Patricia Aufderheide
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Aufderheide |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Aufderheide |
| SIGNATURE | AUFDERHEIDE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ethics in Documentary Film Production
can filmmakers finally establish norms for ethical behavior in US documentary production? Two kinds of efforts to establish stronger ethics norms in the United States have emerged since 2014: inside media companies and within independent documentary filmmaking organizations. Both of these efforts have engaged the field productively, although the evolving conversation toward norms setting has only begun and is threatened by a range of forces. This…
Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression in the University Film and Video Association
defending academic freedom has become a top priority for academic associations. Two related concepts, academic freedom and freedom of expression, are important for academic professional associations as articulators and reinforcers of professional norms, as the work of the University Film and Video Association (UFVA) demonstrates in a time of assault upon faculty autonomy. This article describes the two concepts and the difference between the two.…
The Chilling Effects of Obstacles to Accessing, Using, and Sharing In-Copyright Data for Quantitative Research
An international survey of researchers doing text and data mining research, followed by in-depth interviews, shows a range of obstacles. Researchers experience challenges in access, use, sharing of data, and storage. The sources of the problems are high prices for proprietary data, terms of use that inhibit research, and legal policies including copyright, privacy, and antihacking. Consequences of facing this range of obstacles include changing r…
Community Media in a Pandemic
This article examines how US community media organisations anchored to public, educational and government (PEG) cable channels facilitated community resilience during the 2020 pandemic. We find evidence that they served as active “meso-agents” (institutional actors) in local communication networks. Some 230 completed survey responses and 10 open-ended interviews with PEG staffers demonstrated that access media commonly performed essential functio…
The Public Interest and the Information Superhighway
The Digital Future Coalition (1996–2002) was an unprecedented public interest coalition on internet and copyright policy with much fartherranging effects than has been recognized previously. Uniting commercial and noncommercial stakeholders to push back against intellectual property maximalism on the nascent internet, it altered both treaty and legislative language, entered a trope (“balance”) into national discourse on copyright policy, blocked …
Creative Action Under Two Copyright Regimes
A comparison of the behaviors of two creative populations operating within cross-media environments in the United States and Australia tests the comparative effect of the two nations' legal environments on the range of creative expression and on costs of production in increasingly digitized production processes. The U.S. creators have access to the flexible and expansive exception of fair use, while Australian creators' ability to use third-party…
Calculating the consequences of narrow Australian copyright exceptions
Documentarians, fair use, and free expression
This study, based on a survey of 489 documentary filmmakers, is a case study in copyright policy in and through practice. It assesses the changes in documentary production practice around clearance of copyrighted material since the creation of the Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in fair use in 2005. Fair use, an exotic and occasional feature of documentary film in 2004, has become well known and commonly employed. Creative opt…
Copyright, Free Speech, and The Public's Right to Know
This study explores the problems that US journalists face in employing the copyright doctrine of fair use under copyright in their work, and heralds a solution. US copyright policy's expansion of monopoly rights since 1976, harshly shrinking the public domain, has forced journalists to understand their fair use rights better. Fair use permits use of copyrighted material without permission or payment, under some circumstances. Without vigorous app…
Copyright’s paradox - by Neil W. Netanel
This book pulls together more than a decade’s worth of writing and thinking by copyright critics including lawyers such as Yochai Benkler, Jamie Boyle, William Fisher, Wendy Gordon, Peter Jaszi, Larry Lessig, Jessica Litman, and Pamela Samuelson, and nonlawyers such as Siva Vaidhyanathan, Martha Woodmansee, and Kembrew McLeod. Netanel establishes a useful, middle-range take on copyright policy. His book also exposes the weaknesses of critical leg…
Competition and Commons
In the AOL-Time Warner merger, academics, policy activists, and industry rivals argued (against the merging companies) for transparency and inter- activity in communications. This approach, fostering a commons-type environment for both commercial and noncommercial benefit, challenged the supposed naturalness of property arrangements in communications policy. It also offered the structural critique that Streeter (7996) has called for in media refo…
Memoirs of the Feminist Film Movement
Media Education in the ’90s
An Interview with Elia Suleiman
Public Intimacy
