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MONDAY, MAY 8, 3:30-5:00 P.M.
Reception to follow program.
Program at National Public Radio
635 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC
Seating is Limited! Please RSVP promptly to 202-783-5277.
Free and open to the public.
What responsibility does the new information infrastructure have to the public good and to the advancement of democratic ideals? Every new communications technology this century has spawned a debate over its obligations to the public interest. Should legislation or regulation make possible a non-profit "green space" on line similar to public radio or television?
To discuss these questions, join:
Moderator Murray Horwitz, Vice President of Cultural Programming, National Public Radio [NPR]; Cheryl A. Leanza, Deputy Director, Media Access Project; Mark Lloyd, Executive Director, Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy; David Silver, Founder, Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies; Anthony Wilhelm, Program Director, Communications Policy, Benton Foundation.
Read the Transcript.
Biography
Murray Horwitz is Vice President of Cultural Programming at National Public Radio, where prior to his present appointment, he filled the role of Director of Jazz, Classical Music, and Entertainment Programming. Before joining NPR he was the acting director of the National Endowment for the Arts Opera-Musical Theater Program. His previous positions include service as the deputy press secretary for the New York State Assembly Speaker’s office.
Mr. Horwitz has an extensive background in the performing arts. His many accomplishments include winning twelve ASCAP song writing awards. He wrote song lyrics for John Harbison’s opera, The Great Gatsby, which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1999, and originated and co-wrote the hit Broadway musical Ain’t Misbehavin’. Other theatrical credits include roles as co-author and director of Haarlem Nocturne and Sole Sisters. He has directed and written the scripts for many prominent events, including the 90th anniversary of Carnegie Hall, and for performances at the White House. His written works have been presented through television, film, and theater projects for studios and networks, including HBO, ABC, 20th Century Fox, MGM/United Artists, Universal, and Paramount. Recently Mr. Horowitz’s achievements were recognized by the French government, which honored him as Chevalier of Arts and Letters.
Biography
Cheryl A. Leanza is Media Access Project's Deputy Director. Ms. Leanza joined MAP after working on common carrier issues for more than two years at the Federal Communications Commission. While at the Commission she worked towards the implementation of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Ms. Leanza has focused on the implementation of the Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) noncommercial set-aside, noncommercial radio license allocation, and public disclosure of long distance rates after the FCC detariffed those services.
Ms. Leanza was promoted to Deputy Director after less than a year with Media Access Project and has undertaken significant responsibilities in the day-to-day administrative operations. Ms. Leanza is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and New York, and is an active member in the Federal Communications Bar Association and the D.C. Affairs Section of the D.C. Bar. Other positions include coordinating volunteers from the FCBA's Young Lawyers Committee at the DC Bar's clinic for low income people, and volunteering on the FCBA's charity auction committee.
Biography
Mark Lloyd is the Executive Director of the Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy, a project of the Tides Center. Previously, he worked as a communications attorney in Washington, D.C. representing both commercial and non- commercial communication companies for the firm of Dow, Lohnes & Albertson. He also has nearly twenty years of experience as a broadcast journalist, working as a reporter and producer at public and commercial radio and television stations, and at NBC and CNN. He is the recipient of several awards for his writing and reporting, including an Emmy and a Cine Golden Eagle.
Mr. Lloyd is Vice-President of the Board of Directors of the Independent Television Service (ITVS), an organization which funds independent film makers with grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In addition, he serves on several other national boards and advisory panels for groups including the Center for Policy Alternatives, the Community Technology Center's Network, the NAACP, the National Institute for Media and the Family, the National Urban League, and OMB Watch. In addition, he has served as an advisor to the Smithsonian Institution, the MacArthur Foundation, and the 1992 Clinton Administration on issues of communication policy and communications strategy.
Biography
David Silver is the founder of the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies. Mr. Silver’s interests revolve around the intersections between computers, the Internet, and contemporary American cultures. In particular, his work focuses on the emerging field of cyberculture, its effects upon traditional cities, communities and identities, and its steady encroachment into everyday life. Mr. Silver is working on a book, Critical Cyberculture Studies: Essays and Annotations on an Emerging Field of Study, to be published by Sage in 2001; has chapters forthcoming in Virtual Publics: Policy and Community in an Electronic Age and Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age; and is writing a dissertation entitled "A Tale of Two Online Cities: Diversity and Design in the Blacksburg Electronic Village and the Seattle Community Network."
For the past three years, Mr. Silver has been building the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies at the University of Maryland. He also works with the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, or MITH, a research project funded by the National Endowment for Humanities Challenge Grants Program. Mr. Silver’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Wired Magazine and Scientific American. Next fall he will be teaching a graduate course at Georgetown University, "Cultures of Cyberspace."
Biography
Anthony Wilhelm is Program Director of the Communications Policy Program at the Benton Foundation. The Communications Policy Program is a nonpartisan initiative to promote equity, access, and a diversity of voices in the emerging digital media environment. The program researches and reports on communications technologies and practices, legislative and regulatory debates, and corporate and industry trends. Dr. Wilhelm’s research and publishing has focused on exploring options to address the digital divide in society through progressive public policy and new media such as the Internet and digital television.
Dr. Wilhelm was previously director of information technology research at the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute and coordinator of Cyberdemocracy Project at the Claremont Graduate University. Recently, he was named a finalist for the inaugural World Technology Award for Media & Journalism by the London-based World Technology Network.
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