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Global Internet Activism Week#3 The End Run Around The Information Gate Keepers

Thursday, September 15, 11

Political Activism, Advocacy, and Art Activism

week 1 Access, Censorship, Social Media, and the Alleged Democratizationof Society

week 2

Citizen Media: from Seattle to South Korea

week 3War and Social Media: Serbia

week 4War and Social Media: Iraq, Gaza

week 5

Spring BreakWar and Social Media: Iran, Afghanistan

week 6 Counter-publics in Iran

week 7

Cell phone-enabled activism: Philippines

week 8Citizen Media in China

week 9

A Better World in Second Life?week 10 Japan, Singapore

week 11Burma

week 12

Cyber Publics in Indiaweek 13 One Laptop Per Child

week 14

Mobilization

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First research post Sept 151000 words on NING


http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/20/watching-the-inauguration-with-all-my-facebook-friends/




Citizen Media: from Seattle to Seoul week 3

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Required Readings:Dorothy Kidd, "IndyMedia.org A New Communication Commons," Martha McCaughey and Michael Ayers, Cyberactivism (London: Routledge, 2003) 47-65.

Gillmore, Dan. We the Media. Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People. 1 July 2004. Chapter 1: From Tom Paine to Blogs and Beyond. 6 Jan. 2009 <http://oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/ch01.pdf>.

Case Studies:OhMyNews, IndyMedia, Riseup’s Crabgrass

Film: Battle in Seattle (2007)


http://oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/ch01.pdf




http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Pennsylvania_Gazette_-‐_1729-‐9-‐25_-‐_Project_Gutenberg_etext_20203.jpg


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Pennsylvania_Gazette_-_1729-9-25_-_Project_Gutenberg_etext_20203.jpg

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Pennsylvania_Gazette_-_1729-9-25_-_Project_Gutenberg_etext_20203.jpg

in-class: 12 minslink on slideshare 55 mins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJQqQUrQScs




Citizen Media: from Seattle to Seoul week 3

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What is citizen journalism?What are its advantages and downfalls?


Erick: (response to Gilmore)Is there a place or need for large media networks such as CNN, NBC, Fox?

(response to Kidd)Keeping in mind the Internet's capability to amplify the voices on all sides of the political spectrum, what then of “the opposition”? Are they also empowered?

Joe:Could popular activism websites (e.g., IndyMedia) become the equivalent of the corporate broadcasters? Should not we consider them as a monopoly also?

Calvin:(response to Gilmore):If forms of grassroots media have really been around for hundreds of years as Gillmore argues, why has it only recently become such a buzzword and movement according to the mainstream media?

Elena:Should independent journalism and non-professional news be labeled with a disclaimer as they are often just as partisan as the sites that they react against?


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Chris:[I’d] say that [Indymedia] would probably get more hits to a video of their content on YouTube than they would on the front page of their site. Why is this?

Peter:Is independent media more objective than corporate media, or does a stated or implied goal of countering corporate media indicate an equal degree of bias? To what extent are technological developments responsible for the success of the IMC? Could such a network exist without the Internet?


The Caring Problem


http://gapdev.law.harvard.edu/


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http://gapdev.law.harvard.edu

Rwanda, 1994© Alfredo Jaar


http://www.alfredojaar.net/rwanda_web/95newsweek/newsweek.html

project full-screen






http://video.pbs.org/video/123978883628 mins into the piece




Who Writes the First Draft of History?


from: Manufacturing Consent, Naom Chomsky Controlling what people think: editing history, selecting narratives


Benkler, chapter 6

All The News That’s Fit To Print


Absolute Dominance Is Over

Gate Keeping


Trent Lott, resigned Nov 2007

“Twenty-two years ago, Trent Lott, then a House member from Mississippi, told a home state political gathering that if the country

had elected segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond to the presidency ‘30 years ago,

we wouldn't be in the mess we are today.’ The phrasing is very similar to incoming Senate Majority Leader Lott's controversial

remarks at a 100th birthday party for Thurmond last week.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37288-2002Dec10?language=printer




The Lead-Up To The War In Iraq (2003) Who did a better job reporting

Colin Powell’s February 2003 speech in front of the United Nation

The New York Times or the plethora of blogs?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/IraqMobileProductionFacilities.jpg




What question would you most like to have answered regarding the topic of the lecture today?

Of all ideas and points you have heard so far today, which is the most obscure or ambiguous to you?

What is the most contentious statement you heard in the lecture so far?


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/12-‐30-‐2006_oventic_media.jpg


http://tinyurl.com/2dnhmyhttp://english.ohmynews.com/

“OhmyNews was influential in determining the outcome of the South Korean presidential elections in December 2002 with the election of Roh Moo Hyun. After being elected, Roh granted his first interview to OhmyNews.”


http://tinyurl.com/2dnhmy

http://tinyurl.com/2dnhmy

http://english.ohmynews.com

http://english.ohmynews.com

http://www.newsvine.com/


http://www.newsvine.com

http://www.newsvine.com

http://dev.riseup.net/crabgrass/




http://www.youku.com/


http://www.youku.com

http://www.youku.com

http://tinyurl.com/2569dr




http://globalvoicesonline.org/


http://globalvoicesonline.org

http://globalvoicesonline.org

http://www.groundreport.com/tv




Harun Farocki: Images of War (at a Distance)MOMAThe Yoshiko and Akio Morita Media Gallery, second floorProjects Gallery, second floor

VISIT to MOMA


http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/about-thoughtleader/

bloggers, academics, writers, journalists, columnists, opinion makers, CEOs, closed circle of users, ad revenue shared, everything is edited (posts and comments), no pay, focus on high quality writing

Content Management System

South Africa




Research blog post

- 2000 words (include word count)

- due Feb 17 before class, posted to NING blog (tagged with name and “essay1”) before class (no late submission)

- focus on one argument

- send me one paragraph about the topic of your blog essay in the body of an email before Friday

- evaluation: logic, clarity, referenced research vs. unsubstantiated claims

- spelling, grammar, structure


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