web 2.0
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Read More: Digital Praxis/Filmic TextsMy colleague at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy at USC, Virgina Kuhn, has just published Filmic Texts and the Rise of the Fifth Estate which “maps the use of a…
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Read More: YOUTUBE IS BADLY BAKEDYouTube is baked; its video forms and conventions badly done. We’re stuck with corporate media-like “stunts, pranks, violence, gotchas, virtuosity, upsets, and transformations.” Sure, every video holds its own small…
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Read More: Learning from YouTube: The Video-BookMy video-book goes live today on the MIT Press website. I hope you will take a look, contribute a texteo, and share it with others who might be interested (handy…
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Read More: Distraction Span: call for contributionsMy dear friend and colleague Brian Goldfarb and I are co-editing a section of MediaCommons’ New Everyday on youth, media, and distraction. Our call begins: “We invite short, lively, multi-modal…
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Read More: You Say Vook, I Say Video-BookVirgina Heffernan’s recent article on the joys of the “vook—a software application that combines video and text”—brings to mind what MIT and I are calling my video-book (to be released…
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Read More: THE NOWHERES & EVERYWHERE OF ONLINE FEMINISM
I am on sabbatical during the Spring of 2011. During this period of relative freedom, I plan to promote, network, and engage with my YouTube video-book (to be released February…
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Read More: Another Launch: The Owls[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cfeTZNcA3g&fs=1&hl=en_US] My recent film The Owls (directed by Cheryl Dunye, for whom I also produced The Watermelon Woman) is being released in March by First Run Features. It’s already on…
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Read More: Ready for Launch: February 7, 2011[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FROxZ5i67k&fs=1&hl=en_US] I’m in the final stages of editing and readying my video-book, Learning from YouTube, for “publication” or perhaps, better said, official presentation by the MIT Press. Given the unique…
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Read More: Social Network Sandwich: Guess Who’s the Nasty Creme Filling?Bill Moggridge‘s Designing Media just arrived at my doorstep, hot off the (MIT) Press. The book is really beautiful and a great read, marking the zeitgeist of cultural producers’ takes…
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Read More: Wiki-WalksI am learning much teaching Learning from YouTube again this semester. Last week I was educated by my students about this: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEbQ8Zk2Yb8&fs=1&hl=en_US] It couldn’t have come at a better time…