- A Few Reasons Activsts Shouldn’t be Banned from the Internet Last month on Human Rights Day (December 10th) I wrote an opinion piece for the HuffingtonPost about the increasingly important role technology companies and platforms are playing in the human rights landscape.
- Promoting Cameras Everywhere Recommendations at RightsCon and Stanford University This week, WITNESS is busy in the Bay Area of California where we'll be at multiple public meetings discussing ideas in our Cameras Everywhere leadership initiative. We're speaking on a panel at the first Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference, attending the first advisory board meeting of the exciting new EngineRoom initiative, and we're presenting at Stanford University's Liberation Technology Seminar on the "Cameras Everywhere" report and the tools we're developing in WITNESS Labs.
- A Canadian Model for Human Rights Awareness The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) and the global online youth-led social network TakingITGlobal (TIG) have joined forces to create EVOKE—a national online art contest that calls on Canadian youth to share their perspectives on human rights issues through visual art.
- 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.
- Conference: Media in Transition 6 at MIT Media in Transition: April 24 - 26, at MIT. Excerpt from the conference description: " What challenges confront librarians and archivists who must supervise the migration of print culture to digital formats and who must also find ways to preserve and catalogue the vast and increasing range of words and images generated by new technologies? How are shifts in distribution and circulation affecting the stories we tell, the art we produce, the social structures and policies we construct?"
- Social Media – the Tipping Point for Mobile Video? Here are the figures from TVWeek: The potential for social networking on phones is huge. MySpace, the biggest social networking site on the Web, now commands nearly 5 percent of all Internet visits. Audience measurement firm Hitwise reports that one of every 17 Internet visits is to a social networking site, with MySpace commanding 81 […]
- Two Articles about Social Networking Sites for Change In all the hubbub about video on the hub, we seem to be forgetting that a big, if not bigger, consideration should be the hub’s social networking capabilities. If people can’t connect, interact, and organize as a community, how will the hub be anything more than a bunch of videos tagged as being “human rights […]
