Week 2 Private: Joel Arellano

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 […]

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Week 2: Jarratt Private Post

At the outset of Charlie Gere’s Digital Culture he let’s us in on a secret, or at least it felt like a secret, which is that we don’t really know what digital means. It is pervasive throughout our lives, yet we don’t really understand it. We think it is synonymous with a technology that connotes […]

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Week 2- Omar Aldakheel- Response to Witness and EngageMedia

I can notice that both WITNESS and EngageMedia focus on human rights issues around the globe. They also rely on the communities to report their own issues and rights that are being violated.

I like how WINTESS acknowledges the human dignity and safety aspect of people while trying to resolve problems especially in fundamental governments […]

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Week 2 – Derek Yoshikane – Response to Witness and Engage

In the Witness Your Environment-TED lecture, a few things that Kelly Matheson spoke about stood out to me. The purpose of WITNESS is to, “Elevate the stories, so their stories are heard”. I like the fact that WITNESS provides an honest place where stories could be told, especially with the media bias on all of […]

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Week 2: Emily Priebe Response to Viewings

After watching videos on both the WITNESS and EngageMedia sites, I was struck by the theme of preservation. The WITNESS website lists preservation as one of their main aims stating that while they are “working to secure the future of human rights video, we are also helping to preserve its past.” Although much of video […]

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Week 2: Eckerson Reading Response –Witness vs. Precious Places

Witness is an international human rights organization that uses the power of video and storytelling to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses. Their tagline is “see it, film it, change it,” and they define video advocacy as “setting specific objectives, identifying target audiences, and developing a strategic plan […]

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Week 2: Katelyn Black Response to Viewings

I believe that I am not alone when I say that I was absolutely moved by the work that these two social justice groups are providing for the underrepresented throughout the world. WITNESS and ENGAGE MEDIA are two programs that I come across that make me proud to call myself a fellow journalist (and […]

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Week 2_Allyson Woodard response to viewings and reading

So, there were quite a few points that stood out for me in Zimmerman’s essay. I was an English major in college, so I feel like I spent half my time there arguing back and forth over whether a piece of writing or a film should be judged purely on its own merits, or whether […]

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Week 2: Steven Wheeler – Response to Viewings

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 […]

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Week 2_Summer Hatfield response to viewings and reading

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 […]

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