Registration (Early Bird Rate) and Abstract Submission Now Open.
GH/Innovate 2010
Global Health & Innovation Conference
Presented by Unite For Sight
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Saturday, April 17 - Sunday, April 18, 2010
Registration Now Open (Early Bird Registration Rate): http://www.ghinnovate.org/
Call For Abstracts: Submit an abstract online at http://www.ghinnovate.org/
The first deadline for abstract submission is August 15. The final abstract deadline is September 20.
“A Meeting of Minds”—CNN
200 speakers, including keynote addresses by Seth Godin, Jeffrey Sachs and Sonia Sachs. Social innovation sessions by CEOs and Directors of Acumen Fund, Partners in Health, WaterPartners, Save The Children, HealthStore Foundation, and many others.
The Global Health & Innovation Conference convenes more than 2,200 participants from 55 countries. The conference challenges students, public health professionals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others, to develop innovative, effective solutions to achieve global goals.
Keynote Speakers
"Using The Power of Stories and Tribes to Spread Your Messages and Change The World," Seth Godin, MBA, Agent of Change; New York Times Bestselling Author of Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us; Founder, Squidoo.com
Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Village Project
Social Entrepreneurship Speakers
Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Director, mothers2mothers
Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation
Kevin Jones, Co-Founder, Good Capital
"Creating Viable Enterprises For The Base of the Pyramid," Ted London, PhD, Senior Research Fellow; Director, Base of the Pyramid Initiative, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan
"From Ideas To Action Workshop: Creating Viable Enterprises For The Base of the Pyramid," Ted London, PhD, Senior Research Fellow; Director, Base of the Pyramid Initiative, William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan
"Doing More With Less," Nancy Lublin, CEO, Do Something
Nicholas Lumpp, Cofounder, Somaly Mam Foundation
Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Partners in Health; Director, Institute for Health and Social Justice; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ajay Nair, MBBS, MPH, Portfolio Associate, Acumen Fund
"Achieving Global Health Through Community Wealth," Billy Shore, Founder and CEO, Share Our Strength
"Investing in Local Social Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries," Jennifer Staple-Clark, Founder, President and CEO, Unite For Sight
Kevin Starr, MD, Rainer Arnhold Fellows Program, Mulago Foundation
"WaterCredit: Driving Financial Innovation in Water Supply & Sanitation For The Poor," Gary White, Executive Director, WaterPartners
Andrew Wolk, CEO, Root Cause
Plus 200 Featured Speakers, including:
Ron Adelman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Yale University Eye Center
"HIV Medication to Empower Communities: An International Model," Jesus Aguais, Executive Director, Aid for AIDS
"Reconciling the WHO's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health with the Multi-dimensional Resilience Index," Astier Almedom, DPhil, Professor of Practice in Humanitarian Policy and Global Public Health
Agbessi Amouzou, PhD, Assistant Scientist, Institute for International Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Tom Arnold, CEO, Concern Worldwide
Jane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founder and Executive Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Bob Bollinger, MD, MPH, Professor of Infectious Diseases and International Health; Director, Center for Clinical Global Health Education, Johns Hopkins University
Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Visiting Scholar, Oxford University; Vice Chancellor Emeritus, St. George's University; Formerly Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Health Issues; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)
Kathleen Casey, MD, FACS, Director, Operation Giving Back, American College of Surgeons
James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
Luz Claudio, MD, Associate Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine, Chief of the Division of International Health, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Paul Cleary, PhD, Dean of Public Health, Chair, Epidemiology and Public Health; Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Yale University School of Public Health
Gustavo V. de Moraes, MD, Research Assistant Professor, NYU School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
Prabhjot Dhadialla, PhD, Program Director of Health Systems, Development and Research, Columbia Center For Global Health and Economic Development, Community Health Worker Advisor, Millennium Village Project
Zoravar Dhaliwal, CEO, Community Lab
Amir Dossal, Executive Director, UN Office for Partnerships
Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
"America's Vital Interests in Global Health," Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD, President, Institute of Medicine of The National Academies
Susan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services
Kevin Frick, PhD, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Pape Gaye, President and CEO, IntraHealth International
Ilene Gipson, PhD, Senior Scientist, Schepens Eye Research Institute; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
"Simple Solutions To Complex Problems: How A Text Message Can Save A Life," Ashifi Gogo, Co-founder, Sproxil; Holekamp Family PhD Innovation Fellow, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
"Workshop: How To Advance Global Health Through Technology and Social Entrepreneurship," Ashifi Gogo, Co-founder, Sproxil; Holekamp Family PhD Innovation Fellow, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
Kate Grant, Executive Director, The Fistula Foundation
Laura Herman, Managing Director, Social Impact Advisors
Christopher P. Howson, PhD, Vice President for Global Programs, The March of Dimes Foundation
Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, PhD, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidmiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health
Norman Kleiman, PhD, Director, Eye Radiation and Environmental Research Laboratory, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
"Siyajabula! The Challenges of Developing Empathic Care Intervention Methodology for Children and Guardians Affected by HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa," Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders
Robert Lawrence, MD, The Center for a Livable Future Professor, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy, and International Health; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Pamela Lynam, MD, Country Director Kenya, JHPIEGO - Johns Hopkins University
John McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
Carole Mitnick, Sc.D., Instructor, Department of Global Health and Social medicine, Harvard Medical School
"Society, Migration, Culture and Women," Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, MPhil, CHES, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Global Health Program Director, New York Medical College School of Public Health
Ron Nabors, Chief Executive Officer, Christian Blind Mission-USA
Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Pediatric Faculty, Family Practice Group; Director of Nurseries, Middlesex Hospital; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Health
Rebecca Onie, JD, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Project HEALTH
"Role of Inflammation in Retinal Degeneration," Santa Ono, PhD, Sr. Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Academic Affairs, Emory University
David Oot, Associate Vice President for Health, Save The Children
Sung Chul Park, MD, Glaucoma Fellow, New York Medical College, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
Matthew Paul, MD, Danbury Eye Physicians and Surgeons
"Global Health Partnerships--Critical Success Factors and Lessons Learned From A Private Sector Perspective," Steven Phillips, MD, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, ExxonMobil Corporation
Maryse B. Pierre-Louis, MD, MPH, MH/HSA, Lead HNP Specialist, Human Development; Coordinator, Booster Program For Malaria Control in Africa, World Bank Africa Region
"Vision 2020/USA and The Future of Collaborative Efforts in Blindness Prevention,"
Louis Pizzarello, MD, MPH, Secretary General, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, PhD, Stanley C. Moore Professor and Chair of Bioengineering, Rice University
"Partnership Models in International Health, The Yale Experience," Majid Sadigh, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Sarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee-Memphis
Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Economic Growth, US Agency for International Development
"Integration of Surgery Into Population-Based Healthcare in Learning Models of Integrated Care," David Spiegel, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Laura Stachel, MD, Bixby Center for Reproductive Health, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
John E. Tedstrom, PhD, President and CEO, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GBC)
James C. Tsai, MD, Robert R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, Ghana
"Can We Eliminate Blinding Trachoma by 2020?" Sheila West, PhD, El-Maghraby Professor of Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
"Innovation in Global Health Research," David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, Director, Centre for International Health; Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada
Derek Yach, Vice President of Global Health Policy, PepsiCo
Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, U.S. Malaria Coordinator, President's Malaria Initiative
Monday, July 27, 2009
Call for Papers: Explosive Past, Radiant Future
The Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto
presents
Explosive Past, Radiant Future
an international colloquium, March 19-20, 2010
Keynote Lectures to be delivered by:
Svetlana Boym (Harvard University, USA)
Thomas Moylan (University of Limerick, Ireland)
The lingering spectre of the past and the beckoning formlessness of the future are the two highly charged images that act as the starting points for the 21st annual international colloquium at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto. Negotiating the troubled terrain between them has been the work of cultural texts and an ongoing problem for cultural and literary criticism. The struggle to establish a meaningful present, which incorporates the triumphs and horrors of historical memory and enables comprehensible directions toward the future, is a shared task of art, philosophy, religion and political thought, among other activities. We suggest that narration – in its various poetic modes – is nothing more than this struggle for meaning, occurring over a multiplicity of social and cultural spaces. Likewise, we suggest that art, philosophy, political thought and religion, to the extent that they are concerned with the problems of meaning and temporality, may also be understood as narrative endeavours. We seek papers from diverse disciplines that bring the problems of narration, thus defined, to the fore and offer innovative solutions to them.
