A great summary of tips & strategies for adding video to tell your community stories from Community Media Workshop.
Power to the "little brother" with a camera.
This is useful for non-profits, citizen activists, and anybody who wants to enhance their online presence and tell their stories with compelling video.
It will become relevant to our final project later in the term.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Ethnic Media Survive in Sinking Market
From National Public Radio
Though these are grim times for major news organizations across the country, a few organizations — often labeled "ethnic media" — are thriving.
Many of these newspapers and broadcast stations are doing well because they've tapped into an expanding audience — the sons and daughters of immigrants.
Listen to the story on NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102802880
Though these are grim times for major news organizations across the country, a few organizations — often labeled "ethnic media" — are thriving.
Many of these newspapers and broadcast stations are doing well because they've tapped into an expanding audience — the sons and daughters of immigrants.
Listen to the story on NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102802880
The Press & Dissent
The press thrives on fostering dissent. It is in their interest, as dissent keeps us tuned in. Dissent (conflict) is at the heart of drama. Keep this in mind next time you watch "the news."
Can there be an alternative? Is news on the web different? How?
A coalition of sentiments is not for the interest of printers. They, like the clergy, live by the zeal they can kindle and the schisms they can create. It is contest of opinion in politics as well as religion which makes us take great interest in them and bestow our money liberally on those who furnish aliment to our appetite... So the printers can never leave us in a state of perfect rest and union of opinion. They would be no longer useful and would have to go to the plough."
--Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, 1801.
Can there be an alternative? Is news on the web different? How?
Friday, September 25, 2009
Facebook & Journalism: What you Should Know
From Mashable.com, Facebook & Journalism: What you Should Know
In addition to the audio of a panel discussion on the topic, this post has links to two other interesting articles: Journalist's Guide to Facebook, Journalist's Guide to Twitter.
In addition to the audio of a panel discussion on the topic, this post has links to two other interesting articles: Journalist's Guide to Facebook, Journalist's Guide to Twitter.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Great Cell Phone Video
Transnational/Transcultural motifs, production on mobile technologies, a global distribution network... all within a very clever and simple video. The local becomes universal in more ways than one.
CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO FROM CNN
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CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO FROM CNN
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Facebook as a Tool for Social Change?
From CNN: a short report on the use of Facebook in the Middle East.
Do you use Facebook for socially engaged dialogue and activities?
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Remember going to the video store for films?
I'm surprised Blockbuster is still around. Brick and mortar video stores are a thing of the past, and they are shutting down thousands in the coming year. But they are doing everything possible to adapt to the delivery of home/filmed entertainment in the age of convergence. See their web site for the multiple delivery systems they offer. But can they compete in the age of bitTorrent, hulu and YouTube?
Yahoo! & Twitter: White House Q&A on Health Care
The White House answers' questions from "netizens" via Yahoo! News and Twitter.
An example of the new kind of participatory culture in the age of convergence.
An example of the new kind of participatory culture in the age of convergence.
"News" in the Age of Twitter: Obama & Kanye West
From the L.A. Times: read what happened when an ABC News correspondent prematurely twittered a report that President Obama called Kanye West an "jack***."
Of course, there is a second layer of reporting here, with the LA Times reporting on the inappropriate report and echoing the news, giving the story a longer life!
Professional standards for journalists are being challenged in the age of 24/7 connectivity and immediacy.
Of course, there is a second layer of reporting here, with the LA Times reporting on the inappropriate report and echoing the news, giving the story a longer life!
Professional standards for journalists are being challenged in the age of 24/7 connectivity and immediacy.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Local News is the Heart of Democracy: So Why is it disappearing?
View This video from PBS' Bill Moyers
and consider what happens when we lose local news converage.
and consider what happens when we lose local news converage.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Why Michelle Obama's Hair Matters
This recent article from Time Magazine explores some of the social and political nuances of Michelle Obama's hair styles, particularly as it relates to the historical currents underlying the meaning of African-American women's hair.
Read this article in relation to to the video "A Girl Like Me," produced by teen filmmaker Kiri Davis.
What role does the media play in establishing the value systems by which we define our identity? How do we learn what is favorable, appropriate, professional, fashionable, etc? Where do we get the images that help us form our sense of style and identity?
Read this article in relation to to the video "A Girl Like Me," produced by teen filmmaker Kiri Davis.
What role does the media play in establishing the value systems by which we define our identity? How do we learn what is favorable, appropriate, professional, fashionable, etc? Where do we get the images that help us form our sense of style and identity?
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