From patrice at xs4all.nl  Wed Oct  1 19:49:31 2008
From: patrice at xs4all.nl (Patrice Riemens)
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 19:49:31 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: <videovortex> Kashmir's mobile phone chroniclers (fwd from
	reader-list)
Message-ID: <7400.86.91.173.154.1222883371.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl>


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Subject: [Reader-list] Kashmir's mobile phone chroniclers
From:    Shivam Vij ????? ???? <mail at shivamvij.com>
Date:    Wed, October 1, 2008 15:39
To:      "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
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Dear friends,

This is the sort of story that really gives you a sense of the passion
and fervour that goes in the making of an endless freedom struggle in
Kashmir. Thought this might be of interest to members of this list as
it is a list about "media and the city". These protests, their
recording an uploading on YouTube, are very ordinary everyday events
in Srinagar. Violence and resistance have become acts that are
remarkable but not surprising, they form part of the everyday
banalities of living in Srinagar. Srinagar is perhaps the most
interesting city in India today. It is not as touristy as, say
Pahalgam, It is a city with great character, where the people, their
pain, the expression on their faces, will be etched in your memory
more than the size of the Dal lake. If you haven't been to Srinagar,
you have seen neither heaven nor hell. In these online videos captured
by Kashmiri youth, some of that is indeed reflected. Not even a per
cent of this is reflected in the Indian media.

best
shivam



Kashmir's mobile phone chroniclers

By Soutik Biswas
BBC News, Srinagar

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7618092.stm

Minutes after 35-year-old Javed Amir Mir was shot in the head by
security forces in Srinagar, capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, a
young boy recorded his death on his mobile phone camera.

The shaky and grainy clip shows a blood splattered face lying on the
road. You can hear the wailing women and the screaming men in the
background

Across the city, 25-year-old Imran Ahmed Wani's death was also
recorded on mobile phones by friends rushing him to hospital after he
was shot during a demonstration.

In fact, Mr Wani's last days unspool effortlessly on pictures which
can be seen on the mobiles of his friends - in one he is smiling at
the camera, 10 days before his death; in another, life is slowly
ebbing out of him as he lies, legs akimbo, in a ambulance racing to
get him to the hospital.

"We have all these pictures on our phones. His memories live and move
with us," says his friend and mass communications student, Sheikh
Suhail, 24.



'Interesting footage'


As the mainly Muslim Kashmir valley erupted into protests last month
after a row over transfer of land in the region snowballed into a
movement for freedom from India, armies of mobile-phone toting
youngsters began trawling the city to record the events.

Pro-freedom protests in Srinagar
A row over land has snowballed into a nationalist upsurge

The images and recordings of those momentous events have been swapped
between friends, or put up on popular video sharing sites.

One of those, YouTube, spits out nearly 250 results when a search is
done for "Srinagar protest" and many of these clips have been put up
by youngsters from the valley.

There are now mobile phone recordings being swapped around which have
reached almost cult status.

A pro-freedom procession, security forces thrashing children playing
in a city park, a friend or a neighbour shot down during a protest, a
funeral procession.

In a way, the images and clips comprise an uneven chronicle of the
troubled life and times in the valley by these "citizen journalists"
of Kashmir.

"This is a new trend in Kashmir. There are a lot of young people
moving around the city with such mobile phone recordings," says Amjad
Mir of Sen TV, a local news and current affairs channel.

In the restive Batamaloo area in Srinagar, a 29-year-old man, who owns
a small mobile phone shop in the city, says he goes out every other
day with his phone in search of "interesting footage".

"This is the first time ordinary people like us are coming out with
our phones and shooting. This is the only way we can show to the world
what is happening here," says the young man, who prefers to be
unnamed.



'History in making'

During a recent curfew in the valley, he recorded people in his
neighbourhood collecting several thousand bottles of drinking water to
supply a local hospital which had run out.