The arts have offered us rich and enduring images embodying the complex antinomies of this struggle, from the time bomb ticking in a sardine can in Petersburg to the ghost of Sethe’s murdered baby in Beloved to Paul Klee’s painting Angelus Novus. This painting is so eloquently described by Walter Benjamin as having its face turned to the past, wishing “to piece together what has been smashed,” but blown by a wind from Paradise “irresistibly into the future.” We take seriously Benjamin’s subsequent suggestion that the dialectical object – the historical ruin, the aesthetic text, the political moment – contains the latent potential to “explode the continuum of history.” We seek papers that interrogate the status of such objects and their relations to the problems of temporality in general, to current cultural and political situations, and to the ways we understand cultural and political situations of the past.
We also invite papers that consider the phenomenological and/or existential nature of time, its relation to the experiences of consciousness and the limitations (or impossibilities) of translating it into public language. Such papers may follow Heidegger in the contention that the subjective experience of time – “the horizon of being” – shapes the contours of social and cultural “historical” realities; on the other hand, they may follow Freud in the counter-contention that the temporal imperatives of organized domination are introverted against the living memory of primordial, liberated time (situated in the unconscious). It was perhaps Augustine who most clearly illuminated the phenomenological problem: “What is time? If no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to someone who asks, I do not know.” We seek re-evaluations of the relationship of subjectivity to culture, mediated by the experience of time.
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
• the study of texts from various historical periods; the political and intellectual goals of revisiting older texts; the selection of historical texts and critical modes of approaching them from the present;
• canonization/re-canonization/de-canonization and their relationship to temporality in general and their own historical moment (the problem of cultural history);
• the emergence of “historical thought” within history itself, and related artistic, political and philosophical movements (i.e. “the rise of the novel”; “enlightenment” thought; new teleologies; the explosion of imperialism); alternative modes of temporality and historical thought within modernity;
• revisionist approaches to history and historical thought based on subjective experience (i.e. women’s history, queer history, indigenous people’s history); the political projects and philosophical stakes of such revisions, and new directions for revisionism (i.e. moving beyond “herstory”; moving beyond the “outing” of history; moving beyond the postcolonial and “new” historicism);
• the role of capitalism and its social/cultural logic in the narration of history and the possibilities of the present; the limits within capitalism of imagining alternative futures, and literary, philosophical, or political challenges to those limits;
• the challenges of globalization and the crossing of political, social, cultural, and philosophical boundaries; the clashes and hybrids of opposing temporalities;
• the role of technology and science in articulations of modernity, and the relationship of these spheres to literary forms, political agendas, and philosophical discourses;
• science fictions, possible worlds, and literary utopias/dystopias; utopian planning in art and politics; utopian philosophy; lived utopias/dystopias;
• the status and temporality of memory, trauma and nostalgia, rooted in the present and directed toward both past and future.
Presentations should be limited to 20 minutes and should touch on the major theoretical, literary, or philosophical concerns of the colloquium. We invite scholars from all disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. We welcome graduate students, university faculty members and independent scholars alike as presenters (typically, we strive for a balance of graduate students and faculty/independent scholars).
Please submit an abstract of your proposed paper (no more than 350 words) to colloquium2010@gmail.com by September 30, 2009. We also welcome the proposal of panels consisting of 3 papers that address a common set of concerns. If proposing a panel, please submit a 250-word abstract describing the theme of the panel in addition to the standard abstract for each of the papers on the panel. All abstracts will undergo a blind-review selection process. Selected participants will be notified by email by October 15, 2009.
presents
Explosive Past, Radiant Future
an international colloquium, March 19-20, 2010
Keynote Lectures to be delivered by:
Svetlana Boym (Harvard University, USA)
Thomas Moylan (University of Limerick, Ireland)
The lingering spectre of the past and the beckoning formlessness of the future are the two highly charged images that act as the starting points for the 21st annual international colloquium at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto. Negotiating the troubled terrain between them has been the work of cultural texts and an ongoing problem for cultural and literary criticism. The struggle to establish a meaningful present, which incorporates the triumphs and horrors of historical memory and enables comprehensible directions toward the future, is a shared task of art, philosophy, religion and political thought, among other activities. We suggest that narration – in its various poetic modes – is nothing more than this struggle for meaning, occurring over a multiplicity of social and cultural spaces. Likewise, we suggest that art, philosophy, political thought and religion, to the extent that they are concerned with the problems of meaning and temporality, may also be understood as narrative endeavours. We seek papers from diverse disciplines that bring the problems of narration, thus defined, to the fore and offer innovative solutions to them.
The arts have offered us rich and enduring images embodying the complex antinomies of this struggle, from the time bomb ticking in a sardine can in Petersburg to the ghost of Sethe’s murdered baby in Beloved to Paul Klee’s painting Angelus Novus. This painting is so eloquently described by Walter Benjamin as having its face turned to the past, wishing “to piece together what has been smashed,” but blown by a wind from Paradise “irresistibly into the future.” We take seriously Benjamin’s subsequent suggestion that the dialectical object – the historical ruin, the aesthetic text, the political moment – contains the latent potential to “explode the continuum of history.” We seek papers that interrogate the status of such objects and their relations to the problems of temporality in general, to current cultural and political situations, and to the ways we understand cultural and political situations of the past.
