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WITNESS was a bit of a revelation for me, because its mission is strikingly similar to an initiative I have been trying to advance in my role as communications specialist for a public-sector union. Like WITNESS, this initiative is about transforming personal stories into “tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change.” My organization […]  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 […] One of the videos I watched on the EngageMedia site was a behind-the-scenes look at the 2013 Santri Film Festival. The gist of the video was that teens in Indonesian boarding schools made documentary films to not only bring people together, but to shore up some fallacies about their topic. One topic was about a […] 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. […] One of the more powerful aspects of sites like EngageMedia and Witness is the way in which they make filmmaking/mediamaking accessible. Access to training and the tools to produce media are the major barriers when it comes to video production. I think about my own experience of coming to filmmaking. I went to a one […] I would suggest that we are now beginning to venture beyond our comfort zones, and begin to see new emerging participatory media models from completely different perspectives that are outside our own western frames of reference. The questions and critiques coming up around both these organizational sites (…as aggregators, archives, people’s histories, video evidence) are […] As Kelley Matheson pointed out in her TEDx talk “Witness Your Environment”, the thought behind Witness’s goals is that “If we could hear people’s stories it would create empathy and create meaningful change”. My curiosity is how different strategic approaches to the videos accomplish this. Since we don’t have access to those strategies (audience, goals, […] 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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