- Reimagining the Archive: Rethinking Archival Practice and Theory The tone was set on Friday evening with Rick Prelinger’s animated keynote presentation, in which he spoke about the dynamic nature of moving image archives as sites of creation, participation, artistic practice, and activism rather than as places where content goes to die.
- BAVC Producers Institute for New Media Technologies Well, I'm in the midst of having a great ten days! I'm in San Francisco participating at the Bay Area Video Coalition's (BAVC) fourth annual Producers Institute for New Media Technologies. It is an intensive ten-day residency for eight creative teams (see this year's projects below!) with a shared goal of developing and prototyping a multi-platform project inspired by, or based on a significant documentary project.
- Video: Socialnomics and the Social Media Revolution Erik Qualman, blogger, speaker and author of bestselling book "Socialnomics: How social media transforms the way we live and do business," produced a new, snappy video with some eye-opening stats on the rise of social media.
- tyrannybook: The Facebook of Human Rights Violators and Those Who Watch Them Earlier this month, Amnesty International Portugal launched tyrannybook, a new social media site designed to spotlight some of the world's worst human rights violators.
- Human Rights Electronic Evidence Study The Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Initiative is currently studying how NGOs and archiving institutions collect, manage and preserve digital human rights documentation, including blogs, social media, and video and other media from mobile devices; the project is described in significant depth on The Documentalist, the project's blog.
- New Media History and Research on Rights, War, and Memory From researcher and guest blogger Karl Arthur Baumann, currently doing research and interviews here at WITNESS, about his project: The recent events in Iran have proven once again the potency and conscience raising capabilities of current communications technologies, vis a vis Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter. But to what extent have they created active responses? The […]
- Citizen Archivists: MiT6 Notes, part 2 Another thematic thread from MIT6, MIT's Media in Transition conference, highlighted by Rick Prelinger (Prelinger Library, Prelinger Archives) at the 2nd plenary, Archives and History.
- Immediacy & Persistence: MIT6 Notes part 1 I spent last Friday Saturday and a bit of Sunday at MIT 6, the 6th biennial Media in Transition gathering convened by MIT’s Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program.
- Making Our Media Matter A few weeks ago I attended the Making Your Media Matter conference put on by the stupendous folks at the Center for Social Media at American University. A report is now available produced by the conference rapporteur here which is a useful round up of major themes and ideas discussed, broken down into the various […]
- Citizen Media Toolbox Ran across this from unmediated. JD Lasica from ourmedia.org is trying to put together a set of easy to use tools to get people up and running with citizen journalism. His wish includes: * Out-of-the-box community publishing solution based on an extension of either the base code for Drupal or ArmchairGM (which supports the Openserving.com […]
- Best practices when aggregating videos Re-Remediated (again) from unmediated, who got it from JD at Social Media. Our friend from blip.tv, Mike Hudack, wrote an article with some handy guidelines at Video Vertigo: • Aggregators should always identify the individual show, videoblog or video podcast in their index, and include a link to the appropriate site for that show. When […]
