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Global Voices Online
  • Citizen Media + Video In Pakistan: A Conversation with Blogger Faisal Kapadia In July I had the pleasure of attending my second Global Voices Citizen Media Summit, this time in Nairobi, Kenya. The Summit is "a meeting of bloggers, activists, and technologists for public discussions and workshops about the rise of online citizen media movements worldwide." Matisse Bustos Hawkes October 23, 2012
  • A Peek Behind the Digital Curtain – Discussing YouTube’s Take Down Policy As my colleagues Sameer Padania, Priscila Néri and Chris Michael who worked on The Hub can attest, curating online video is difficult to say the least. While considering questions on ethics, revictimization, consent, dignity, and security, the Hub staff at WITNESS aimed to highlight relevant human rights-related video that, at times, contained disturbing or very graphic imagery (see the example of the Neda video from Iran: 'A Woman Dies on Camera - To Post or Not to Post?') . Matisse Bustos Hawkes June 2, 2010
  • Call for applications – GV's Rising Voices Grants David Sasaki, Outreach Director at Global Voices Online, just emailed to alert us to the call for applications for their Rising Voices Grants, which aim to help local citizen media outreach projects around the world. I helped assess the last round of applications, which included some exceptional ideas, and from what I hear, the bar’s […] WITNESS November 6, 2007