http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=123 @ Kansas State University Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:52:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=123&cpage=1#comment-8722 Filtertraum » Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:47:22 +0000 http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=123#comment-8722 [...] Ein Video von Prof. Michael Wesch und der Arbeitsgruppe Digital enthnography Kansas State University. Weiteres zum Video hier. [...] [...] Ein Video von Prof. Michael Wesch und der Arbeitsgruppe Digital enthnography Kansas State University. Weiteres zum Video hier. [...]

]]> http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=123&cpage=1#comment-6013 Jessie Daniels Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:43:41 +0000 http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=123#comment-6013 Nice panel ~ I'm glad I was able to attend. Your presentation was easily the best and most thoughtful of those assembled. I wanted to hear more about "what all this means," but I suppose that's a discussion for another panel. I also sensed a desire in the audience to talk about some of the less-than-positive aspects of digital video, which I blogged a little about over at RacismReview.com. Anyway, delighted to see you in the "other Manhattan." And, do keep the rest of us academics updated on the screenshots for the tenure file. That's a discussion that I know many of us will be following with great interest. Keep up the good work! ;-) Nice panel ~ I’m glad I was able to attend. Your presentation was easily the best and most thoughtful of those assembled. I wanted to hear more about “what all this means,” but I suppose that’s a discussion for another panel. I also sensed a desire in the audience to talk about some of the less-than-positive aspects of digital video, which I blogged a little about over at RacismReview.com. Anyway, delighted to see you in the “other Manhattan.” And, do keep the rest of us academics updated on the screenshots for the tenure file. That’s a discussion that I know many of us will be following with great interest. Keep up the good work!

]]> http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=123&cpage=1#comment-6012 racismreview.com » Blog Archive » Digital Video and Racism Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:36:04 +0000 http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=123#comment-6012 [...] On Sunday, I caught one of the featured panels at the Margaret Mead Film Festival, which I wrote a little about here. The panel featured several people involved creating “user-generated content” including the engaging cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch (from Kansas State University), who created the mesmerizing and wildly popular Web 2.0 video; Sara Pollack, YouTube’s film manager; Sameer Padania from Witness, introducing the new participatory online video site for human rights organizations The Hub; and Michael Smolens, founder and CEO of dotSUB, a sort of wikipedia-like translation site for films; and, Jenny Douglas, introducing her new site called KarmaTube. While the panelists tended to focus on the democratizing and emancipatory potential of digital video and video sharing sites, in the Q&A afterward there seemed to be some desire to talk about the negative potential of the medium. For example, Sameer Padania screened a horrific video of police brutality from Egypt that is intended to highlight human rights abuses and prompt action by people opposed to such abuses. I wondered about the people who click on such horrific videos to enjoy them or laugh at them; and, I wondered about the ways that seemingly straightforward “video evidence” like the Rodney King video, get discredited by oppressive political regimes, like the Egyptian police or LAPD. This view was certainly not well-represented on the panel, but to be fair, that wasn’t the intention. [...] [...] On Sunday, I caught one of the featured panels at the Margaret Mead Film Festival, which I wrote a little about here. The panel featured several people involved creating “user-generated content” including the engaging cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch (from Kansas State University), who created the mesmerizing and wildly popular Web 2.0 video; Sara Pollack, YouTube’s film manager; Sameer Padania from Witness, introducing the new participatory online video site for human rights organizations The Hub; and Michael Smolens, founder and CEO of dotSUB, a sort of wikipedia-like translation site for films; and, Jenny Douglas, introducing her new site called KarmaTube. While the panelists tended to focus on the democratizing and emancipatory potential of digital video and video sharing sites, in the Q&A afterward there seemed to be some desire to talk about the negative potential of the medium. For example, Sameer Padania screened a horrific video of police brutality from Egypt that is intended to highlight human rights abuses and prompt action by people opposed to such abuses. I wondered about the people who click on such horrific videos to enjoy them or laugh at them; and, I wondered about the ways that seemingly straightforward “video evidence” like the Rodney King video, get discredited by oppressive political regimes, like the Egyptian police or LAPD. This view was certainly not well-represented on the panel, but to be fair, that wasn’t the intention. [...]

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