Bravo! I'm very glad to see you're doing this. Much of my vlogging work over the last year has been documenting technology use by disenfranchised groups around the world. I'm also working with Martin Luther King Elementary in Atlantic City to teach vlogging to minority students. (www.acroughtcuts.com)
I haven't seen any good demographic research on vloggers as of yet, but the data on bloggers in general is clear. According to Pewinternet.org, the average blogger is white, middle class, educated and with at least six years of Internet experience. Hardly a picture of diversity. As far as I'm concerned, blogging, vlogging and podcasting won't make a major dent in improving society until it becomes more equitable, and more disenfranchised groups have access to these tools to capture the stories that _they_ want to tell. Everyone should have a voice, and that takes a lot of hard work from those of us fortunate to have access and the skills to help them along the way. You may want to check out the USA chapter of my new book, From the Ground Up: http://www.andycarvin.com/from-the-ground-up.pdf It talks about the role of community media in giving voices to disenfranchised groups, using Lowell Telecommunications Corp as a case study. Meanwhile, check out some of my videos from India, Ghana and Bangladesh; they examine local digital divide and community technology initiatives: http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/video Thanks, andy carvin digital divide network www.digitaldivide.net --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Ivettza Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So once again it's time for vlog tv (where we showcase different vlogs > and show them on MNN) > this month we're doing something a little different. > it will be a live call-in show and we're going to be talking about > vlogging and the digital divide. > When we first started video blogging we spoke about the power of > putting the media making tools in the hands of the people. > We finally would be able to MAKE and take an active role instead of > just sitting idly by. > But, who are the people telling these stories? > Where are they from? > Are they mainly "middle class white and from suburbia?" > what about the disenfranchised? > What about internationally? > and by closing the digital divide, are we encouraging a cultural > exchange that spreads multiculturalism or are we ending cultural > diversity? > > > If you live in NYC and you would like to take part in the conversation > then i urge you to tune into channel 34 at 8pm. Or if you don't live > in manhattan you can go to our website mnn.org - click on "watch the > channels" and it's ch 34. > > also - you can email me a question or comment to talk about on the > air. you can also submit a vlog for us to view. (we'll be showing > different types of vlogs, but we'll give special consideration to > vlogs that deal w/ the topic at hand - or if you're not from "middle > class white america" i don't mean to be exclusive, i just want to > showcase vlogs outside of the ones we see everday. > > oh yeah - you can submit your questions and/or vlogs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > THANKS!!! > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
