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KEN FREED
Ken Freed is an
internationally published writer and speaker specialising in new media and the
cultural power of interactivity itself. He advocates interactive global sense.
He is the author of two research reports from Financial Times Media,
"Global Markets for Interactive Television" (2000), which says the
smart money is on both personalization and privacy, and "Opportunities in
Educational Television" (1998,) which calls for developing markets by
developing minds,.
A veteran media journalist, he writes for Cablevision,TV Technology, and
Extra Extra, with special contributions to Kagan Euromedia, He's written for
Cable (FT), Cable World, Broadcast Engineering, Convergence, Daily
Spectrum, Video Age Int'l, Interactive Jumpstart, Internet Week, Inter@active
Week, and other industry or consumer magazines. He was the managing editor
of Cablevision in the mid-Eighties. He's published nearly 1000 articles
and essays since 1976.
The current discourse about "vision" within the media industry, in
part, may be traced to his 1994 "Compelling Visions" article in Convergence.
His subsequent "TV Visions" column, published from 1995 to 1997 by the
Interactive Television Association (now AIM), featured conversations with
leading media visionaries discussing the cultural impact of the new interactive
networks. In 1996, AIM honoured him as a "Big Thinker" for his
writings on media's social effects. He seeks to expand the dialogue through his
new webzine at Media-Visions.Com.
As a sampler of his work as speaker, Ken Freed spoke about interactive
journalism at Internet World Asia '99 in Hong Kong, talked about interactive TV
and educational media at the first-ever Internet World India '98 in Dehli, and
spoke about network democracy at the Spring Internet World '98 in Los Angeles,
At the first Internet World Colombia '97 in Bogota, he presented his proposal
for Deep Media Literacy, which was first introduced at NAB97 for the National
Association of Broadcasters.At NAB98, he talked about educational media
opportunities in the Microsoft Internet Theatre. Other trade show appearances
include a panel on public perceptions of direct broadcast satellite services at
the Global DBS Summit in Denver, his hometown, and from Denver he recently spoke
about the future of interactive advertising to the Argentine Advertising
Agencies Association in Buenos Aires, the address delivered live by satellite
via a video uplink.
To illustrate the kinds of hands-on media stories he can tell, Ken co-ordinated
the Denver leg of the very first 1989 Jason Project by the team that found the
Titanic -- two weeks of live, interactive satellite telecasts from the bottom of
the Mediterranean Sea satcast to a dozen science museum in North America. He
produced documentaries for community cable in the Eighties, yet he started in
broadcasting as a disk jockey in college radio back in 1969. He was a speech and
theatre major.
Ken Freed earned a 1988 bachelor of arts in journalism and communication from
the University Without Walls at Loretto Heights College in Denver. He followed
that work with advanced graduate research into modern communication theory, done
from Denver via distance learning through an individualised master of arts
program at Antioch University in Ohio.
Learning by teaching, he's taught adult education writing and communication
classes since 1977. He created the Writing From Within course in 1981 at
Denver Free University. Teaching is how he started speaking, along the way
discovering a knack for storytelling that touches hearts.
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