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In looking at the work plan for this weeks assignment, I was drawn to the sentence “These approaches (stories) reveal deep relationship-building over time — skills that documentary filmmakers and community-based artists have been developing for decades, and are now taking online to mix old and new methodologies.” I realized I wasn’t familiar with the […]  This week we had to look into the context, specifically the context in which a story is being told to us by our subject or interviewee. The context can be the difference between a strong and powerful interview and one that is attempting to be that but loses all of its power in the transition. […] Technocratic Hubris In the first three chapters, Gere describes the evolution of digital culture from a 19th century automated loom to the age of IBM, when the Cold War spurned the newly-christened Department of Defense to pour billions into the development of vast computer arrays designed to model and supplement human decisions. Gere […] In her TedX talk, “Witness Your Environment,” Kelly Matheson describes George Holliday’s videotaping of the Rodney King incident as the event that “put the Handycam on the map as a powerful human rights tool.” The video can also be considered seminal in another, connected sense: it prefigures the growing democratization of journalism Henry Jenkins describes […] First of all, let me just wipe the tears out of my eyes after watching some of these videos. In particular, one from the WITNESS human rights channel regarding Cambodia and the story of land grabbing. When the cops are carrying a little old lady out by her arms and legs, it was like Niagra […] Wow. When I started viewing the assigned videos for this week, I was planning to do what the assignment said: at least two videos for about 30 minutes. Three hours and 10 videos later, I was still clicking through the WITNESS site and hadn’t written a word. Is that a positive or a negative, I […] Charlie Gere introduces Digital Culture by declaring his aim to disenchant the reader from the charm of digital culture. He is alluding to Max Weber’s interest in forces of rationalism and secularism to liberate mankind from superstition, but Gere inverts Weber’s formula, applying the term ‘enchantment’ instead to the mistaken belief that the hyper-rationalism […] Unanticipated advances in technology over the past decade have been huge advantages to non-profit organizations like Witness and Engage Media. In 20 years, Witness has gone from the archaic Sony HandyCam to top-of-the line video and audio equipment and the unlimited potential of the Internet. For a laugh, check out this ad for the Sony […] Media for social change was what we had to look into this week. Social change is a difficult thing to achieve, because it takes the changing of a mass group of people to really make something significant happen. But that does not stop several highly devoted individuals from making the attempt at changing the world. […] This post focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of Engage Media and Witness’s websites/content, and how they both support democracy. The Engage Media website’s strength is that it has a ton of content. However, I think the weakness is a lot of it appears disorganized and thus is hard to really delve in to. And […] |
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