Essay| August 01 1997 Public Intimacy: The Development of First-Person Documentary Patricia Aufderheide Patricia Aufderheide Patricia Aufderheide, a Contributing Editor to in These Times, is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at The American University in Washington, DC. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1997) 25 (1): 16–18. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1997.25.1.16 Views Icon …
Public Service Broadcasting in the United States
In the past few years, American public broadcasting has faced severe pressures from conservative politicians, the challenge of preparing for new technologies, and fickle audiences. Yet it may be as well-off today as it ever has been, in part because public broadcasting has always been on the margins of American broadcasting. It has been in more parlous circumstances and in fact has certain advantages at this point. Public broadcasting in the Unit…
The Video in the Villages Project
Underground Cable
Essay| June 01 1994 Underground Cable: A Survey of Public Access Programming Patricia Aufderheide Patricia Aufderheide Patricia Aufderheide is an associate professor in the School of Communication at The American University and Senior Editor of In These Times newspaper. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1994) 22 (1): 5–7. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1994.22.1.5 Views Icon Views Article contents …
Worth reading
An Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. John Storey. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993. 238 pages. $14.95. ISBN 0–8203–1592–5. Queer Words, Queer Images: Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality. Jeffrey Ringer (Ed.). New York: New York University Press, 1994. 348 pages. $12.95. ISBN 0–8147–7441–5. Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature. Ray Jackendoff. New York: Basic Books, 1994. 256 pages. $25.…
Shifting Narratives and Mutable Meanings
In and Out of Africa. 1993. 59 minutes, color. A film by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor. For information contact University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, 2000 Center Street, Fourth Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704, 510-642-0460
Political Extremists, Postmodern Professors, and Other Politically Correct Bedfellows. Review of Patricia Aufderheide, Beyond PC
Nancy Gagnier, Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Political Extremists, Postmodern Professors, and Other Politically Correct Bedfellows. Review of Patricia Aufderheide, Beyond PC: Towards a Politics of Understanding, and Paul Berman, Debating P. C.: The Controversy over Political Correctness on College Campuses, Social Text, No. 36 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 98-105
Latin American Grassroots Video
Research Article| September 01 1993 Latin American Grassroots Video: Beyond Television Patricia Aufderheide Patricia Aufderheide Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 579–592. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-3-579 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon C…
Media Education In The ’90s
has its theoretical roots in left-leaning cultural studies. it is also the inheritor and, to some degree, synthesizer of education projects, versions of which have circulated since the 1920s. Further, literacy acts as an umbrella term for teaching practices that make students aware of the constructedness of mass media: The theory and the practice of literacy don't always meet, but the term is nonetheless generating some fascinating experiments in…
Cable Television and the Public Interest
Since passage of the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, the cable industry has thoroughly demonstrated its failure to serve the public interest, as measured minimally in diversity of sources. Regulating cable's monopolistic tendencies could improve rates and service, and increase the range of sources within the constraints of the commercial marketplace. However, to fulfill the promise of the First Amendment, subsidized noncommercial public …
Public television and the public sphere
The historical ambiguities over what makes U. S. public television public were foregrounded in the 1988 creation of the Independent Television Serivce. This article analyzes those historical ambiguities in relation to the concept of the public sphere, a social realm separate from economic and state interests. It proposes that public television's survival depends on its becoming an electronic space within the public sphere
The Video in the Villages Project
Public Service Broadcasting in the United States
In the past few years, American public broadcasting has faced severe pressures from conservative politicians, the challenge of preparing for new technologies, and fickle audiences. Yet it may be as well-off today as it ever has been, in part because public broadcasting has always been on the margins of American broadcasting. It has been in more parlous circumstances and in fact has certain advantages at this point. Public broadcasting in the Unit…
Latin American Grassroots Video
Research Article| September 01 1993 Latin American Grassroots Video: Beyond Television Patricia Aufderheide Patricia Aufderheide Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 579–592. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-3-579 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon C…
Copyright, Free Speech, and The Public's Right to Know
