By Guest Blogger | January 26th, 2012 By Chris Rogy
Why You Should Watch this Video
On Sunday December 11, 2011 The New York Times published an extensive article illustrating the role of livestream technologies in the Occupy Wall Street movement. The following day, seventeen mediamakers, including members of the Global Revolution livestream team were arrested. Since then, police have increasingly targeted members of independent media and citizens with cameras and media-making equipment, seemingly in order to quell future representations of police brutality and to suppress further momentum of the movement.
What does this all mean? One possible answer points to the power of citizen media asserted throughout the movement. Citizen-created media has been critical in sharing police brutality and the Occupy movement’s agenda with the public since its start on September 17, 2011. In fact, the mainstream media has progressively relied on videos and photographs produced by citizens and livestreamers at Occupy protests, illustrating its powerful [...]
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By Raja Althaibani | December 28th, 2011 هذه المدونة هي الأولى في سلسلة من المدونات في اللغة العربية تهدف إلى تبادل ما لدينا من المواد التدريبية مع الجمهور المتحدث باللغة العربية (انظر إلى المدونة الأساسية في أهم ١٠ نصائح في التصوير و الذي كتبه زميلي كريس مايكل).ل
وبزيادة مطالب التغيير في منطقة الشرق الأوسط، لاحظنا زيادة في التعسف والإنتهاكات للحريات والحقوق كما أننا لاحظنا ايضاً العدد الهائل والمتدفق من الوثائق المرئية -الفيديو – من المنطقة، ملتقطة صدامات، مواجهات ، تعذيب وإنتهاكات. و أصبح الفيديو أداة رئيسية لتوثيق وتسليط الضوء خلال هذه الفترة الحاسمة من المرحلة الانتقالية. والفيديو أداة جديدة على المنطقة ومع تسارع وتيرة الأحداث، صار الكثير من المواطنين العاديين يتعلمون لتطوير قدراتهم من أجل الحصول على أفضل الممارسات والأساليب الفعالة لمواصلة التصوير من اجل توثيق الانتهاكات على أرض الواقع وهنا بعض الأمثلة لعمليات تصوير فعالة من أماكن مثل مصر، واليمن، وسوريا:ح
تم إنتاج هذا الفيديو من قبل ناشطون يمنيون في المجلس التنسيق لشباب ثورة التغير [...]
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By M.J. Moneymaker | December 12th, 2011 Recently, I logged into my Twitter.com account. Twitter users know, this is not a frequent occurrence because most of us use third-party applications like Hootsuite, Tweetdeck or any of the mobile apps. But it is a necessity, especially as an activist, in order to help keep the information on your account safe and secure.
The new twitter setting available is called, “Tweet Media,” and has two options. The first option is important to activists because selecting to check or uncheck this option will either display or not display media (i.e. videos and photos) determined by a user as ‘sensitive content.’ The second option available allows a user to set their account to be categorized as ‘sensitive content.’ Twitter gives this explanation: “If you tweet images or videos that may contain sensitive content, please check this box so that people can be warned before they see it.” Learn more »
Here are [...]
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By Guest Blogger | December 10th, 2011 By Chris Rogy
At a desk densely populated by monitors in downtown Manhattan, I met Josh: Occupier, trendsetter, livestream aficionado. Josh was laid off on September 16th, the day before Occupiers arrived at Zuccotti Park. In the following days, the newly formed movement began to capture his imagination. He was incensed while watching the pepper spray events of September 24th and after was determined to get involved.
You may be asking yourself, what is livestream? And what exactly is Josh curating? Livestream is an emerging technology that allows users to broadcast and view continuous video on the internet. Josh is a livestream curator (but not in the museum sense), more like a TV programmer, the one who coordinates and embeds streams for viewing on a website.
I spoke with Josh about his role curating livestreams for the Occupy Wall Street movement and he agreed to share some insights and tips about livestreaming.
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By Yvonne Ng | December 8th, 2011 This post is part of our Human Rights Day Series: Resources for #Video4Change Activists. More resources can be found on our website.
In the past year, we have witnessed an unprecedented amount of media created by activists, citizen journalists, oral historians, and others who are documenting contemporary protest movements worldwide. As the volume of material continues to grow, questions about how to find, identify, verify, organize, and maintain this media for use as evidence and as historical documentation have become more pressing than ever.
A New York-based collective known as the Activist Archivists, in collaboration with WITNESS, put together this list of tips for #OccupyWallStreet activists to create and share video in ways that support its discoverability, use, and long-term preservation. Many of these pointers are also included in our Top 10 Tips for Filming #Occupy Protests, Arrests, and Police Conduct, but it doesn’t hurt to repeat them!
Tips for [...]
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