activist media
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Read More: Circling Jenkins 2: Boobs and BytesIn the same Learning from YouTube class where two students presented their fake documentary about convergence culture and The Hills (see video, True Life: I’m addicited to ‘The Hills’ on-line…
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Read More: Battle in Seattle
I went to see this foamy nugget of unstated causes and riot-fueled romance without reading a review. How can I be so “sophisticated” and yet so stupid, always surprised and…
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Read More: Cathy Opie
I had the amazing honor and all around good-time of getting to attend my friend Cathy’s opening at the Guggenheim last Thursday. Yes, that’s right. The Guggenheim. I could gush…
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Read More: You Say You Want a Revolution?
My course with a digital-presence, Media Praxis—one that focuses upon the historical, ethical and theoretical underpinnings of revolutionary media practices while attempting to find their legacy on-line—has left me feeling…
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Read More: Tweaking EnzenbergerIn his “Constituents of a Theory of the Media,” in The Consciousness Industry (1974), Hans Magnus Enzenberger describes a new media (“satellites, color television, cable relay television, casettes, videotape, videotape…
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Read More: Back to School. 2 new sites!
Sad but true. Hard to muster, yes. But I can’t fairly complain; it’s not really decent. Boo hoo. I must return to work after 8 months on sabbatical. I’ll be…
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Read More: Beyond Visibility/Learning from GhanaI am recently returned from the OurMedia7 conference in Ghana, a loose network of international academics, activists, and professionals working in social justice/development/NGOs who have met seven times, annually, to…
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Read More: Next Week: SCALE
I actually started this blog, about exactly a year ago, on the behest of Yvonne Welbon (who’s all about social networking and indie media), the producer of my documentary, “SCALE:…
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Read More: AIDS/Art/Work and Archive
I just returned from New York where I spent 48 hours visiting old haunts, seeing old friends, watching videos of my past ways, talking about the lost and now of…
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Read More: Here’s Him & Him? & Her? (happy to meet you): Talking Blog-Montage“For better or worse, we can expect YouTube and online amateur video to become a common tool for the 25% of American women who have been sexually assaulted.” Dr. Strangelove,…