This study explores the problems that US journalists face in employing the copyright doctrine of fair use under copyright in their work, and heralds a solution. US copyright policy's expansion of monopoly rights since 1976, harshly shrinking the public domain, has forced journalists to understand their fair use rights better. Fair use permits use of copyrighted material without permission or payment, under some circumstances. Without vigorous app…
Public Intimacy
Essay| August 01 1997 Public Intimacy: The Development of First-Person Documentary Patricia Aufderheide Patricia Aufderheide Patricia Aufderheide, a Contributing Editor to in These Times, is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at The American University in Washington, DC. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1997) 25 (1): 16–18. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1997.25.1.16 Views Icon …
Calculating the consequences of narrow Australian copyright exceptions
Shifting Narratives and Mutable Meanings
In and Out of Africa. 1993. 59 minutes, color. A film by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor. For information contact University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, 2000 Center Street, Fourth Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704, 510-642-0460
Upright Citizens in Criminal Records
Criminal justice records provide the historian with a wealth of data on social deviance, and on the role of the judiciary in defining and controlling it. They can as well comment on the most invisible group for the social historian: the “innocent bystanders,” the respectable folk who distinguish themselves neither by their power and influence nor by their deviance. This essay illustrates the value of one kind of judicial data, local criminal inve…
The Transition in Bengal, 1756-1775
Upright Citizens in Criminal Records
Criminal justice records provide the historian with a wealth of data on social deviance, and on the role of the judiciary in defining and controlling it. They can as well comment on the most invisible group for the social historian: the “innocent bystanders,” the respectable folk who distinguish themselves neither by their power and influence nor by their deviance. This essay illustrates the value of one kind of judicial data, local criminal inve…
Universal Service
Journal Article Universal Service: Telephone Policy in the Public Interest Get access Patricia Aufderheide Patricia Aufderheide 1Patricia Aufderheide is the Washington representative of the Office of Communications of the United Church of Christ and a Visiting Professor at the Center for International Studies at Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 37, Issue 1, M…
After the Fairness Doctrine
Journal Article After the Fairness Doctrine: Controversial Broadcast Programming and the Public Interest Get access Patricia Aufderheide Patricia Aufderheide Assistant Professor 1School of Communication, American University, Washington, D.C Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 40, Issue 3, September 1990, Pages 47–72, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1990.tb02270.x Published:…
Public television and the public sphere
The historical ambiguities over what makes U. S. public television public were foregrounded in the 1988 creation of the Independent Television Serivce. This article analyzes those historical ambiguities in relation to the concept of the public sphere, a social realm separate from economic and state interests. It proposes that public television's survival depends on its becoming an electronic space within the public sphere
Media Education In The ’90s
has its theoretical roots in left-leaning cultural studies. it is also the inheritor and, to some degree, synthesizer of education projects, versions of which have circulated since the 1920s. Further, literacy acts as an umbrella term for teaching practices that make students aware of the constructedness of mass media: The theory and the practice of literacy don't always meet, but the term is nonetheless generating some fascinating experiments in…
Cable Television and the Public Interest
Since passage of the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, the cable industry has thoroughly demonstrated its failure to serve the public interest, as measured minimally in diversity of sources. Regulating cable's monopolistic tendencies could improve rates and service, and increase the range of sources within the constraints of the commercial marketplace. However, to fulfill the promise of the First Amendment, subsidized noncommercial public …
Political Extremists, Postmodern Professors, and Other Politically Correct Bedfellows. Review of Patricia Aufderheide, Beyond PC
Nancy Gagnier, Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Political Extremists, Postmodern Professors, and Other Politically Correct Bedfellows. Review of Patricia Aufderheide, Beyond PC: Towards a Politics of Understanding, and Paul Berman, Debating P. C.: The Controversy over Political Correctness on College Campuses, Social Text, No. 36 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 98-105
Latin American Grassroots Video
Research Article| September 01 1993 Latin American Grassroots Video: Beyond Television Patricia Aufderheide Patricia Aufderheide Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 579–592. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-3-579 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon C…
Underground Cable