The Batamaloo man shows me some of his other clips on the phone -
crowds gathering for a demonstration, tyres burning on the streets,
troops chasing crowds. A friend, he says, has clips of a man shot down
by troops on his cheap Chinese mobile phone.

His favourite is a nine-minute recording of a protest demonstration
that he shot on his favourite Nokia phone from a flyover overlooking
the road.

"I have never seen so many people in my life as that day. It was a
big, peaceful demonstration. And I just kept recording," he says.


Chasing events on mobile phones have now become an obsessive hobby
with these young men - they charge their phones regularly every night
and hit the road next morning looking for some action.

A young journalist says the mobile phone chroniclers are usually
internet-savvy students, who shoot clips and upload them on the
internet.

"I want to preserve these memories. They are history in the making,"  
he says.


His favourite clip: local boys demolishing an 18-year-old bunker of
Indian troops in his neighbourhood during the recent agitation.

The Kashmir conflict now seems to have become fully digitalised.
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Thu Oct  2 10:05:58 2008
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:05:58 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> mobatalk is like a video twitter
Message-ID: <343694FC-D4DC-4E38-80C8-2127841827C1@xs4all.nl>

http://mashable.com/2008/10/01/mobatalk/


From sethkeen at internode.on.net  Thu Oct  2 12:18:05 2008
From: sethkeen at internode.on.net (Seth Keen)
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:18:05 +1000
Subject: <videovortex> =?windows-1252?q?XMedia_Lab_=28Melbourne=29_-_=93DI?=
 =?windows-1252?q?Y_TV=94=3A_Video=2C_UGC=2C_Mobile_and_IP_TV_content_and_?=
 =?windows-1252?q?services=2E?=
Message-ID: <2D2E1AA4-0933-45B0-8BBA-48A8F93FEE56@internode.on.net>

The commercially orientated XMedia Lab held a conference in  
(Melbourne) in August on ?DIY TV?: Video, UGC, Mobile and IP TV  
content and services. http://www.xmedialab.com/drupal/?q=node/16 The  
key notes from international guests are available on video http://www.adikted.tv/tech/x-media-lab/show/315588564/

The focus tended to be mainly around online video with some consistent  
themes emerging across the keynotes. User generated content featured  
in most of the presentations along with the objective to attach  
advertising to video in as many ways as possible. Also, almost every  
speaker saw YouTube as being a centralised  repository of video that  
cannot be matched. Therefore strategies included setting up publishing  
mechanisms that distribute video content out to as many major  
platforms as possible with the idea of trying to pick up return traffic.

There is a lot of funding being put towards elaborate online video  
players and social viewing platforms. My notes on these on my blog:

http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/2008/08/05/abc-multiplatform/ (ABC iview  
player)
http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/2008/08/04/american-fim-institute/
The Kangaroo Project in the UK - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_(video_on_demand)
http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/2008/08/05/view2together/

best
Seth Keen
seth.keen at rmit.edu.au
http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/
http://videodefunct.net/




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From sabine at networkcultures.org  Thu Oct  9 08:05:34 2008
From: sabine at networkcultures.org (Sabine Niederer)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:05:34 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> Video Vortex INC Reader #4 out now
Message-ID: <8C1FE839-A833-4823-9188-8200B64206A6@networkcultures.org>

The Institute of Network Cultures proudly presents its fourth reader:
Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer (eds.), Video Vortex Reader:  
Responses to YouTube, Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2008.  
ISBN: 978-90-78146-05-6.

To be launched on Friday October 10, 2008, at Video Vortex 3 in  
Ankara!! http://std.comd.bilkent.edu.tr/videovortex/

The Video Vortex Reader is the first collection of critical texts to  
deal with the rapidly emerging world of online video ? from its  
explosive rise in 2005 with YouTube, to its future as a significant  
form of personal media. After years of talk about digital convergence  
and crossmedia platforms we now witness the merger of the Internet and  
television at a pace no-one predicted. These contributions from  
scholars, artists and curators evolved from the first two Video Vortex  
conferences in Brussels and Amsterdam in 2007 which focused on  
responses to YouTube, and address key issues around independent  
production and distribution of online video content. What does this  
new distribution platform mean for artists and activists? What are the  
alternatives?

