Environmental groups in Charlottesville and Albemarle County will celebrate Earth Week with a series of events designed to create awareness of sustainability initiatives in our community. One of those is Discover Transportation Freedom, a program of the Alliance for Community Choice in Transportation (ACCT), an area non-profit that seeks to help the community learn to take advantage of other ways to get around. In my capacity as Program Officer of Charlottesville Tomorrow, I interviewed ACCT Executive Director Zachary Shahan on board the Route 7 bus to find out more.
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Wordplay needs teams to support literacy efforts
On April 23rd, dozens of three-person teams from the area will descend on the Omni Hotel to do battle for a good cause. Literacy Volunteers Charlottesville Albemarle will hold a fundraiser called Wordplay, and it’s something of an evolution for the group. For the past four years the group raised money with a spelling bee for grown-ups, but expanded the game this year to include trivia and word puzzles.
I recently spoke with Beth Golden, the executive director of Literacy Volunteers Charlottesville Albmarle, and game designer Debra Weiss. This is a ten minute interview about the event, and take a listen to find out more about the game. They’re still looking for teams and sponsors.
Perceptions and the Gender Gap
In today’s show, adapted from an article published this month on the Oscar Web site written by Anne Bromley, a senior editor/writer for UVa Media Relations, we look at a recent study by University of Virginia Sociologist Elizabeth Gorman which said, no matter how the data was sliced or certain variables controlled: women say they have to work harder than men.
The statement, “Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good,†may not be totally off the mark in the workplace states a recent study by University of Virginia Sociologist Elizabeth Gorman and Julie Kmec of Washington State University.
For more information about the show or to see the full text, visit the Oscar Show’s blog.
Privacy & Facebook
In today’s show, adapted from an article published this month on the Oscar Web site written by Andrea Arco, marketing director for the School of Engineering and Applied Science we observe at the research of Adrienne Felt, a fourth-year computer science major in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, concerning privacy issues surrounding social networking platforms.
Facebook, the social networking platform that has redefined communications, has millions of users. According to University of Virginia computer science major Adrienne Felt, all of these users should be concerned about security.
Felt, a fourth-year student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at UVa, leads a research project on privacy issues surrounding social networking platforms and is investigating the information sharing that occurs when users download a Facebook application — a program that allows the user to interact with other users in interesting ways, from sharing music to playing games…
For more information about the show or to see the full text, visit the Oscar Show’s blog.
Local woman compares life in Mumbai with Charlottesville
Three years ago, I began producing features on South Asian culture for the Charlottesville Podcasting Network. On one of my recent trips to India, I met with Suzanne Manair, a doctoral candidate from the University of Virginia who is currently living in Mumbai. She is there for a year to accompany her husband who is doing research for his thesis. Suzanne shares some of her experiences in the financial capital of India and compares life in Mumbai with Charlottesville.
CRN: CBS Correspondent Kim Dozier talks about her recovery from injuries sustained in Iraq
CBS News Correspondent Kimberly Dozier is recovering from injuries she received in Iraq a year ago while serving as the Bagdhad bureau chief. The U.Va graduate joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss what happened to her and her camera crew, and what it’s been like on the road to recovery.
CRN: Republican Shaun Kenney and Democrat Mark Bergman discuss state politics
Shaun Kenney is with the Virginia Republican Party and Mark Bergman is with the Virginia Democratic Party. They join Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss state politics in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre last week. Kenney says it’s important to avoid using the incident for political gain. Bergman agrees, and says Virginians are still in shock and helping the Tech community regroup.
Other conversations include preparations for this year’s elections, when all 140 seats in the General Assembly will be decided.
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
| There are more than 70 million evangelical Christians living in America, many of whom embrace a conservative outlook. Former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges has written a new book that warns against what he calls the intolerance espoused by a small minority. He joins Coy Barefoot on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. |
The 2007 Jefferson Muzzles
The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression has handed out its annual Jefferson Muzzles to groups that have somehow curtailed free expression in the last year. I spoke with director Robert O’Neil to get more details on this year’s batch.
Charlottesville–Right Now: Steve Safran of Lost Remote gives an update on new media
| Steve Safran is the Senior Vice President for Media 2.0 at new media consulting firm AR&D and the Managing Editor of Lost Remote. He joined Coy for a discussion on the latest from the world of new media. He says newspapers and radio seem to get it, but television stations are very comfortable in their existing business model. Safran also says television news did a terrible job of putting this week’s market sell-off into perspective.
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 Steve Safran of Lost Remote |