Welcome to the Asian American Media tribe, created for discussion around the January 2006 Third Thursdays panel: "the asians are coming, the asians are coming".

Let the discussion begin!

"the asians are coming, the asians are coming"

With the recent announcement of its downsizing, AZN TV, the upstart Asian American cable network, joins the long list of promising but unsuccessful corporate attempts to bring balanced images of Asian Americans into mainstream media. 2005 left us with dubious achievements to celebrate in the mainstream media: the missed coverage of APA communities affected by Hurricane Katrina, continued racism on the radio, and Bai Ling's re-emergence on TV and the big- screen.

However, times are changing. Asian American bloggers, filmmakers, musicians, and artists can now create and publish content online on their own terms--independent of traditional media--in a cheap, easy, and unprecedented fashion.

These same online trends are also responsible in part for the steady decline of traditional media businesses. Revenues for major newspapers, record labels, and film studios are declining, as people are spending more time using online resources like MySpace, Craigslist, Netflix, and Google.

Is this an opportunistic beginning of a revolution in Asian American media, or just a momentary glitch in the matrix? Find out as we ask our panelists of APA publishers, artists, and organizers.


Confirmed panelists include:

Melissa Hung
Editor in Chief, Hyphen
www.hyphenmagazine.com

Robynn Takayama
Independent Radio Producer
www.nonogirl.com

Donald Young
Center for Asian American Media
www.asianamericanmedia.org

Moderated by:

Gary Chou
MANJA, manja.org
Sr. Product Manager, Tribe.net

January's Third Thursdays is co-presented by
the Center for Asian American Media
www.asianamericanmedia.org


Related Links:
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www.thelongtail.com/the_long...melt.html

The title of January's TT comes from a poem by
Beau Sia feedbackpoets.tripod.com/sia.html