Contributors:
Tilman Baumg?rtel, Jean Burgess, Dominick Chen, Sarah Cook, Sean  
Cubitt, Stefaan Decostere, Thomas Elsaesser, David Garcia, Alexandra  
Juhasz, Nelli Kambouri and Pavlos Hatzopoulos, Minke Kampman, Seth  
Keen, Sarah K?senne, Marsha Kinder, Patricia Lange, Elizabeth Losh,  
Geert Lovink, Andrew Lowenthal, Lev Manovich, Adrian Miles, Matthew  
Mitchem, Sabine Niederer, Ana Peraica, Birgit Richard, Keith Sanborn,  
Florian Schneider, Tom Sherman, Jan Simons, Thomas Thiel, Vera  
Tollmann, Andreas Treske, Peter Westenberg.

Colophon:
Editors: Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer. Editorial Assistance:  
Marije van Eck and Margreet Riphagen. Copy Editing: Darshana  
Jayemanne. Design: Katja van Stiphout. Printer: Veenman Drukkers,  
Rotterdam. Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam.  
Supported by: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA)/School of  
Design and Communication (IAM), and XS4ALL.

More information: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publications/inc-readers/videovortex/
Download a pdf at: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/files/2008/10/vv_reader_small.pdf
Order a copy at: books at networkcultures.org




From sethkeen at internode.on.net  Wed Oct 15 12:41:37 2008
From: sethkeen at internode.on.net (Seth Keen)
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:41:37 +1100
Subject: <videovortex> antisocial notworking
Message-ID: <6D9CAC8D-781E-4AD1-8C62-D60D6F4D4E4D@internode.on.net>

http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1282

http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/projects/2008/antisocial/index.php#

antisocial notworking is a repository of projects that explore the  
pseudo-agency of online social platforms. It takes a number of recent  
software projects as its inspiration to reflect upon the fashion for  
'participation' with the arts sector and culture in general. The  
concern is how the Internet is increasingly charactised as a  
'platform' (or collective machine) for 'social' uses, but to question  
what is meant by the term social in such descriptions. Although social  
networking platforms rely on user-generated content, what is the  
nature of this participation? What alternatives (or antitheses) can be  
identified?


best
Seth Keen
seth.keen at rmit.edu.au
http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/
http://videodefunct.net/




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From geert at xs4all.nl  Thu Oct 16 16:47:44 2008
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:47:44 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> Joe the Plumber on YouTube
References: <mailman.20558.1224167920.4374.lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org>
Message-ID: <F496041B-73EB-4A33-9ABE-0213A2530169@xs4all.nl>

> From: "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Joe the Plumber, $250k+ business owner,	as average
> 	American?
> To: LBO Talk <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>
> About this new "Joe the Plumber" crap:
>
> I'm very interested in the specific details of a) whether Joe the  
> Plumber works "10 to 12 hours per day [sic]," b) as "a plumber," and  
> c) because of this, in the current economy, can buy a business worth  
> OVER a quarter of a million dollars.
> I mean, stranger things have happened. Palin has a shot at being VP,  
> for ex. McCain congratulated the man on TV during the debate for  
> being rich. If he is rich, and is a plumber, then he is not "Joe  
> Sixpack," but a rich guy, and not your typical American, and in an  
> odd occupation to be that wealthy, at that.
> Joe was tracked down by Katie Couric here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umw_4sGMrr0
> Seems basically like a Freeper or someone who already has decided  
> for McCain, facts be damned, lots of willful ignorance, insisting he  
> can't tell where Obama stands even on things Obama has clearly  
> delineated.
>
> -B.





