Video Republic
How young people are changing Europe
Production companies and broadcasters no longer hold a monopoly over moving-images - instead, a new theatre of public information has emerged. Spread across the internet, television, festivals and campaigns this emerging ‘Video Republic’ is a messy, alternative realm of video creation and exchange, dominated by young people. Who inhabits, shapes and regulates the Video Republic?
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- Anthropology of ourselves Having just been reminded of the 'mass observation' project, founded back in 1937, I was struck by how the same impulses drive us to collect and document everyday life now. The difference now is simply in the tools we use. The Mass Observation website describes how the original project worked, and it sounds like a weighty undertaking: 'In Bolton, a team of paid investigators went into a variety of public situations: meetings, religious occasions, sporting and leisure activities, in the... from : celiahannon 31st March 2008
- Big Think - We Are What You Think Like YouTube but designed to be populated by 'ideas'. So it seems there's basically less happy slapping, more Kwame Anthony Appiah. from : petebradwell 2nd April 2008
- Berlin. 24-25/03/08. On 24th and 25th March I spent two days at the marvellous Schlesische 27, a youth arts organisation in Kreuzberg, to the south east of Berlin. It's nestled in a set of buildings off Schlesische street, in an area with growing numbers of artists and an established Turkish population. There were six young filmmakers in the workshop, all aged between 17 and 22. Thanks, first off, to the facilitators and filmmakers for being so welcoming. I was only there two days so unfortunately I haven’t... from : petebradwell 8th April 2008
- Video is not killing the video star We're in the midst of accumulating and reflecting on the material we have drawn from the various video workshops for this project. And naturally we're starting to revisit some of the questions we started with around the production and consumption of video. What is its value? What does it give to the people producing the content, or those watching or sharing it? Something that is hovering in front of us is the issue of intellectual property and copyright. from : petebradwell 27th May 2008
- Lawrence Lessig at Personal Democracy Forum 2007 Laurence Lessig taking his free culture argument to political reporting. from : petebradwell 30th May 2008
- About Us ? EngageMedia EngageMedia is a video sharing site focusing on social justice and environmental issues in South East Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It is a space for critical documentary, fiction, artistic and experimental works that challenge the dominance of the mainstream media. from : charlietims 7th July 2008
- comScore Reports that 26 Million People Watched More Than 3 Billion Videos Online in Germany in May comScore Reports that 26 Million People Watched More Than 3 Billion Videos Online in Germany in May from : petebradwell 6th August 2008
- Eszter Hargittai's: from free-for-all to commercial gatekeeping Eszter Hargittai's: from free-for-all to commercial gatekeeping from : petebradwell 6th August 2008
- Pew Internet: Teens and Social Media "Content creation by teenagers continues to grow, with 64% of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engaging in at least one type of content creation, up from 57% of online teens in 2004." from : petebradwell 6th August 2008
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We're busy writing up the Children of Europa project at the moment. We're really excited about how the pamphlet is shaping up. The launch will be in early September - do get in touch if you'd like to know more.
We've digested a lot of online video over the past 9 months. Yes, there's a lot of nonsense. But there's a lot of cracking content out there. Here's just a couple of videos I've enjoyed: from : petebradwell 11th August 2008