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Media Center (other)
Media center or media centre may refer to: Audio-visual software and devices * Entertainment center, a furniture housing electronics for media consumption * Home cinema, also commonly referred to as a dedicated "home theater" or "home media room" * Home theater PC, media computer designed for living-room or Home cinema use ** JRiver Media Center, a multimedia application for Windows computers ** Kodi, open source media center, cross-platform software formerly named XBMC and originally named Xbox Media Center ** MediaPortal Media Center, a free alternative to Windows Media Center ** Portable Media Center ** Sally Project, open source software, designed for touchscreen Windows machines ** Western Digital Media Center ** Windows Media Center, Microsoft PC software application for home theater Journalism * International Broadcast Centre at a major sports event such as the Olympic Games * Independent Media Center or Indymedia * Women's Media Center * Women Media Center * Internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entertainment Center
An entertainment center (or centre), also known as an entertainment complex or a home entertainment center, is a piece of furniture designed to house consumer electronic appliances and components. It is sometimes a large cabinet with an exterior styled to appear like upscale furniture and an interior dedicated to electronic gear, such as home audio, television sets and video game equipment. Antique or modern reproduction armoires or standing cabinets are used for entertainment centers, as are shelves and shelving systems. Part of the purpose of an entertainment center is to neatly house the many wires and cables that are associated with audio and video components, and they often contain dedicated areas (either drawers or other spaces) for storage of records, videotapes, CDs and/or DVDs. A TV stand is usually a smaller item of furniture, large enough to support an average television of the 1970s or 1980s (with a boxy footprint), often with some additional media components in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Media Center
The Independent Media Center, better known as Indymedia, is an open publishing network of activist journalist collectives that report on political and social issues. Following beginnings during the 1999 Carnival Against Capital and 1999 Seattle WTO protests, Indymedia became closely associated with the global justice movement. The Indymedia network extended internationally in the early 2000s with volunteer-run centers that shared software and a common format with a newswire and columns. Police raided several centers and seized computer equipment. The centers declined in the 2010s with the waning of the global justice movement. Content and distribution Indymedia is a website for citizen journalism that promotes activism and counters mainstream media news and commentary perspectives. Indymedia originated from protests against the concentrated ownership and perceived biases in corporate media reporting. The first Indymedia node, attached to the Seattle anti-corporate globali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civic Media Center
The Civic Media Center (CMC) is a nonprofit infoshop, library and reading room in Gainesville, Florida, United States. It was set up in 1993 and in 2009 received the book collection of activist Stetson Kennedy. History The Civic Media Center (CMC) was set up as an infoshop and library in 1993 in Gainesville, Florida. Founded as a nonprofit organization, the center was first located at 1021 West University Avenue, near to the University of Florida and housed a library cataloged by the American Council of Learned Societies. It was financially supported by benefit campaigns and member donations. It held its eighth birthday party at the Thomas Center in 2001, with folk singer Doug Gauss. For its twenty fifth birthday it hosted a talk from Amy Goodman. The CMC began an annual fundraising dinner program in 1999 called SpringBoard. Guests pay from $10 to $20 for a dinner cooked by volunteers and speakers have included Diane Roberts, Nadine Smith and Ann Wright. The CMC moved location ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
School Media Center
A school library (or a school media center) is a library within a school where students, and sometimes their parents and staff have access to borrow a variety of resources, often literary or digital. The goal of a school library or media center is to ensure that all members of the school community have equitable access "to books and reading, to information, and to information technology". A school library or media center "uses all types of media . . . is automated, and utilizes the Internet s well as booksfor information gathering." School libraries are distinct from public libraries because they serve as "learner-oriented laboratories which support, extend, and individualize the school's curriculum... A school library serves as the center and coordinating agency for all material used in the school." History of school libraries Library services to schools have evolved since the late 1800s from public or state library book wagons, to informal classroom collections to what exi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hybrid Library
Hybrid library is a term used by librarians to describe libraries containing a mix of traditional print library resources and the growing number of electronic resources. Overview Hybrid libraries are mixes of traditional print material such as books and magazines, as well as electronic based material such as downloadable audiobooks, electronic journals, e-books, etc. Hybrid libraries are the new norm in most public and academic libraries. It seems that the term "hybrid library" was first coined in 1998 by Chris Rusbridge in an article for '' D-Lib Magazine''. Hybrid libraries evolved in the 1990s when electronic resources became more easily available for libraries to acquire for public use. Initially these electronic resources were typically access to material distributed on media such as CD-ROM or searches of specialised databases. OCLC helped push libraries towards acquiring digital resources by providing a centralized technology resource for participating libraries. Now, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center
