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Fred
Johnson
M.A.,
Communication Arts, University of Cincinnati
Assistant
Professor, Community Media and Media Arts Policy
Office:
W-3-154-14
Phone
number: 617-287-7174
fred.johnson@umb.edu
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Professor
Johnson is a relative new-comer to CPCS. He was hired in 2002
to help lead our new undergraduate major, community media and
technology. He is nationally and internationally known as a program
developer, administrator, and evaluator, as a media educator,
researcher, and consultant, and as a documentary producer and
director. His 25-plus years of experience in the field include
expertise in all CMT curriculum areas including: communication
theory, media analysis, telecommunication policy, and cutting-edge
media technologies.
Recent
Publications:
Book
Review, The Daily Planet , essays by Pat Aufderheide,
University of Minnesota Press ,
written for Community Media Review [CMR], Social Applications
Issue , forthcoming, Spring 2002.
“Community
Lite: Thoughts on Surviving While Failing Miserably,” for
Community Media Review , Future of Access Issue,
Spring 2000.
Documentaries:
Co-Producer/Co-Director,
work-in-progress, "Coal Black Voices,"
a documentary on the poetry and work of the Affrilachian Poets,
a movement of African-American writers and artists; commissioned
by Kentucky Educational Television, broadcast regionally on Public
Television, Fall 2001.
Producer/Director,
“ Cratis Williams: Living The Divided Life ,”
a documentary on the life of an Appalachian scholar, folklorist,
cultural historian, and balladeer, funded by the Kentucky Arts
Council, Ohio Arts Council, Kentucky Educational Television, and
the Kentucky Humanities Council, targeted for regional Public
Television, 2002.
Evaluates
the following competencies:
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Media Literacy
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Analyzing Media
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Media and Community Building
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Using Technology
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Developing a Media Strategy
Links:
http://www.comtechreview.org/spring-summer-2005/000336.html
http://digitalliteracy.mwg.org/bios.html#johnson
http://www.mwg.org/production/documentary/voices/index.shtml