We also invite papers that consider the phenomenological and/or existential nature of time, its relation to the experiences of consciousness and the limitations (or impossibilities) of translating it into public language. Such papers may follow Heidegger in the contention that the subjective experience of time – “the horizon of being” – shapes the contours of social and cultural “historical” realities; on the other hand, they may follow Freud in the counter-contention that the temporal imperatives of organized domination are introverted against the living memory of primordial, liberated time (situated in the unconscious). It was perhaps Augustine who most clearly illuminated the phenomenological problem: “What is time? If no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to someone who asks, I do not know.” We seek re-evaluations of the relationship of subjectivity to culture, mediated by the experience of time.
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
• the study of texts from various historical periods; the political and intellectual goals of revisiting older texts; the selection of historical texts and critical modes of approaching them from the present;
• canonization/re-canonization/de-canonization and their relationship to temporality in general and their own historical moment (the problem of cultural history);
• the emergence of “historical thought” within history itself, and related artistic, political and philosophical movements (i.e. “the rise of the novel”; “enlightenment” thought; new teleologies; the explosion of imperialism); alternative modes of temporality and historical thought within modernity;
• revisionist approaches to history and historical thought based on subjective experience (i.e. women’s history, queer history, indigenous people’s history); the political projects and philosophical stakes of such revisions, and new directions for revisionism (i.e. moving beyond “herstory”; moving beyond the “outing” of history; moving beyond the postcolonial and “new” historicism);
• the role of capitalism and its social/cultural logic in the narration of history and the possibilities of the present; the limits within capitalism of imagining alternative futures, and literary, philosophical, or political challenges to those limits;
• the challenges of globalization and the crossing of political, social, cultural, and philosophical boundaries; the clashes and hybrids of opposing temporalities;
• the role of technology and science in articulations of modernity, and the relationship of these spheres to literary forms, political agendas, and philosophical discourses;
• science fictions, possible worlds, and literary utopias/dystopias; utopian planning in art and politics; utopian philosophy; lived utopias/dystopias;
• the status and temporality of memory, trauma and nostalgia, rooted in the present and directed toward both past and future.
Presentations should be limited to 20 minutes and should touch on the major theoretical, literary, or philosophical concerns of the colloquium. We invite scholars from all disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. We welcome graduate students, university faculty members and independent scholars alike as presenters (typically, we strive for a balance of graduate students and faculty/independent scholars).
Please submit an abstract of your proposed paper (no more than 350 words) to colloquium2010@gmail.com by September 30, 2009. We also welcome the proposal of panels consisting of 3 papers that address a common set of concerns. If proposing a panel, please submit a 250-word abstract describing the theme of the panel in addition to the standard abstract for each of the papers on the panel. All abstracts will undergo a blind-review selection process. Selected participants will be notified by email by October 15, 2009.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Graduate Bulletin Board
I'm updating my Bulletin Board and am interested in what you'd like to see. Since I've made the employment info and the funding info available electronically, I have a lot more space. I'm considering a calendar of deadlines and weekly schedules, but am open to suggestions. Post a comment and I'll see what I can do.
Employment Tips and Advice
I've added a new link to the menu on the right containing advice, articles, and tips to help you in your search for an academic job. Check it out - Employment Tips and Advice - and let me know what you think.
Employment Opportunities
The Employment Opportunities page has been updated to include a listing of websites that regularly post academic jobs. Check out the link on the menu on the right.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Crisis in Iran: A Public Question and Answer Forum
Saturday, July 18th,
Auditorium of the IU School of Journalism
Ernie Pyle Building
940 East Seventh Street
4 PM and will last for approximately 2 hours
This event will be free and open to the public
Members of the Indiana University community will conduct a public question and answer forum regarding the recent elections and protests in Iran. The panel members will include:
Dr. Jamsheed Choksy
Professor of Iranian Studies
Departments of Religious Studies, India Studies and Central Eurasian Studies Member of the National Council on the Humanities
Dr. Shahyar Daneshgar
Professor of Persian Language
Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Dr. Paul Losensky
Professor of Persian Language and Literature Departments of Central Eurasian Studies and Comparative Literature
Dr. Abdulkader Sinno
Professor of Middle Eastern Politics
Departments of Political Science and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Daniel Beben
PhD Student in Iranian History
Departments of History and Central Eurasian Studies
For more information please contact:
Dr. Jamsheed Choksy: jchoksy@indiana.edu Dr. Shahyar Daneshgar: sdaneshg@indiana.edu Daniel Beben: dbeben@indiana.edu
Auditorium of the IU School of Journalism
Ernie Pyle Building
940 East Seventh Street
4 PM and will last for approximately 2 hours
This event will be free and open to the public
Members of the Indiana University community will conduct a public question and answer forum regarding the recent elections and protests in Iran. The panel members will include:
Dr. Jamsheed Choksy
Professor of Iranian Studies
Departments of Religious Studies, India Studies and Central Eurasian Studies Member of the National Council on the Humanities
Dr. Shahyar Daneshgar
Professor of Persian Language
Department of Central Eurasian Studies
Dr. Paul Losensky
Professor of Persian Language and Literature Departments of Central Eurasian Studies and Comparative Literature
Dr. Abdulkader Sinno
Professor of Middle Eastern Politics
Departments of Political Science and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Daniel Beben
PhD Student in Iranian History
Departments of History and Central Eurasian Studies
For more information please contact:
Dr. Jamsheed Choksy: jchoksy@indiana.edu Dr. Shahyar Daneshgar: sdaneshg@indiana.edu Daniel Beben: dbeben@indiana.edu
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Flow: Volume 10, Issue 3
This issue of Flow includes a column by CMCL Alumna Michela Ardizzoni!
the new issue of Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture is available at http://flowtv.org.
This issue features columns from Matthew Ferrari, Denise Mann, Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt, Michela Ardizzoni, and Adrienne McLean.
This issue's columns in brief:
"Mixed Martial Arts? Burgeoning Wild Kingdom" by Matthew Ferrari
(http://flowtv.org/?p=4067)
A look at masculinity and the primal in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and mixed martial arts.
"Does 'Heroes 360' Represent NBC's Blistering Vision of the Future?"
by Denise Mann (http://flowtv.org/?p=4089) An exploration of the ongoing tension between user-generated and official, network generated content in the Heroes websites.
"Hanging by a Thread" by Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt
(http://flowtv.org/?p=4088)
For better and worse, the body guy's big penis is all he has left on the new HBO series Hung.
"Democracy without Dissent: Satirical News in Italy" by Michela Ardizzoni (http://flowtv.org/?p=4066) A consideration of the Italian, satirical news program ?Striscia la Notizia? and how it reflects the political corruption of the prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.
"Performing Live: Acting, Authenticity, and Reality Television" by Adrienne McLean (http://flowtv.org/?p=4075) An examination of the relationship between the 'ontology of liveness'
and 'reality' in television today.
Interested in supporting Flow? Click HERE (http://flowtv.org/?page_id=2143).
FlowTV is now on Twitter! Follow Flow's Twitter page at:
http://twitter.com/flowtv .
