Community Communications

The Center for Community Communications offers trainings, events and co-production opportunities for community journalists, producers, activists and artists.

Current Projects:

Community communications is the study and practice of "media created to allow individuals to tell the stories and have the conversations necessary for their own self directed development as citizens." (Johnson and Menichelli, 2007). 

Open Journalism Initiative

Open Media Centers Network

Open Media Working Group:
Community communications media collaborative.

Sustainability Design /Media Synergy
Ecovillage Design Education: Local-Global Design/Media Centers Networks.
Living and Learning Networks, Centers and Partnerships for Villages, Neighborhoods, and Communities.

Past Projects:

Community Communications Living and Learning Series:

• Social Networks and Social Change: Collaborating to Create Sustainable Community Media - A Lunch and Learn Event: Monday, April 14, 12 - 2 pm with Erik Hungerbuhler, E-Organizer, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, Aaron Marshall, Director of Sales and Marketing, Digital Business Solutions and David Silverman, Adena Center and the Open Journalism Project. At Adena Center, Galen Building, Zorn & River Rd, Louisville,, KY USA (Directions)
  
• Science Cafe: Cancer Predictors and Beyond: Friday Mar 28, 5:30 - 7:30 BLUE MOUTAIN COFFEE HOUSE, WINE & TAPAS BAR, 400 E. Main [opposite Slugger Field]

• Become the Media: January 10, 2008: : Sustainable Politics and Community Journalism 2008 The Legislative Session and Beyond -- with Tom Fitzgerald, Kentucky Resources Council, Jerry Hardt, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, and John Hicks, WXBH 92.7 FM
• Community Journalism December 8, 2007: Jim St. Clair, Jennifer Oladipo and John Hicks on News Crafting and the Art of the Interview for Community Media (Radio, TV, Web, Print) Production
• An Evening With Jan Carew: A Celebration of Reading and Writing December 6, 2007:
• Do-It-Yourself Radio: Community Radio Training-Fall - Winter 2007-2008, Wednesdays, with John Hicks and the volunteer staff of WXBH-FM.
• Technology, Community, Opportunity: -November 1, 2007: Digital Storytelling Comes of Age. Michael Caporale with Louisville Community Media Practitioners

About the Living and Learning series

Certification in Community Communications
The Adena Center offers Certification in Community Communications through a variety of learning opportunities.