media Foundation are pleased announce that the annual International Summit for Community Wireless Networks will take place in Vienna, Austria from August 12-15, 2010. read more

Start: 03/05/2010 - 10:00 End: 03/05/2010 - 13:15 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 FCC General Counsel Austin Schlick and former National Economic Council member Susan Crawford will be among the speakers at a March 5 half-day conference on “An FCC for the Internet Age: Reform and Standard-setting.” Sponsored by Public Knowledge, Silicon Flatirons and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). read more

Start: 03/27/2010 - 12:00 End: 03/27/2010 - 18:15 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 If you are as concerned that our democracy is being usurped by today’s media, communities are being harmed by the absence of local issues covered by mainstream media, and diverse groups lack access to the media, now is the time to act: Attend the LA Media Reform Conference. read more

Start: 04/08/2011 - 01:00 End: 04/11/2011 - 01:00 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 The National Conference for Media Reform is the largest and highest-profile gathering of media reform advocates in the nation. The conference brings together thousands of activists, media makers, educators, journalists, scholars, policymakers and engaged citizens to meet, tell their stories, share tactics, listen to great speakers and build the movement for better media in America. read more

Start: 04/08/2010 - 00:00 End: 04/09/2010 - 00:00 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 Art Activists will be working with Critical Encounters and Columbia College Chicago to organize a major media Summit at Columbia in the spring of 2010. There will be workshops covering, the "Future of Media" to "Corporate Ownership" to a look at "copyright and net neutrality." read more

Start: 03/04/2010 - 09:45 End: 03/04/2010 - 18:30 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 Announcing News and Inclusion: Journalism and the Politics of Diversity, a symposium at Stanford University, March 4, 2010, featuring scholars from Australia, Finland, Singapore, Canada, The Netherlands, England, and the United States. read more

Start: 04/29/2010 - 10:00 End: 04/30/2010 - 18:15 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 This conference is designed to challenge and dissect the fundamental assumptions and biases embedded within the media debate. The event will bring together journalists including Free Press board member and The Nation's National Political reporter John Nichols. It will also feature lawyers, scholars, technologists, and policymakers to analyze and discuss the evolution of journalism into the digital age. read more

Start: 07/23/2010 - 01:00 End: 07/24/2010 - 01:00 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 DemocracyFest is a political festival for activists which features trainings, speakers and entertainment; teaching people how to make a difference and have fun doing it! DemocracyFests have been held in Massachusetts, Texas, California, New Hampshire, Virginia and Vermont. Over 4,000 activists have been trained to help on campaigns and make a difference in their communities. read more

Start: 03/09/2010 - 01:00 End: 03/11/2010 - 01:00 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 Since 2004, We Media conferences in Los Angeles, New York, London, Miami and Buenos Aires have informed, inspired and ignited companies, organizations and individuals seeking to understand and profit from the “power of us.” Big thinkers, accomplished achievers and uncommon innovators give We Media its Whuffie. read more

Start: 06/17/2010 - 01:00 End: 06/20/2010 - 01:00 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 The Allied Media Conference cultivates media strategies for a more just and creative world. Held every June in Detroit, MI, it is the primary point of intersection in the U.S. for alternative media makers and committed social justice activists from around the country. read more

Start: 02/11/2010 - 00:00 End: 02/12/2010 - 00:00 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 Making Your Media Matter is a conference for established and aspiring filmmakers, non-profit communications leaders, funders and students looking to learn and share cutting-edge practices for creating media that matters. read more

Start: 06/09/2010 - 00:00 End: 06/12/2010 - 00:00 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 More Information Coming read more

Start: 06/22/2010 - 00:00 End: 06/26/2010 - 00:00 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 Mark your calendars, the US Social Forum II is going to be held on June 22-26, 2010. Join members and thousands of organizers from social movements (including NOA leadership and staff) from across the United States and globally. USSF organizers are reaching out to young people, people of color, unionists, laid off and unorganized workers, welfare recipients, veterans, persons with disabilities, indigenous people, freedom fighters, collectives, and many others. read more

Start: 07/22/2010 - 00:00 End: 07/25/2010 - 00:00 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 Netroots Nation amplifies voices by providing an online and in-person campus for exchanging ideas and learning how to be more effective in using technology to influence the public debate. Through our annual convention we strengthen our community, inspire action and serve as an incubator for ideas that challenge the status quo and ultimately affect change in the public sphere. read more

Start: 06/15/2010 - 00:00 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 Smart phones, social networking and the “internet of things” let us integrate the online world and computers more deeply into our lives. Should we have to give up our freedom and privacy in to reap the benefits of a constant connection to friends and information? What about those who aren’t participating because they lack access to technology and knowledge — or who simply prefer more traditional forms of connection? To address those critical questions and more, the 20th annual ACM Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference converges for the first time ever in Silicon Valley. read more

Start: 12/14/2009 - 09:30 End: 12/14/2009 - 12:30 Timezone: Etc/GMT-5 Join Media Access Project with Keynote speaker Mark Lloyd, Chief Diversity Officer, FCC for a discussion about social media’s impact on telecommunications policy, and their implications for the future of journalism on online, print, and over-the-air platforms. read more