looks like a cool set of remixable lectures.
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From: Aden Evens <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:17 AM
Subject: Fwd: [ELO-MEMBERS] Time Sensitive -- Potential Ford Foundation
Project
To: Parker Phinney <[email protected]>
Thought this might interest you?
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*From: *helen DeVinney <[email protected]>
*Date: *March 28, 2011 1:15:50 AM EDT
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*Subject: **[ELO-MEMBERS] Time Sensitive -- Potential Ford Foundation
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*Reply-To: *helen DeVinney <[email protected]>
-- An announcement from ELO Secretary and Director of Communications Mark
Marino --
Hi, ELO,
Michael Wesh (of the Machine is Us/ing Us fame) is trying to gauge interest
in this potential project from the Ford Foundation.
Please let him know if you have some students who could participate. It's a
bit of a remix project.
Best,
Mark Marino
Dir. of Communications
ELO
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Jenny Toomey at the Ford Foundation is going to allow all the videos from
the recent Wired for Change to be downloaded and freely remixed
(
http://www.fordfoundation.org/issues/freedom-of-expression/advancing-media-rights-and-access/news?id=45<http://www.fordfoundation.org/issues/freedom-of-expression/advancing-media-rights-and-access/news?id=451>).
A full searchable transcript will help remixers find the key points they
need for their videos. We are exploring the possibility of creating a video
contest to promote the videos and give students a chance to engage with the
core ideas of how to build a more just, useful, and equitable Internet. As
part of this we might provide a pool of "b-roll" clips free for remix, or at
least point to some good sources like archive.org, cc.aljazeera.net, etc.
The student winner would get a free trip to the next Wired for Change
conference (which features some pretty amazing speakers, celebrities, etc.)
But we have to move fast as many of the core ideas will quickly be dated
(Internet time moves fast!). I'm trying to get a quick read on how
many submissions we might get if we did this. Jenny wants to know if
we could get some critical mass of submissions, possibly by
asking professors to assign the task of submitting remixes as part of
the final stretch of this spring semester. Are any of you teaching courses
for which this would fit in? Or do you know others that might? Or are you
on listservs you could quickly poll?
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Michael Wesch, PhD
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology
2010 NITLE Fellow
2009 National Geographic Emerging Explorer
2008 US Professor of the Year
2007 Wired Magazine Rave Award Winner
Director of the Digital Ethnography Working Group
Kansas State University
[email protected]
http://mediatedcultures.net
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http://www.madebyparker.com
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