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cultural industries workshops & training t-com policy events about archive	Freedom, Creativity and Risk in the Media Arts http://www.takingliberties2005.org/welcome.php National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) 2005 Conference Hosted by Scribe Video Center September 28 - October 2, 2005 Philadelphia, PA Future of the Internet: Brave New Frontier or Brave New World? September 29, 2005 The Internet has been called the most democratic medium ever with its wide-open format that allows anyone with a computer to publish nearly anything they want. How will new broadband and IP technologies change the way we think of and use the internet? How will ever-increasing mobility change the way we relate to technology and each other? Will these advances expand our freedom to create and communicate or will it be hampered by private interests? 4:00- 5:30 pm Panelists: Kenyatta Cheese, EyeBeam Atelier Joann Hovis, Columbia Technology Consultants Theeba Soundararajan, Third World Majority Moderator: Fred Johnson, UMass Boston Links: From the Jeff Chester/Center for Digital Democracy Community Telecom Toolkiit Best Practices for Public Interest Broadband 1999 Cisco Whitepaper The Center for International Media Action	"The potential integration of texts, images and sounds in the same system, interacting from multiple points, in chosen time [real or delayed] along a global network, in conditions of open and affordable access, does fundamentally change the character of communication." From The Network Society, by Manuel Castells Digitization: Discrete media - film, electronic media, photography, print - are becoming common flows of digitized content, transported through an interactive communication infrastructure for end use by digital information and software applications. Fred Johnson