Sitting back in San Francisco, I’m taking a moment to reflect on the beginning stages of our VideoVoice project in New Orleans. Caricia and I facilitated the Train-the-Trainers weekend in which we organized the grass roots of NOLA VideoVoice. This includes (but is not limited to) hands-on-camera work and interviews, community public health discussions, basic film theory concepts, and concept models.
Hello, it’s been a while but I’m excited to say that Caricia and I are in New Orleans, LA and beginning our VideoVoice/New Orleans project. We’ve been walking around Central City - the community within Orleans Parish (aka New Orleans) - that we will be working with. Here are some pictures of the neighborhood:
The picture on the left is the parking lot mural at the Ashe Cultural Center and on the right is Caricia on Camp Street (just south of Central City).
Check out these new research articles, particularly the first one, for some very helpful info about the way that digital structures, policies, and culture impact its use and its utility for advancing public health and wellbeing.
Structures of Participation in Digital Culture. A new SSRC edited volume on culture, technology, and power in the digital era. The book comes out of the Culture, Creativity, and Information Technology program, which focused on changing forms of cultural agency and the changing roles of cultural institutions. Full text available free online (and for sale!)
Toward a Federal Data Agenda For Communications Policymaking. New expanded and updated version available (CommLaw Conspectus, v.16). The wild premise: public policy should be made with publicly-available data. Here’s why the communications field fails that simple standard.
The Bellagio Global Dialogues on Intellectual Property, or, How to Build an International Policy Research Field. A report on Rockefeller Foundation IP Policy Initiatives, 2001-2006.
On Tuesday, February 19th, Sam Gregory, Program Director for WITNESS, will be participating in a panel discussion on the integral role arts and media play in addressing the most pressing human rights abuses.
Moderated by NBC’s “Today Show” anchor and “Dateline” host, Ann Curry, the panel will discuss the impact activist journalists, filmmakers, writers and artists have had in ending human rights abuses and how we can refocus our energy to address the present crisis in Sudan.
Please come with your questions, observations and ideas to contribute to this important discussion.
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I just undertook a big big thing: a literature review of all the articles on participatory video for health. This will be most interesting to academic researchers, particularly those that practice community-based and action-oriented approaches to research. I will tell you about how I selected and excluded articles and what I found out about participatory video. In future posts, I will also talk about my findings on photovoice, a participatory approach to research and photography. As you will see, I did a lot of looking and at the end of the day, only came up with 3 scholarly articles on this topic. So, good news for new research ideas and bad news for people needing research now!
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