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Wire your mind
Alexia Lang
Issue date: 10/5/09 Section: News
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WiredMind is a student-driven digital media project completely online that combines video, radio and written word to create an outlet for students to get alternative news.
First founded in 2001 by Peter Morello, associate professor of Communications Studies, Nicole English, lecturer in Continuing Education, and Mike Strong, lecturer in Continuing Education, among others, WiredMind has been mostly inactive over the past few years.
Strong and English have kept the Web site going by themselves.
But during a radio class taught by Morello over the summer, senior Matthew Williams, a Political Science student, was struck with the idea to revive the media outlet.
"It was like, OK this is real," Williams said about the feeling he had after he talked to Morello and other classmates about it. "We are really going to do this. It's a fun project."
Now a few months later, Williams said he and about 10 other students and faculty are inching closer to getting everything up and running.
The only major hold-up they have encountered is getting approved by the Student Government Association as an official organization.
However, the team is not letting that get in the way.
"What we want to do up until we become an official organization is sort of guerilla journalism - taking the cameras out and shooting some shows," Williams said.
A vital component of WiredMind is student submissions and input.
Williams said he is open to any and all ideas.
"That's what we really want - to have a bunch of students who have a bunch of ideas."
The WiredMind Web site will be made up of a few regular shows, with the rest being coverage of topics in which students show interest.
"It's not supposed to be anything specific, so it can be whatever it needs to be," Williams said. "We are not trying to turn into a campus television station. We are not trying to be the city-wide radio station. We are not trying to compete with KCUR. This is really a student media project."
Aside from locating equipment, Williams has spent the past few months making contacts with students, professors and organizations willing to help get WiredMind off the ground.
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Damade Deng
posted 10/08/09 @ 9:52 PM CST
I am a political science student therefore, wiremind sounds great to me.I belief, through wiremind i would get all the news relating to my career on time and sufficiently. (Continued…)
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