From sethkeen at internode.on.net  Fri Oct 17 11:47:08 2008
From: sethkeen at internode.on.net (Seth Keen)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:47:08 +1100
Subject: <videovortex> Video Vernacular video - Howard Rheingold
Message-ID: <E6433A84-0555-461B-ABE2-D7CBF5220177@internode.on.net>

http://rheingold.com/ - Howard Rheingold has made a video clip on the  
topic Video Vernacular in relation to "education and culture"

http://vlog.rheingold.com

Clunky, and I was thinking of the M. Wesch video influence here...as  
in video for education purposes and sure enough it is referenced in  
this clip...

best
Seth Keen
seth.keen at rmit.edu.au
http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/
http://videodefunct.net/




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From sethkeen at internode.on.net  Fri Oct 17 11:49:55 2008
From: sethkeen at internode.on.net (Seth Keen)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:49:55 +1100
Subject: <videovortex> Metadata working group [online video]
Message-ID: <73BE9BD5-B2D8-4C48-89C7-C60AC76E27D9@internode.on.net>

Caught up with http://stillopen.anat.org.au/the-facilitators Andy  
Nicholson from Engage Media today and learnt about their http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/Main_Page 
  Transmission online video http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/Metadata_working_group 
  metadata working group.

 From the transmission wiki: A metadata standard for online video will  
ensure a common definitions for basic information such as title, date,  
author and language and (free) tags. This standard is to be used in  
video upload forms and video feeds of data coming from each  
participating site. The standard will allow creation of search and  
importation tools for (open source) Content Management Systems (CMS)  
like Drupal, Wordpress, Plone/Plumi etc to easily locate video data in  
other video databases that use the standard.


best
Seth Keen
seth.keen at rmit.edu.au
http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/
http://videodefunct.net/




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From JOomen at beeldengeluid.nl  Fri Oct 17 12:02:01 2008
From: JOomen at beeldengeluid.nl (Johan Oomen)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:02:01 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> Metadata working group [online video]
In-Reply-To: <73BE9BD5-B2D8-4C48-89C7-C60AC76E27D9@internode.on.net>
Message-ID: <4D7CDD9C9C44A74CA80DD89EDA86D4AFFD1557@s163-bems01.ka.beeldengeluid.nl>

Good afternoon,
 
I can recommend comparing the TX metadata standard with two other recent
lightweight metadata standardisation initiatives, notably regarding
their definition of metadata elements:
 
EBU Core
http://www.ebu.ch/metadata/documentation/EBUCore/tec_doc_t3293_2008_Fina
lDraft.pdf
 
PB Core
http://www.pbcore.org/index.html
 
Bot of them are built on the foundation of the Dublin Core (ISO 15836),
an international standard for resource discovery
(http://dublincore.org), widely used in the cultural heritage domain.
 
Best wishes,
Johan Oomen
Head of R&D
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
http://tinyurl.com/beeldengeluid

________________________________

Van: videovortex-bounces at listcultures.org
[mailto:videovortex-bounces at listcultures.org] Namens Seth Keen
Verzonden: vrijdag 17 oktober 2008 11:50
Aan: videovortex at listcultures.org
Onderwerp: <videovortex> Metadata working group [online video]


Caught up with http://stillopen.anat.org.au/the-facilitators Andy
Nicholson from Engage Media today and learnt about their
http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/Main_Page Transmission online
video http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/Metadata_working_group
metadata working group.