FlowTV is also on Facebook! Get updates on your news feed by becoming a fan:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Flow-TV-A-Critical-Forum-on-Television-and-Media-Culture/223357900312?ref=ts
the new issue of Flow: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture is available at http://flowtv.org.
This issue features columns from Matthew Ferrari, Denise Mann, Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt, Michela Ardizzoni, and Adrienne McLean.
This issue's columns in brief:
"Mixed Martial Arts? Burgeoning Wild Kingdom" by Matthew Ferrari
(http://flowtv.org/?p=4067)
A look at masculinity and the primal in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and mixed martial arts.
"Does 'Heroes 360' Represent NBC's Blistering Vision of the Future?"
by Denise Mann (http://flowtv.org/?p=4089) An exploration of the ongoing tension between user-generated and official, network generated content in the Heroes websites.
"Hanging by a Thread" by Peter Lehman and Susan Hunt
(http://flowtv.org/?p=4088)
For better and worse, the body guy's big penis is all he has left on the new HBO series Hung.
"Democracy without Dissent: Satirical News in Italy" by Michela Ardizzoni (http://flowtv.org/?p=4066) A consideration of the Italian, satirical news program ?Striscia la Notizia? and how it reflects the political corruption of the prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.
"Performing Live: Acting, Authenticity, and Reality Television" by Adrienne McLean (http://flowtv.org/?p=4075) An examination of the relationship between the 'ontology of liveness'
and 'reality' in television today.
Interested in supporting Flow? Click HERE (http://flowtv.org/?page_id=2143).
FlowTV is now on Twitter! Follow Flow's Twitter page at:
http://twitter.com/flowtv .
FlowTV is also on Facebook! Get updates on your news feed by becoming a fan:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Flow-TV-A-Critical-Forum-on-Television-and-Media-Culture/223357900312?ref=ts
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Call for Papers: Anthropology Section, Indiana Academy of Science
The IAS Fall Meeting will be October 22 & 23 – Indiana University Kokomo
The annual meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science is a multi-disciplinary event aimed at coordinating scientific research in our state. Papers on scientific research and science education are presented, and awards and special recognition are conferred. There is a broad spectrum of participants providing opportunities for exchange of scientific information.
We’re hoping to pack the room at this year’s anthropology section meeting. Anthropology related research both in and out of the state of Indiana is welcome, and students are highly encouraged to submit abstracts for presentation. Abstracts should be submitted to both Susan Spencer (sdspence@indiana.edu) and Christopher Moore (moorecr@uky.edu) by Friday, August 21st. Abstracts should summarize the significant facts to be presented and should be limited to 250 words. Presenters will need to purchase an academy membership ($10 for students). The membership form is online at http://indianaacademyofscience.org/htmlfiles/membership.html.
Special events at this year’s meeting include:
Special Lectures in Plant Diseases, Cell Biology, Plant Systematics, and Environmental Quality Biodiversity Workshops
Meeting information is available on the IAS website:
www.indianaacademyofscience.org/
Directions and campus maps are available at www.iuk.edu/maps/
The annual meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science is a multi-disciplinary event aimed at coordinating scientific research in our state. Papers on scientific research and science education are presented, and awards and special recognition are conferred. There is a broad spectrum of participants providing opportunities for exchange of scientific information.
We’re hoping to pack the room at this year’s anthropology section meeting. Anthropology related research both in and out of the state of Indiana is welcome, and students are highly encouraged to submit abstracts for presentation. Abstracts should be submitted to both Susan Spencer (sdspence@indiana.edu) and Christopher Moore (moorecr@uky.edu) by Friday, August 21st. Abstracts should summarize the significant facts to be presented and should be limited to 250 words. Presenters will need to purchase an academy membership ($10 for students). The membership form is online at http://indianaacademyofscience.org/htmlfiles/membership.html.
Special events at this year’s meeting include:
Special Lectures in Plant Diseases, Cell Biology, Plant Systematics, and Environmental Quality Biodiversity Workshops
Meeting information is available on the IAS website:
www.indianaacademyofscience.org/
Directions and campus maps are available at www.iuk.edu/maps/
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Graduate Student Life at Indiana University
I've just learned about a blog written by current IU graduate students who participate in a program called Graduate Student Emissaries. Although the GSE is focuses on students i STEM disciplines, the blog has great info for all grad students at IU.
The URL is: http://www.grademissaries.blogspot.com/
I'll also put a link to this on the Links list.
The URL is: http://www.grademissaries.blogspot.com/
I'll also put a link to this on the Links list.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Formatting for IU CMCL Letterhead
If you need to write letters of recommendation or any other letters on our official letterhead, the formatting should be:
Top Margin - 1.9 inches
Sides and Bottom Margins - 1 inch
The second page (just the watermarked paper) can have 1 inch all around margins.
Top Margin - 1.9 inches
Sides and Bottom Margins - 1 inch
The second page (just the watermarked paper) can have 1 inch all around margins.
Course Offering: SLIS S514
Please consider taking S514: Computerization in Society in the School of Library & Information Science (SLIS) this fall.
Information and communication technologies are becoming more and more pervasive, and our ability to access and organize information is shaping how we do business and interact socially. This course discusses issues, theories, and practice in this emerging information society. The first part of the course focuses on concepts and socio-technical frameworks important in understanding the embedded nature of information and information technology in society. In the second part of the course, students apply these concepts and frameworks to case studies and related writings—for example, digital divide, privacy, news reporting, etc.
The topics for the final papers in the past include:
• Surveillance and its relevance for IU students
• One laptop per child
• Indymedia: a Habermasian Analysis
• Virtual learning:Education and Second Life
• Open source software
• Political Use of the Internet
This course will be helpful for those who are interested in understanding the complex relationships that exist among and between information technology, people, and institutions in any social setting.
I’d be happy to talk about this course if you have any questions. Please feel free to contact me (nhara@indiana.edu).
Information and communication technologies are becoming more and more pervasive, and our ability to access and organize information is shaping how we do business and interact socially. This course discusses issues, theories, and practice in this emerging information society. The first part of the course focuses on concepts and socio-technical frameworks important in understanding the embedded nature of information and information technology in society. In the second part of the course, students apply these concepts and frameworks to case studies and related writings—for example, digital divide, privacy, news reporting, etc.
The topics for the final papers in the past include:
• Surveillance and its relevance for IU students
• One laptop per child
• Indymedia: a Habermasian Analysis
• Virtual learning:Education and Second Life
• Open source software
• Political Use of the Internet
This course will be helpful for those who are interested in understanding the complex relationships that exist among and between information technology, people, and institutions in any social setting.
I’d be happy to talk about this course if you have any questions. Please feel free to contact me (nhara@indiana.edu).
