Online Video as a Political Tool: Sam Gregory on Video Activism and Advocacy

By Janice Wong, March 15, 2011

Sam Gregory, program director at WITNESS presented his thoughts on using online video as a political tool at Video Vortex #6 in Amsterdam yesterday.

Joanne Richardson on the Critical Distance in Political Filmmaking

By Sjoerd Tuinema, March 13, 2011

By Sjoerd Tuinema Video artist Joanne Richardson (GER) was invited to give a presentation in the session called “Online Video as a Political Tool”, beginning her talk with a critical look at the terms ‘online’, ‘political’ and ‘tool’. As Marx had wrote in the Economic Transcript, a social revolution will “not get to the next [...]

Joining the Online Video Conversation? The Presence of Institutional Actors on YouTube

By Geert Faber, March 13, 2011

By Geert Faber The second day of the Video Vortex conference at Trouw in Amsterdam. In the seventh session Patrícia Dias da Silva, a PhD Fellow in Social Sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, talks about how YouTube has been embraced by European institutional actors, and how YouTube is reaching out [...]

Posts Tagged: Online Video as a Political Tool

Online Video as a Political Tool: Sam Gregory on Video Activism and Advocacy

Joanne Richardson on the Critical Distance in Political Filmmaking

Joining the Online Video Conversation? The Presence of Institutional Actors on YouTube