>From the transmission wiki: A metadata standard for online video will
ensure a common definitions for basic information such as title, date,
author and language and (free) tags. This standard is to be used in
video upload forms and video feeds of data coming from each
participating site. The standard will allow creation of search and
importation tools for (open source) Content Management Systems (CMS)
like Drupal, Wordpress, Plone/Plumi etc to easily locate video data in
other video databases that use the standard.



best
Seth Keen
seth.keen at rmit.edu.au
http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/
http://videodefunct.net/




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From sarahbxl at gmail.com  Wed Oct 22 12:27:54 2008
From: sarahbxl at gmail.com (Sarah Kesenne)
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:27:54 +0200
Subject: <videovortex> Fwd: Rouch on the future of visual anthropology
In-Reply-To: <C524BF09.7064%an.van.dienderen@telenet.be>
References: <C524BF09.7064%an.van.dienderen@telenet.be>
Message-ID: <9237c41c0810220327p3ac164edq1afffbfbdfab2891@mail.gmail.com>

Maybe my presentation at the Video vortex conference in Ankara on recording
rituals can be considered an answer to this statement of Jean Rouch..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvyXCpzpJJs
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From michael at michaelverdi.com  Wed Oct 22 15:31:38 2008
From: michael at michaelverdi.com (Michael Verdi)
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:31:38 -0500
Subject: <videovortex> Fwd: Rouch on the future of visual anthropology
In-Reply-To: <9237c41c0810220327p3ac164edq1afffbfbdfab2891@mail.gmail.com>
References: <C524BF09.7064%an.van.dienderen@telenet.be>
	<9237c41c0810220327p3ac164edq1afffbfbdfab2891@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <94b4a6520810220631m38e2f544t77b46c857a6ef614@mail.gmail.com>

Interesting. His view, though informed by a lifetime of work, seems so
out of touch with the current reality - the reality of the world of my
daughters (and everyone their age). These tools are no longer ones
that change what we do, they change who we are.

- Michael

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Sarah Kesenne <sarahbxl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe my presentation at the Video vortex conference in Ankara on recording
> rituals can be considered an answer to this statement of Jean Rouch..
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvyXCpzpJJs
>
>
>
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From geert at xs4all.nl  Mon Oct 27 09:26:10 2008
From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:26:10 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> social psychology goes youtube (good or bad sign?)
Message-ID: <EA7249D0-F428-4515-95CD-E624F9DF959C@xs4all.nl>

Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:37:54 +0800
From: "Dominic Yeo" <skyrock at gmail.com>
Subject: [Air-L] Personality & YouTube Survey
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org

Dear everyone,

I'm currently doing a study on the role of personality in the use of
YouTube. The survey does not ask for any personally identifiable
information and has been approved by the social and developmental
psychology ethics committee at Cambridge University. It takes 10-15
minutes to complete. The only requirement is participants must have
used YouTube in some form or another. I would greatly appreciate your
assistance in taking some time in participating and publicizing the
survey.

http://camsocialscience.qualtrics.com//SE/?SID=SV_54GsO0wJ5NZxZOc&SVID=Prod

Thanks!

Dominic Yeo
PhD Student (Social Psychology)
University of Cambridge


From sabine at networkcultures.org  Wed Oct 29 13:15:24 2008
From: sabine at networkcultures.org (Sabine Niederer)
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:15:24 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> political video barometer
Message-ID: <5587F5D5-24A0-415B-9D0A-1BFEEAFF1F64@networkcultures.org>

hi all,
check out this political video barometer by morningside analytics:
http://www.shiftingthedebate.com/shifting/videobarometer.html
ciao, sabine



From sabine at networkcultures.org  Wed Oct 29 13:35:49 2008
From: sabine at networkcultures.org (Sabine Niederer)
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:35:49 +0100
Subject: <videovortex> video column + bonus
Message-ID: <07FCAAC0-FC81-421C-9A1E-062D8DDC6C6A@networkcultures.org>

i heart photograph now has a weekly video column by michael b?hler-rose.
the first one features youtube videos by constant dullaart,  ben  
coonley, pash*, julien levesque, ginger anyhow, seecoy, and harm van  
den dorpel.
http://iheartphotograph.blogspot.com/2008/10/video-youtube.html

and a nice bonus video (thanks for the link, auke): http://www.gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle.com/20y.html
ciao, sabine