Conference on Using New Media & Health Communication Technologies
April 15, 2010, 8:00am - 5:00pm
April 16, 2010, 8:00am - 3:00pm
UC Berkeley Center for Health Leadership
Clark Kerr Conference Center, 2601 Warring Street, Berkeley, CA
Our sister organization, the New Orleans VideoVoices Project partnered with kids to make this incredible participatory film about their Iberville neighborhood.
Iberville Boys & Girls Club from Lily Keber on Vimeo.
On Saturday, December 12th, 2009 at 12pm New Orleans Video Voices, the Make it Right Foundation, and the Contemporary Arts Center will host a reception for the presentation of the youth-directed video exhibit From Devastation to Hope: Rebuilding with Faith and Love and a youth-created photo exhibit. The exhibit was created by four - twelve and thirteen year old girls under the direction of the members of New Orleans Video Voices. Both the photo and video exhibit display the resiliency of Make It Right Homeowners and Lower 9th Ward Residents as they continue to rebuild not only homes, but the 9th Ward community.
New Orleans Video Voices (NOVV) is a local media collective dedicated to using new media to address underlying problems of racial tension, education, economics, health, and health care in our communities. Through community member participation, health and resilience is promoted and sustained. NOVV uses of documentary film to foster critical thinking and media literacy skills, engages the creative power of community and amplifies the voices of a largely unheard population.
Noella Anderson, Sade Jones, Ebony Thompson, and Anastasia Woods all served as youth directors for the documentary From Devastation to Hope: Rebuilding with Faith and Love. Prior to directing this film, the girls directed From Our Point of View: Joining Hands to Save Our Community, a film that explores the history, triumphs, and struggles of the 7th Ward Treme area. This film won first place in the Elisabeth Irwin Human Rights Film Festival in New York, New York.
Anastasia Woods
Anastasia, 12, is an 8th grade Honors student at Slidell Junior High School and a Junior
Mentor and Facilitator for New Orleans Video Voices. Originally from New Orleans, she
appreciates the culture and traditions of her home city. She aspires to be a Pediatrician.
Until then she enjoys movies, singing, dancing, maintaining excellent grades, and
media. As a member of New Orleans Video Voices, she has the opportunity to continue
to do the things that she loves the most; documentaries.
Ebony Thompson
Ebony,12, is an eighth grader at Holy Ghost Private School and a Junior Mentor and
Facilitator for New Orleans Video Voices. She is an intelligent young lady who takes her
media skills to new heights. Ebony wants to be a doctor and a cosmetologist when she
grows up. She enjoys hair design, makeup, fashion, movies, singing, and of course
media. She has a natural knack for interviewing.
Sade Jones
Sade 12, is a seventh grade Honors student at John Dilbert School and a Junior
Mentor and Facilitator for New Orleans Video Voices. She enjoys singing, dancing,
talking on the phone, and media. Sade is a great camera person and has an eye for
scenes. With her new media skills, she is now avideographer for her whole family. The
media skills that she has acquired have allowed her to be a videographer of her family.
Noella Anderson
Noella is a thirteen year old eighth grade Honors student at Holy Ghost Private School
and a Junior Mentor and Facilitator for New Orleans Video Voices. The quiet one out of
the girls, Noelle is a great technical person, and great at setting up picture perfect
interviews. She loves taking B-Role for the documentaries.
Contact Michele Burton-Oatis, Director of Community Collaboration, New Orleans Video Voices at michele@neworleansvideovoices.org.
On Saturday, TEDx Silicon Valley will gather some of the world’s leading thinkers and doers at Stanford University to discuss Innovations for Social Change. The audience will be composed of a diverse yet curated mix of thought leaders from the Silicon Valley area (estimated 150 attendees). It will be a stimulating day of presentations, discussions, entertainment and art that will spark new ideas and opportunities for all.
The event was sold out just 48 hours after they announced it! Watch it broadcast online…
More about TED Silicon Valley…
http://www.tedxsv.org/
The Institute for the Future recently hosted a conference on the Future of Video. Here is the video of my presentation.
Caricia Catalani from Institute for the Future on Vimeo.
Here are some highlights on this amazing conference by IFTF’s Mani Pande.
Highlights from Future of Video Conference
Here are some of the interesting ideas that were shared by some of the expert panelists at the conference:
In the morning we had a panel with Howard Rheingold, Research Fellow, IFTF and Mimi Ito from UC, Irvine where they talked about user generated videos. Howard, who is an expert on the use of video for communication and teaching, talked about vernacular or informal video that is being created by non-experts. He pointed out that YouTube is providing new ways of doing things with video. There are probably new cultures that are developing on YouTube. Young people are going to YouTube to learn about new things like “how to videos” rather than Wikipedia.
Howard was quick to point out that video is more time consuming. In text you don’t get authentic presence of the person, but video does that making it more performative.
Mimi Ito, Research Scientist, UC, Irvine, correctly pointed out that most of the media today is made by amateurs. Amateur videos are entering everyday production and circulating in the same streams as professional work.Ito who has studied Japanese youth said that camera phone was fostering new kinds of visual awareness among young people in Japan. Young people are paying attention to their environment because they carry cameras with them, and are always looking to capture everyday experiences with their peers. Ito also believes that to understand the future of video you need to understand the social context in which video is being created.
While discussing the new kinds of grammars and genres that are evolving, Robin Sloan, VP, Current TV, said that when Current TV asked viewers to make videos, most people were imitating journalist. It was a little bit of a disappointment. 90% were people acting as if they were on TV. Sloan believes that innovation is not flowing from people in their 20s. They are very risk averse. Instead you want to look at either side of bracket. Teenagers or older people.
Online performance artist Ze Frank pointed out that creativity and efficacy are not conjoint twins. What matters is how effective you are in conveying the message. Citing his own example, Ze said that advertisers gave him money because they liked being associated with this new powerful genre which makes people do stuff.
My colleague, Jess Hemerly, moderated a panel on authorship, appropriation and control with Alexander Cohen of UC, Berkeley and Paul Spinard, Author, the VJ Book. Jess made a wonderful video presentation, which can be found on this blog.
Hannah Eaves from Link TV and from Caricia Catalina UC, Berkeley, talked about the role of video in bringing about social change. Citing the Nirodh project in India where video was used to spread awareness on condoms, Catalina said that use of video has been highly effective in advocacy and intervention in public health. Hannah said that the strength of video is that it can cross language and literacy barriers and is effective in making people take action.
The Institute for the Future started a research project to capture, via video, ideas from futurists, media experts, and the public that explore and participate in the emerging culture of video communication and to foster a discussion about the future social, political, and cognitive impacts of visual media. Researchers within the Institute for the Future and experts in visual medias are investigating the transformative power of video.
Watch their interview with Caricia Catalani.
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