YouTube
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Read More: Slogan Six“The real crime of representation is representation itself.” David MacDougall, ethnographic filmmaker [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1SPB3eYLdg&rel=1] Media presentation on YouTube must be attentive to the ethics and power inherent in all acts of…
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Read More: On YouTube Celebrity and SCALEAn article about my class ended up on the AP wire and less then 24 hours later, I’ve done or scheduled 10 print and radio interviews, including a visit from…
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Read More: Slogan Five“The cinema of revolution is at the same time one of destruction and construction: destruction of the image that neo-colonialization has created of itself and us, and construction of a…
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Read More: Learning from YouTube
I am teaching an experimental class on/about YouTube this semester. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CDrYwXVOn4&rel=1] After two class sessions I realize this course is going to be really fun and super hard, challenging me…
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Read More: Slogan Four“Q: How do you explain the camera as a gun? A: Well, ideas are guns. A lot of people are dying from ideas and dying for ideas. A gun is…
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Read More: Slogan three
“I will give you my definition of art: art is ‘making.’” Jean Renoir [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSpKOHUdUx8&rel=1] YouTube creates a platform for non-professional, democratic media production. Open the floodgates, and it’s true, everyone…
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Read More: On Slogans1. “It will be the art of the direct cinema of a slogan. Of communication that is just as unobstructed and immediate as the communication of an idea through a…
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Read More: MPme: Variant of a Manifesta
(After “WE: Variant of a Manifesto,” Dziga Vertov, 1922) I call myself MP:me (Media Praxis : Alexandra Juhasz)—as opposed to “cinematographer,” one of a herd of machomen doing rather well…
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Read More: 10 Terms. 3 calls.Here are the central terms of Media Praxis and 3 related calls to action.
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Read More: The Resolution of MP:me
(After “The Resolution of Three,” by Dziga Vertov with Mikhail Kaufman and Elizaveta Svilova, April 10, 1923) The situation on the digital front, namely YouTube, must be considered inauspicious. As…