LISTEN UP!
Listen Up! is a youth media network that connects
young video producers and their allies to resources,
support, and projects in order to develop the field and
achieve an authentic youth voice in the mass
media.
MAKING WAVES: Stories of Participatory
Communication for Social Change
Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, this report
"gathers a collection of fifty case stories, brief
descriptions of experiences of communication for social
change that were selected for their participatory
approaches." (PDF version available)
CENTER FOR DIGITAL
STORYTELLING
The Center for Digital Storytelling assists
people of all ages in using the tools of digital media to
craft, record, share, and value the stories of individuals
and communities, in ways that improve all our lives.
NEW ROUTES TO COMMUNITY HEALTH: IMMIGRANT
POPULATIONS
The mission of New Routes to Community Health,
anchored in community partnerships, is to increase the
health of new immigrants to the United States using local
media.
CITY OF ASBURY PARK : OFFICIAL SITE
Explore the "official" web site for Asbury Park
PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED, by Paulo
Freire
Widely influential Brazilian thinker, educator,
and social activist who proposed a revolutionary model for
a transformative pedagogy. (The book is widely available at
retailers)
TINY SCREEN GETS FESTIVAL OF ITS
OWN
Article on growing phenomenon cell-phone
video, iPod video, personal on-line video : tools which
could be employed to enhance the reach and scope of public
discourse in Asbury Park
GRAFFITTI HACKERS: (from WIRED magazine)
Text-message projectors. Paintball printers.
Wall-crawling robots. The new crew of tech taggers makes a
name for itself.
STREET LEVEL VIDEO : BLOCK
PARTY:
Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, founder of
Street-Level Video (S-L.V.), organized what was a
spectacular collaboration, a one-day, video-installation
block party called Tele-Vecindario
STREET LEVEL VIDEO:
Using video production, computer art and
the Internet, Street-Level's young people address community
issues, access advanced communication technology and gain
inclusion in our information-based
society.
MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK :
"Manhattan Neighborhood Network is
responsible for administering the Public Access cable
television services in Manhattan. Our purpose is to ensure
the ability of Manhattan residents to exercise their First
Amendment rights through the medium of cable television and
to create opportunities for mutual communication,
education, artistic expression and other noncommercial uses
of video facilities on an open, uncensored and equitable
basis.".
SHAREIDEAS.ORG :
Mobile Knowledge for Social Change :
ShareIdeas.org is an online community and a wiki for
sharing ideas on how to use mobile communications for
social and environmental benefits.
MEDIA THAT MATTERS FILM
FESTIVAL:
Sustainability, Justice, Civic Engagement :
these topics and more are tackled by the Media That Matters
Film Festival. Launching June 1st, 2005, the Festival
brings high-impact shorts and Take Action tools to
audiences around the country.