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Call for Papers: Creative Media
Special issue of Culture Machine vol. 11; http://www.culturemachine.net
edited by Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska (both at Goldsmiths, University of London)
This is a call for papers and non-papers alike. It is open to artists, intellectuals, writers, philosophers, analysts, scientists, journalists and media professionals who have something to say about the media that extends beyond the conventional forms of media analysis. It is also a call for enacting a different, creative mode of doing ‘media studies’. Taking seriously both the philosophical legacy of what the Kantian and Foucauldian tradition calls ‘critique’, and the transformative and interventionist energy of the creative arts, we are looking for playful, experimental yet rigorous cross-disciplinary interventions and inventions that are equally at home with critical theory and media practice, and that can make a difference – academically, institutionally, politically, ethically and aesthetically.
This creative media project arises out of an attempt on our part to work through and reconcile, in a manner that would be ‘satisfactory’ on both an intellectual and artistic level, academic writing and creative practice. This effort has to do with more than just the usual anxieties associated with attempts to breach the ‘theory-practice’ divide and negotiate the associated issues of rigour, skill, technical competence and aesthetic judgment. Working in and with creative media is for us first and foremost an epistemological question of how we can perform knowledge differently through a set of practices that also ‘produce things’.
‘Creative media’ functions as both a theme and a methodology for us here then. Our aim is to produce an issue ‘about creative media’ by means of a variety of creative media. We are therefore seeking works which are situated across the conventional boundaries of theory and practice, art and activism, social sciences and the humanities. Such works can take a variety of forms – essays on, polemics with regard to, and performances of what it means to ‘do media’ both creatively and critically. They can also incorporate a variety of media, from moving and still images, through to podcasts, wikis and tweets, to creative writing and traditional papers. (And yes, language also counts as a medium.)
Executive summary (of sorts)
We are looking for surprising, inventive and original work on media that does something different, is equally at home with critical theory and media practice, and plays with the medium of the media.
Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2009
Potential contributors are encouraged to contact the editors prior to this date to discuss their possible submissions.
Please submit your contributions by email to:
Joanna Zylinska & Sarah Kember:
j.zylinska@gold.ac.uk & s.kember@gold.ac.uk
All contributions will be peer-reviewed.
edited by Sarah Kember and Joanna Zylinska (both at Goldsmiths, University of London)
This is a call for papers and non-papers alike. It is open to artists, intellectuals, writers, philosophers, analysts, scientists, journalists and media professionals who have something to say about the media that extends beyond the conventional forms of media analysis. It is also a call for enacting a different, creative mode of doing ‘media studies’. Taking seriously both the philosophical legacy of what the Kantian and Foucauldian tradition calls ‘critique’, and the transformative and interventionist energy of the creative arts, we are looking for playful, experimental yet rigorous cross-disciplinary interventions and inventions that are equally at home with critical theory and media practice, and that can make a difference – academically, institutionally, politically, ethically and aesthetically.
This creative media project arises out of an attempt on our part to work through and reconcile, in a manner that would be ‘satisfactory’ on both an intellectual and artistic level, academic writing and creative practice. This effort has to do with more than just the usual anxieties associated with attempts to breach the ‘theory-practice’ divide and negotiate the associated issues of rigour, skill, technical competence and aesthetic judgment. Working in and with creative media is for us first and foremost an epistemological question of how we can perform knowledge differently through a set of practices that also ‘produce things’.
‘Creative media’ functions as both a theme and a methodology for us here then. Our aim is to produce an issue ‘about creative media’ by means of a variety of creative media. We are therefore seeking works which are situated across the conventional boundaries of theory and practice, art and activism, social sciences and the humanities. Such works can take a variety of forms – essays on, polemics with regard to, and performances of what it means to ‘do media’ both creatively and critically. They can also incorporate a variety of media, from moving and still images, through to podcasts, wikis and tweets, to creative writing and traditional papers. (And yes, language also counts as a medium.)
Executive summary (of sorts)
We are looking for surprising, inventive and original work on media that does something different, is equally at home with critical theory and media practice, and plays with the medium of the media.
Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2009
Potential contributors are encouraged to contact the editors prior to this date to discuss their possible submissions.
Please submit your contributions by email to:
Joanna Zylinska & Sarah Kember:
j.zylinska@gold.ac.uk & s.kember@gold.ac.uk
All contributions will be peer-reviewed.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
AU Center for Social Media - Newsletter
UPCOMING EVENTS
Coming Soon:
Public Media 2.0 Field Report: Building Social Media Infrastructure to Engage Publics --Twitter Vote Report and Inauguration Report '09
Research fellow Nina Keim and Future of Public Media director Jessica Clark released their most recent field report at the Public Democracy Forum conference in New York last week. Watch your RSS feed of our blog next week as we release it online. If you can't wait and want a copy now, send us an email at socialmedia@american.edu and we'll send you the preview version. The report reviews the achievements of both Twitter Vote Report and Inauguration Report '09 as they used Twitter tools to engage and organize publics.
THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC MEDIA
Future of Public Media Session at SILVERDOCS!
Watch our fun-filled, role-playing simulation that asks a cast of experts to step out of 2009 and project themselves into the public media of the future: It's 2014, and the new titans are Ticketmaster, Google, Amazon and Hulu. Do you know where your public media went? At the SILVERDOCS conference Future of Public Media panel, we threw futurists, investors, business folk and public media programmers and makers together to invent a future in which web media rules. We didn't forget to film the entire session so you can watch it here! Read on to check out the cast of the session here.
CSM: In Good Company
The School of Communications and Center for Social Media were recently the subjects of Mark Glaser's Mediashift blog. The post explored how American University's School of Communications is evolving into an epicenter for the education of new journalists and media makers. Glaser's piece includes video interviews with the Center's director, Pat Aufderheide, as well as SOC Dean Larry Kirkman, Jan Schaffer from J-Lab, Charles Lewis from the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Amy Eisman, the head of writing classes at SOC. Read the article here.
J-Lab's New Report --New Media Makers
Congratulations to our suite partner and ally J-Lab on the release of a new report New Media Makers -A Toolkit for Innovators in Community Media and Grant Making. The report reviews the growing trend of philanthropic organizations increasingly funding media projects. Read the press release or check out the report.
Future of Investigative Reporting Arrived
What happens to the crucial public media role of watchdogging the powerful as newspapers die? Nonprofits have poured funding into hard-hitting investigative reporting through The Center for Investigative Reporting, The Center for Public Integrity, ProPublica and now the brand-new Investigative Reporting Workshop (part of American University's School of Communication). Now the Associated Press--the nation's news lifeline--has agreed to carry these organizations' work. There couldn't be a more powerful stamp of approval for nonprofit news. Read the press release here.
Public Media Showcase: One Economy Corps
This month's Public Media 2.0 showcase features One Economy Corporation, a global nonprofit that aims to increase access to technology and information for everyone, regardless of income. The website hosts a number of toolboxes. While each toolbox contains interactive tools full of valuable information that helps users make lifestyle changes, the resources rarely extend beyond personal improvement. Read more here.
Stranger than Fiction: Beyond Broadcast
At the 2009 Beyond Broadcast conference, hosted by USC Annenberg's School of Communications in early June, attendees from more than a dozen countries worked together to build scenarios predicting the evolution of public service media in regions buffeted by social, political and economic transitions. A week later the future long predicted by Beyond Broadcast organizers arrived earlier than planned, as social media tools became the main source of news on Iran's contested elections. Read more here.
