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Special to The Enterprise I write extensively about media policy in this country, and read even more. Still, I was quite surprised reading a June 21 article in the Columbia Journalism Review in which Davis Media Access is held up — among a mere handful of community media centers across the country — as part [...]
Davis Media Access offers a free orientation to its programs and services each month. Generally held at DMA’s studios on Fifth Street, this month’s orientation will take place instead at the Stephens Branch Library, 315 E. 14th St., from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. DMA is the nonprofit community media center whose main projects are [...]
Special to The Enterprise I first came to Davis Media Access — then Davis Community Television — in late 1995. I was in charge of our college interns and with them produced hours of community-centered programming every week. I believe 1996 was my first taste of local election programming. I watched in fascination as more [...]
Campus/community radio station KDVS — heard over the air at 90.3 FM, and available internationally at www.kdvs.org — is in the midst of its annual fundraising drive, with a goal of $64,000 in pledges by the end of the day Sunday. KDVS, which has studios in Lower Freeborn Hall on the UC Davis campus, broadcasts [...]
By Carolyn Said UC Berkeley freshman Kak Wong pecked away at a laptop at a campus polling station outside Dwinelle Hall on Wednesday, casting his votes for student leaders and ballot initiatives on the second day of a three-day student government election. He was perplexed to hear afterward that one of the ballot initiatives, which would charge each student [...]
Davis Enterprise photographer Wayne Tilcock won first place for his photo of the pepper-spraying of Occupy UC Davis protesters on the UCD Quad last November in the annual competition held by the San Francisco Bay Area Press Photographers Association. Tilcock competed in the category of Occupy Wall Street Movement photography, in which photographers from Reuters, [...]
My mantra as I talk to folks about Davis Media Access is “DMA builds community.” The more we know about each other, the better informed and more compassionate we’ll be. It’s the touchstone I return to, and it’s what keeps me doing this work. This month I’m reporting about local election coverage; digital literacy opportunities for [...]
The Davis Community Network is asking the public to suggest topics for its spring lineup of free classes in areas related to the Internet. Toward that end, the nonprofit invites people who live or work in Davis or the surrounding area to take a short survey at www2.dcn.org/dcn/classes/survey. Previous classes have ranged from “Internet Tools for [...]
