ABSTRACT
This chapter follows the approach in its examination of the community media centres and public access television producers that were part of the California Community Media Exchange (CACMX). It addresses CACMX as a whole and shows that while it was a nascent macro assemblage of community media centres and producers at the beginning of the 2011/12 fieldwork, it destabilized only a few months later. The chapter centres will be addressed individually here, focusing on Davis Media Access (DMA) and Community Media Center of Marin. The community media centres in California had been coming under increasing threat due to changes in their funding arrangements in the five years leading up to the 2011/12 period of fieldwork, with many forced to close as a result. DMA had previously experimented with YouTube, Blip, and Vimeo, but ultimately they did not regard commercial third party video platforms as suitable for their needs, and so did not use them to distribute the producers' video.