Moz Diaries --Digital Journalism At Its Best
At the SILVERDOCS conference the AFI Digital Content Lab Showcase panel hosted a wide array of innovative ideas. Most noteworthy were the journalistic pursuits of Kit Carson. Kit shared his work on one of his most recent projects, Moz Diaries. In collaboration with filmmaker Tim Johnson, Kit traveled down to Mozambique to document the state of transition of the country since its recent "miraculous" success in the global economic sphere. His choice of record? A cell phone camera. Read more here.
Our Stories DC at SILVERDOCS
SOC's Amy Hendrick attended SILVERDOCS with Brittany Barbour, one of the filmmakers from her youth media project, Our Stories DC. Barbour screened her film and participated in a panel discussion at the festival. (Our Stories DC was funded as one of our Future of Public Media demonstration grants last year.) The panel was made up of five other youth, some of who traveled to the festival from as far as Mozambique. They demonstrated a diversity of experience that has not historically been a part of public media. Read more here.
COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE
Getting Legal at SILVERDOCS
Peter Jaszi and Pat Aufderheide had fun presenting on the panel, "The Legal 411 on Film and Media in the Classroom." The SILVERDOCS conference now has a thriving strand of panels directed at teachers who use audio-visual material in the classroom and who work with kids who make video. One of the teachers' biggest headaches is understanding their rights under copyright. Can students upload their videos to YouTube? Are they permitted to clip out material from commercial (and encrypted) DVDs? Can teachers post clips onto their electronic teaching platforms? Aufderheide and Jaszi were able to help them clarify. Read more here.
Who's Plagiarizing Now?
Copyright protectionists decry copying as theft and plagiarism-and let's just acknowledge here that sometimes it is. The well-funded efforts of copyright owners' organizations to promote this message, though, has thoroughly confused many people about their fair use rights. So there's a certain pleasure-what the Germans call schadenfreude -in discovering that a major Canadian research organization plagiarized an American lobbying group's report. Read more here.
Fair Use Bunker Scene
Have you seen Electronic Frontier Foundation Board Chairman Brad Templeton's remix of the popular meme "the bunker scene" from the 2004 film Downfall? In this version, Hitler is trying to stop people from making remixes by invoking the DMCA. (Meta enough for you?) EFF's article When Fair Use Is Fairly Difficult describes what technical contortions Templeton had to go through to use his fair use rights. For more clarity on what your fair use rights are, click here.
Fair Use Question of the Month: Free Legal Advice for Fair Use
Every month the Center for Social Media answers a new question concerning fair use. This month's question deals with getting free legal advice for fair use and the advantages of reading our Codes before doing so. Read more here.
EVOLVING DOCUMENTARY
SILVERDOCS Wrap Up
The SILVERDOCS conference and film festival this year turned out to be a great success. We were very impressed by Sky Sitney's outstanding programming of the film festival and Diana Ingraham's expert planning of the conference. Read Center's director Pat Aufderheide's favorite film highlights here and associate director Alison Hanold's complete conference overview here.
'How Green Is Green?' Panel at SILVERDOCS
On June 18 SOC Professor and lead author of our recent publication Code of Best Practices in Sustainable Filmmaking Larry Engel participated on a panel discussing green filmmaking with co-directors of No Impact Man, Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein. The panel was led by Amy King, a longtime Silverdocs associate. It started with a clip from No Impact Man, a great film about Colin Beavan and his wife, Michele. The film traces the family's year-long effort to create no carbon, or at least keep it to a bare minimum. Read more here about Larry's experience on the panel here.
Lioness Making an Impact on Legislation
The new film -->Lioness shows how a documentary positioned at the centerpiece of a strategic outreach campaign can shape an issue on the public agenda and have a direct impact on public policy. The National Defense Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year 2010 was approved by the House Armed Services Committee last week. Included in its recommendations is a section titled "Recognizing Service Women Who Have Participated as ''Lionesses'' During Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan." Read more on this policy here. For more on this trend, read media fellow Barbara Abrash's research on Social Issue Documentary: The Evolution of Public Engagement here.
Media That Matters Festival
This month, Alison Hanold attended the premiere of the ninth annual Media that Matters festival, presented by Arts Engine. The festival is comprised of 12 short films with a social justice focus. The entire festival is available online. The films are various in their genres - some documentary, some narrative, some PSA, and even one "docu-music video." You can watch all the films here. Keep an eye out for the festival as it will be traveling across the globe with stops in Seattle, Rome, Detroit, Philadelphia, DC, and more. View the Events Calendar.
The Prenups Release
Center for Social Media is proud to be a co-sponsor of The Prenups: What Filmmakers and Funders Should Talk About Before Tying the Knot. Developed by Active Voice in close collaboration with independent producers, funders, foundation affinity groups, scholars, and issue experts - including us - this peer-to-peer resource is designed to improve communication and collaborations on social-issue media projects. Take a look!
BAVC Producer's Institute
Associate director Alison Hanold and media fellow Barbara Abrash spent a few days in San Francisco at BAVC's Producer's Institute working with documentary filmmakers to build out their outreach campaigns this month. You can read Alison's takeaways here and Barbara's here.
OTHER NEWS
POV's Upcoming Season
As close partners and huge fans of POV, we're excited to announce the upcoming season which will be aired on PBS stations all over the United States. You can see the entire season schedule here but we want to highlight three films in particular that shouldn't be missed.
The Reckoning release
On July 14th our friends Paco De Onis and Pamela Yates' new film The Reckoning will be aired nationally on PBS. -->
The Reckoning follows dynamic International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo and his team for 3 years across 4 continents as Ocampo issues arrest warrants for Lord's Resistance Army leaders in Uganda, puts Congolese warlords on trial, shakes up the Colombian justice system, and charges Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir with genocide in Darfur, challenging the UN Security Council to arrest him. It is not yet in distribution so don't miss this chance to see it on PBS's P.O.V Series July 14th. Check your local listings here for more details.
Watch the trailer.
New Muslim Cool release
On June 23rd New Muslim Cool was aired on PBS stations nation-wide and now it's available online to watch in its entirety for free! Watch here now. Puerto Rican-American rapper Hamza Pérez pulled himself out of drug dealing and street life 12 years ago and became a Muslim. Now he's moved to Pittsburgh's tough North Side to start a new religious community, rebuild his shattered family and take his message of faith to other young people through hard-hitting hip-hop music. But when the FBI raids his mosque, Hamza must confront the realities of the post-9/11 world, and himself. Produced in association with Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB) and the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM).
