Journalism from below in the Digital Age with P. Sainath Date and Time
May 5, 2015 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Location 7:00 PM | Tuesday, May 5, 2015 Donald Kennedy Commons Escondido Village Comstock Circle, Stanford Universitysai The People's Archive of Rural India combines text, audio, video, and photographs to present what is both a living journal and a growing online archive. It's a unique and ambitious movement to document the diversity of rural India, home to 833 million people speaking 780 languages. PARI,http://www.ruralindiaonline.org/, is aimed at recording the everyday lives of everyday people, to document the stories from what Sainath has called the “continent within a sub-continent”. The site was launched in December 2014. The website is not-for-profit, free to view and all the contributors – journalists, writers, film-makers, editors, translators, engineers, lawyers and accountants – are volunteers. The website hopes to grow by public participation. About the speaker: Over a career spanning 34 years, Sainath has won over 40 awards for his reporting, including the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award and the first Amnesty International’s Global Human Rights Journalism Prize in 2000. His book, Everybody Loves a Good Drought, has remained a non-fiction bestseller for decades and was declared a Penguin Classic in 2012. He is currently teaching two semester-long courses in the Program for South Asian Studies at Princeton University. More on the archive: The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/india-villages-... Al Jazeera America: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/12/20/people-s-archiveofrural... Yale Herald: http://yaleherald.com/voices/sitting-down-with-p-sainath/ The event is organized by Asha at Stanford and a similar event will be organized at UC Berkeley by the School of Information. 7:00 PM | Tuesday, May 5, 2015 Donald Kennedy Commons Escondido Village Comstock Circle, Stanford University 6:30 PM | Wednesday, May 6, 2015 210 South Hall School of Information UC Berkeley Free and open to the public. http://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/libtech/events/journalism-below-digital-age-p-sainath -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
