Did YouTube solve the problems access television could not?: The construction of space and place in community media production.

Matt Dewey
Communication
UC San Diego

This dissertation is a case study about the emergence and recent transformation of public access television in San Francisco, California. From its development in the early 1970s to its recent incarnation through the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), the project examines public access television (PAT) from the perspective of critical urban geography, using theories based in the production of space and the politics of geographic scale to understand PAT as an important urban infrastructure, and, as an infrastructure, inherently part of the politics of urban space and development in San Francisco.