The Way We Get By release and theatrical run
Another film in POV's lineup is The Way We Get By. This award-winning film begins as a seemingly idiosyncratic story about troop greeters --a group of senior citizens who gather daily at a small airport to thank American soldiers departing and returning from Iraq. The film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story about aging, loneliness, war and mortality. Filmmakers Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly participated in this year's Producer's Institute at BAVC where they developed an interactive resource site which allows friends, family and supporters of the troops to continue their mission of caring for veterans. The site is currently in development and will launch in conjunction with the national television broadcast on November 11. Before airing on PBS, the film will have a theatrical run with a premiere at New York's IFC Center on July 17. If you're in the New York area, we highly recommend you check it out!
AIR +Third Coast at PRPD
On September 15-18 , join the Public Radio Program Directors Association and the Association of Independents in Radio in their third annual Public Radio Programming Conference in Cleveland, OH. The gathering is the largest national industry conference focusing on programming. Third Coast organizers Johanna Zorn and Julie Shapiro will develop special sessions designed to appeal to both producers and programmers, and bring their signature to celebrating the best in audio craft. Register here.
Work In Progress Screening Washington DC, July 10
Join Docs in Progress for a screening and feedback session for the following films:Back Up! concrete diaries (15 minute excerpt)by Monique Hazeur and Nijla MuminSidewalks, street crossings, corridors, and hallways are hostile territory where women and girls experience verbal assault from men on a daily basis. How are women fighting back and defining their own personal and public spaces?Keeping the Kibbutz! (60 minute rough cut)by Ben Crosbie and Tessa MoranAn examination of the challenges of a community in transition from the perspective of members of an Israeli kibbutz who are facing the inevitable end of their communal living experience.Visit the website at http://www.docsinprogress.org for more information.
Reel Grrls New Doc Film
Reel Grrls, a Seattle based production company, just released a new short doc titled A Generation of Consolidation. The film can be viewed online in its entirety at www.generationofconsolidation.org. A Generation of Consolidation was created by high school students who are working to stop further consolidation of media corporations. It has won awards at the Seattle Independent Film Festival and the Seattle International Film Festival. These student filmmakers have harnessed the power of documentary film to make their voices heard. While they fight to keep multiple channels of mainstream media alive, they in turn create informative engaging media themselves. Watch the film here.
Coming Soon:
Public Media 2.0 Field Report: Building Social Media Infrastructure to Engage Publics --Twitter Vote Report and Inauguration Report '09
Research fellow Nina Keim and Future of Public Media director Jessica Clark released their most recent field report at the Public Democracy Forum conference in New York last week. Watch your RSS feed of our blog next week as we release it online. If you can't wait and want a copy now, send us an email at socialmedia@american.edu and we'll send you the preview version. The report reviews the achievements of both Twitter Vote Report and Inauguration Report '09 as they used Twitter tools to engage and organize publics.
THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC MEDIA
Future of Public Media Session at SILVERDOCS!
Watch our fun-filled, role-playing simulation that asks a cast of experts to step out of 2009 and project themselves into the public media of the future: It's 2014, and the new titans are Ticketmaster, Google, Amazon and Hulu. Do you know where your public media went? At the SILVERDOCS conference Future of Public Media panel, we threw futurists, investors, business folk and public media programmers and makers together to invent a future in which web media rules. We didn't forget to film the entire session so you can watch it here! Read on to check out the cast of the session here.
CSM: In Good Company
The School of Communications and Center for Social Media were recently the subjects of Mark Glaser's Mediashift blog. The post explored how American University's School of Communications is evolving into an epicenter for the education of new journalists and media makers. Glaser's piece includes video interviews with the Center's director, Pat Aufderheide, as well as SOC Dean Larry Kirkman, Jan Schaffer from J-Lab, Charles Lewis from the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Amy Eisman, the head of writing classes at SOC. Read the article here.
J-Lab's New Report --New Media Makers
Congratulations to our suite partner and ally J-Lab on the release of a new report New Media Makers -A Toolkit for Innovators in Community Media and Grant Making. The report reviews the growing trend of philanthropic organizations increasingly funding media projects. Read the press release or check out the report.
Future of Investigative Reporting Arrived
What happens to the crucial public media role of watchdogging the powerful as newspapers die? Nonprofits have poured funding into hard-hitting investigative reporting through The Center for Investigative Reporting, The Center for Public Integrity, ProPublica and now the brand-new Investigative Reporting Workshop (part of American University's School of Communication). Now the Associated Press--the nation's news lifeline--has agreed to carry these organizations' work. There couldn't be a more powerful stamp of approval for nonprofit news. Read the press release here.
Public Media Showcase: One Economy Corps
This month's Public Media 2.0 showcase features One Economy Corporation, a global nonprofit that aims to increase access to technology and information for everyone, regardless of income. The website hosts a number of toolboxes. While each toolbox contains interactive tools full of valuable information that helps users make lifestyle changes, the resources rarely extend beyond personal improvement. Read more here.
Stranger than Fiction: Beyond Broadcast
At the 2009 Beyond Broadcast conference, hosted by USC Annenberg's School of Communications in early June, attendees from more than a dozen countries worked together to build scenarios predicting the evolution of public service media in regions buffeted by social, political and economic transitions. A week later the future long predicted by Beyond Broadcast organizers arrived earlier than planned, as social media tools became the main source of news on Iran's contested elections. Read more here.
Moz Diaries --Digital Journalism At Its Best
At the SILVERDOCS conference the AFI Digital Content Lab Showcase panel hosted a wide array of innovative ideas. Most noteworthy were the journalistic pursuits of Kit Carson. Kit shared his work on one of his most recent projects, Moz Diaries. In collaboration with filmmaker Tim Johnson, Kit traveled down to Mozambique to document the state of transition of the country since its recent "miraculous" success in the global economic sphere. His choice of record? A cell phone camera. Read more here.
Our Stories DC at SILVERDOCS
SOC's Amy Hendrick attended SILVERDOCS with Brittany Barbour, one of the filmmakers from her youth media project, Our Stories DC. Barbour screened her film and participated in a panel discussion at the festival. (Our Stories DC was funded as one of our Future of Public Media demonstration grants last year.) The panel was made up of five other youth, some of who traveled to the festival from as far as Mozambique. They demonstrated a diversity of experience that has not historically been a part of public media. Read more here.
COPYRIGHT AND FAIR USE
Getting Legal at SILVERDOCS
Peter Jaszi and Pat Aufderheide had fun presenting on the panel, "The Legal 411 on Film and Media in the Classroom." The SILVERDOCS conference now has a thriving strand of panels directed at teachers who use audio-visual material in the classroom and who work with kids who make video. One of the teachers' biggest headaches is understanding their rights under copyright. Can students upload their videos to YouTube? Are they permitted to clip out material from commercial (and encrypted) DVDs? Can teachers post clips onto their electronic teaching platforms? Aufderheide and Jaszi were able to help them clarify. Read more here.
Who's Plagiarizing Now?
Copyright protectionists decry copying as theft and plagiarism-and let's just acknowledge here that sometimes it is. The well-funded efforts of copyright owners' organizations to promote this message, though, has thoroughly confused many people about their fair use rights. So there's a certain pleasure-what the Germans call schadenfreude -in discovering that a major Canadian research organization plagiarized an American lobbying group's report. Read more here.