Essay| June 01 1994 Underground Cable: A Survey of Public Access Programming Patricia Aufderheide Patricia Aufderheide Patricia Aufderheide is an associate professor in the School of Communication at The American University and Senior Editor of In These Times newspaper. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1994) 22 (1): 5–7. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1994.22.1.5 Views Icon Views Article contents …
Worth reading
An Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. John Storey. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993. 238 pages. $14.95. ISBN 0–8203–1592–5. Queer Words, Queer Images: Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality. Jeffrey Ringer (Ed.). New York: New York University Press, 1994. 348 pages. $12.95. ISBN 0–8147–7441–5. Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature. Ray Jackendoff. New York: Basic Books, 1994. 256 pages. $25.…
Shifting Narratives and Mutable Meanings
In and Out of Africa. 1993. 59 minutes, color. A film by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor. For information contact University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, 2000 Center Street, Fourth Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704, 510-642-0460
The Video in the Villages Project
Public Service Broadcasting in the United States
In the past few years, American public broadcasting has faced severe pressures from conservative politicians, the challenge of preparing for new technologies, and fickle audiences. Yet it may be as well-off today as it ever has been, in part because public broadcasting has always been on the margins of American broadcasting. It has been in more parlous circumstances and in fact has certain advantages at this point. Public broadcasting in the Unit…
An Interview with Elia Suleiman
Public Intimacy
Essay| August 01 1997 Public Intimacy: The Development of First-Person Documentary Patricia Aufderheide Patricia Aufderheide Patricia Aufderheide, a Contributing Editor to in These Times, is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at The American University in Washington, DC. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1997) 25 (1): 16–18. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1997.25.1.16 Views Icon …
Media Education in the ’90s
Memoirs of the Feminist Film Movement
Competition and Commons
In the AOL-Time Warner merger, academics, policy activists, and industry rivals argued (against the merging companies) for transparency and inter- activity in communications. This approach, fostering a commons-type environment for both commercial and noncommercial benefit, challenged the supposed naturalness of property arrangements in communications policy. It also offered the structural critique that Streeter (7996) has called for in media refo…
Copyright’s paradox - by Neil W. Netanel
This book pulls together more than a decade’s worth of writing and thinking by copyright critics including lawyers such as Yochai Benkler, Jamie Boyle, William Fisher, Wendy Gordon, Peter Jaszi, Larry Lessig, Jessica Litman, and Pamela Samuelson, and nonlawyers such as Siva Vaidhyanathan, Martha Woodmansee, and Kembrew McLeod. Netanel establishes a useful, middle-range take on copyright policy. His book also exposes the weaknesses of critical leg…
Copyright, Free Speech, and The Public's Right to Know
This study explores the problems that US journalists face in employing the copyright doctrine of fair use under copyright in their work, and heralds a solution. US copyright policy's expansion of monopoly rights since 1976, harshly shrinking the public domain, has forced journalists to understand their fair use rights better. Fair use permits use of copyrighted material without permission or payment, under some circumstances. Without vigorous app…
Documentarians, fair use, and free expression
This study, based on a survey of 489 documentary filmmakers, is a case study in copyright policy in and through practice. It assesses the changes in documentary production practice around clearance of copyrighted material since the creation of the Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in fair use in 2005. Fair use, an exotic and occasional feature of documentary film in 2004, has become well known and commonly employed. Creative opt…
Calculating the consequences of narrow Australian copyright exceptions
Creative Action Under Two Copyright Regimes
A comparison of the behaviors of two creative populations operating within cross-media environments in the United States and Australia tests the comparative effect of the two nations' legal environments on the range of creative expression and on costs of production in increasingly digitized production processes. The U.S. creators have access to the flexible and expansive exception of fair use, while Australian creators' ability to use third-party…
Community Media in a Pandemic
This article examines how US community media organisations anchored to public, educational and government (PEG) cable channels facilitated community resilience during the 2020 pandemic. We find evidence that they served as active “meso-agents” (institutional actors) in local communication networks. Some 230 completed survey responses and 10 open-ended interviews with PEG staffers demonstrated that access media commonly performed essential functio…
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Media studies (12 works) · Art (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Copyright and Intellectual Property (6 works)