Posts Tagged: political tool

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 [...]

Andrew Lowenthal on the Need for Indymedia Movements

By Ryanne, March 13, 2011

By Ryanne Turenhout On the second day of Video Vortex at the Trouw in Amsterdam Andrew Lowenthal addresses the issues of how to use and distribute video politically and how do you do that independently and autonomously. Andrew Lowenthal began by giving an overview of what EngageMedia has been doing over the past six years. [...]

Holmes Wilson on Universal Subtitles: Collaborative, Volunteer Subtitling for any Video on the Web Using Free Software

By Rania (Ourania) Dalalaki, March 13, 2011

By Ourania (Rania) Dalalaki The importance of subtitles is an undeniable fact for Holmes Wilson, co-founder of the Participatory Culture Foundation. Through the foundation’s  latest open source, software-based project Universal Subtitles, the creative staff of the foundation argues that subtitles urgently need to support the vast universe of online videos. What is Universal Subtitles? Universal [...]

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 [...]