Fair Use Bunker Scene
Have you seen Electronic Frontier Foundation Board Chairman Brad Templeton's remix of the popular meme "the bunker scene" from the 2004 film Downfall? In this version, Hitler is trying to stop people from making remixes by invoking the DMCA. (Meta enough for you?) EFF's article When Fair Use Is Fairly Difficult describes what technical contortions Templeton had to go through to use his fair use rights. For more clarity on what your fair use rights are, click here.
Fair Use Question of the Month: Free Legal Advice for Fair Use
Every month the Center for Social Media answers a new question concerning fair use. This month's question deals with getting free legal advice for fair use and the advantages of reading our Codes before doing so. Read more here.
EVOLVING DOCUMENTARY
SILVERDOCS Wrap Up
The SILVERDOCS conference and film festival this year turned out to be a great success. We were very impressed by Sky Sitney's outstanding programming of the film festival and Diana Ingraham's expert planning of the conference. Read Center's director Pat Aufderheide's favorite film highlights here and associate director Alison Hanold's complete conference overview here.
'How Green Is Green?' Panel at SILVERDOCS
On June 18 SOC Professor and lead author of our recent publication Code of Best Practices in Sustainable Filmmaking Larry Engel participated on a panel discussing green filmmaking with co-directors of No Impact Man, Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein. The panel was led by Amy King, a longtime Silverdocs associate. It started with a clip from No Impact Man, a great film about Colin Beavan and his wife, Michele. The film traces the family's year-long effort to create no carbon, or at least keep it to a bare minimum. Read more here about Larry's experience on the panel here.
Lioness Making an Impact on Legislation
The new film -->Lioness shows how a documentary positioned at the centerpiece of a strategic outreach campaign can shape an issue on the public agenda and have a direct impact on public policy. The National Defense Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year 2010 was approved by the House Armed Services Committee last week. Included in its recommendations is a section titled "Recognizing Service Women Who Have Participated as ''Lionesses'' During Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan." Read more on this policy here. For more on this trend, read media fellow Barbara Abrash's research on Social Issue Documentary: The Evolution of Public Engagement here.
Media That Matters Festival
This month, Alison Hanold attended the premiere of the ninth annual Media that Matters festival, presented by Arts Engine. The festival is comprised of 12 short films with a social justice focus. The entire festival is available online. The films are various in their genres - some documentary, some narrative, some PSA, and even one "docu-music video." You can watch all the films here. Keep an eye out for the festival as it will be traveling across the globe with stops in Seattle, Rome, Detroit, Philadelphia, DC, and more. View the Events Calendar.
The Prenups Release
Center for Social Media is proud to be a co-sponsor of The Prenups: What Filmmakers and Funders Should Talk About Before Tying the Knot. Developed by Active Voice in close collaboration with independent producers, funders, foundation affinity groups, scholars, and issue experts - including us - this peer-to-peer resource is designed to improve communication and collaborations on social-issue media projects. Take a look!
BAVC Producer's Institute
Associate director Alison Hanold and media fellow Barbara Abrash spent a few days in San Francisco at BAVC's Producer's Institute working with documentary filmmakers to build out their outreach campaigns this month. You can read Alison's takeaways here and Barbara's here.
OTHER NEWS
POV's Upcoming Season
As close partners and huge fans of POV, we're excited to announce the upcoming season which will be aired on PBS stations all over the United States. You can see the entire season schedule here but we want to highlight three films in particular that shouldn't be missed.
The Reckoning release
On July 14th our friends Paco De Onis and Pamela Yates' new film The Reckoning will be aired nationally on PBS. -->
The Reckoning follows dynamic International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo and his team for 3 years across 4 continents as Ocampo issues arrest warrants for Lord's Resistance Army leaders in Uganda, puts Congolese warlords on trial, shakes up the Colombian justice system, and charges Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir with genocide in Darfur, challenging the UN Security Council to arrest him. It is not yet in distribution so don't miss this chance to see it on PBS's P.O.V Series July 14th. Check your local listings here for more details.
Watch the trailer.
New Muslim Cool release
On June 23rd New Muslim Cool was aired on PBS stations nation-wide and now it's available online to watch in its entirety for free! Watch here now. Puerto Rican-American rapper Hamza Pérez pulled himself out of drug dealing and street life 12 years ago and became a Muslim. Now he's moved to Pittsburgh's tough North Side to start a new religious community, rebuild his shattered family and take his message of faith to other young people through hard-hitting hip-hop music. But when the FBI raids his mosque, Hamza must confront the realities of the post-9/11 world, and himself. Produced in association with Latino Public Broadcasting (LPB) and the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM).
The Way We Get By release and theatrical run
Another film in POV's lineup is The Way We Get By. This award-winning film begins as a seemingly idiosyncratic story about troop greeters --a group of senior citizens who gather daily at a small airport to thank American soldiers departing and returning from Iraq. The film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story about aging, loneliness, war and mortality. Filmmakers Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly participated in this year's Producer's Institute at BAVC where they developed an interactive resource site which allows friends, family and supporters of the troops to continue their mission of caring for veterans. The site is currently in development and will launch in conjunction with the national television broadcast on November 11. Before airing on PBS, the film will have a theatrical run with a premiere at New York's IFC Center on July 17. If you're in the New York area, we highly recommend you check it out!
AIR +Third Coast at PRPD
On September 15-18 , join the Public Radio Program Directors Association and the Association of Independents in Radio in their third annual Public Radio Programming Conference in Cleveland, OH. The gathering is the largest national industry conference focusing on programming. Third Coast organizers Johanna Zorn and Julie Shapiro will develop special sessions designed to appeal to both producers and programmers, and bring their signature to celebrating the best in audio craft. Register here.
Work In Progress Screening Washington DC, July 10
Join Docs in Progress for a screening and feedback session for the following films:Back Up! concrete diaries (15 minute excerpt)by Monique Hazeur and Nijla MuminSidewalks, street crossings, corridors, and hallways are hostile territory where women and girls experience verbal assault from men on a daily basis. How are women fighting back and defining their own personal and public spaces?Keeping the Kibbutz! (60 minute rough cut)by Ben Crosbie and Tessa MoranAn examination of the challenges of a community in transition from the perspective of members of an Israeli kibbutz who are facing the inevitable end of their communal living experience.Visit the website at http://www.docsinprogress.org for more information.
Reel Grrls New Doc Film
Reel Grrls, a Seattle based production company, just released a new short doc titled A Generation of Consolidation. The film can be viewed online in its entirety at www.generationofconsolidation.org. A Generation of Consolidation was created by high school students who are working to stop further consolidation of media corporations. It has won awards at the Seattle Independent Film Festival and the Seattle International Film Festival. These student filmmakers have harnessed the power of documentary film to make their voices heard. While they fight to keep multiple channels of mainstream media alive, they in turn create informative engaging media themselves. Watch the film here.
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