The San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, commonly known as Indybay, is the San Francisco Bay Area branch of the Independent Media Center, an all-volunteer organization which operates a community news website, ''Indybay.org'', and in June 2004, began publishing a free news magazine, ''Fault Lines''. Foundation Indybay was established in early 2000; the domain name was registered on March 23, 2000; and by August 23, 2000, the website was online and functional. ;Fault Lines ''Fault Lines'' is a free news magazine published by Indybay. It is produced and distributed by an all-volunteer collective. The first issue was published in June 2004. Focus Indybay was initially closely tied to Media Alliance, a San Francisco-based media resource and advocacy center for media workers, non-profit organizations, and social justice activists. One early Indybay project was a page exposing bad landlords. Another event that helped pull in many early Indybay volunteers was the National As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Middle East Media Center
The International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC) is an independent news organization run by Palestinians living in the State of Palestine, working together with international journalists, who report on events in both Israel and the State of Palestine. The IMEMC is published in English, whilst briefly providing Spanish coverage in 2008, supported by volunteers, though this was stopped due to lack of funding. Starting as a single section of the Palestinian Centre for Rapprochement between People (PCR) website in 2002 called “Pal Media Alert”, it gained its own identity when founded as its own entity in 2003 when its own separate website was created under Ghassan Andoni. IMEMC was created as the PCR upon reviewing international media found many international sources didn't send journalists into Palestine but that they had them stationed in Jerusalem reporting from information from the Government Press Office. "The IMEMC sought to connect media activists worldwide with the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women Media Center
The Women Media Center (WMC) is a non-profit organization created in 2005 to promote women journalists and women in the media in Pakistan. Based in Karachi, Pakistan, the Center promotes gender equality in Pakistani mass media. About WMC was founded by Fauzia Shaheen in 2005, and she continues to serve as its executive director and general secretary. The organization's main objectives are to conduct research, educate women in various professions of the mass media, media and to promote creativity and empowerment among Pakistani women writers and journalists. Women Media Center organizes workshops in Pakistan to improve the skills of women journalists and holds seminars and training workshops. Mission The following mission statement is from the Women Media Center Website. The Women Media Centre's mission is multidimensional; *To provide professional environment and to increase women's participation in the mainstream media through training, research and education. *To improve w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Media Center
Women's Media Center (WMC) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit women's organization in the United States founded in 2005 by writers and activists Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem."About Us." Women's Media Center. Retrieved February 16, 2010. Led by President Julie Burton, WMC's work includes advocacy campaigns, giving out awards, media and leadership training, and the creation of original content. Women's representation in media The Women's Media Center "works to ensure women are powerfully and visibly represented in the media" and "to diversify the media in its content and sources, so that the stories and perspectives of women and girls are more accurately portrayed." The organization convenes panels, issues reports, organizes grassroots campaigns, and meets wit ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Broadcast Centre
The International Broadcast Centre (IBC) is a temporary hub for broadcasters during major sport events. It is also known as the International Press Center (IPC) or Main Press Center (MPC). FIFA World Cup IBC/MPC host cities *1958: – Gothenburg *1962: – Santiago *1966: – London *1970: – Mexico City *1974: – Munich *1978 FIFA World Cup, 1978: – Buenos Aires *1982 FIFA World Cup, 1982: – Madrid *1986 FIFA World Cup, 1986: – Mexico City *1990 FIFA World Cup, 1990: – Rome *1994 FIFA World Cup, 1994: – Dallas and Los Angeles *1998 FIFA World Cup, 1998: – Paris *2002 FIFA World Cup, 2002: ** – Seoul ** – Yokohama *2006 FIFA World Cup, 2006: – Munich *2010 FIFA World Cup, 2010: – Johannesburg *2014 FIFA World Cup, 2014: – Rio de Janeiro *2018 FIFA World Cup, 2018: – Moscow *2022 FIFA World Cup, 2022: – Doha *2026 FIFA World Cup, 2026: – Dallas *2030 FIFA World Cup, 2030: – Madrid *2034 FIFA World Cup, 2034: – Riyadh 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Cinema
A home cinema, also called home theater, is a home entertainment audio-visual system that seeks to reproduce a movie theater experience and mood using consumer grade electronic video and audio equipment and is set up in a private home. In the 1980s, home cinemas typically consisted of a movie pre-recorded on a LaserDisc or VHS tape; a LaserDisc Player or VCR; and a large-screen cathode-ray tube TV set, although sometimes CRT projectors were used instead. In the 2000s, technological innovations in sound systems, video player equipment, TV screens and video projectors changed the equipment used in home cinema set-ups and enabled home users to experience a higher-resolution screen image, improved sound quality and components that offer users more options (e.g., many Blu-ray players can also stream movies and TV shows over the Internet using subscription services such as Netflix). The development of Internet-based subscription services means that 2020s-era home theatre users ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windows Media Center
Windows Media Center (WMC) is a discontinued digital video recorder and media player created by Microsoft. Media Center was first introduced to Windows in 2002 on Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE). It was included in Home Premium and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista, as well as all editions of Windows 7 except Starter and Home Basic. It was also available on Windows 8 Pro and Windows 8.1 Pro as a paid add-on. It was discontinued as of Windows 10 and the operating system also removes all of Windows Media Center during an upgrade from previous versions of Windows, although it can reportedly be unofficially reinstalled using a series of Command Prompt commands. Media Center can play slideshows, videos and music from local hard drives, optical drives and network locations. Users can stream television programs and films through selected services such as Netflix. Content can be played back on computer monitors or on television sets through the use of devices called W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
