This is the online site of the film collective Kino Fist. We run a more-or-less monthly film screening at the E:vent Gallery in Bethnal Green, London. We aim to show films that are both politically and aesthetically interesting and yet rarely screened. We also aim to reinstate the centrality of both the B-movie and the [...]
The digital terrain is at once a culmination and a beginning for the tradition of media praxis.
On the net, time, place, and media collide, reformat, are archived, become one(s) (and zeros). Access expands; duration and attention decrease, creating new viewing practices and ethics.
Many of the binaries that structure earlier moments in this history become undone: [...]
Learning from YouTube
This YouTube channel is about the Pitzer College Media Studies class,
Learning From YouTube, held in, on, and about YouTube in Fall, 2007: all research, assignments and classes occurred on and about the site.
In my Tour #4, The Vernacular, Visual and the Vlog, I propose that there are two dominant forms of video YouTube: the vlog, characterized by its poor quality and vox populi, and the corporate video, easily identifiable because it is all the vlog is not: high quality production values referring to corporate culture. My students [...]
(After “WE: Variant of a Manifesto,” Dziga Vertov, 1922) I call myself MP:me (Media Praxis : Alexandra Juhasz)—as opposed to “cinematographer,” one of a herd of machomen doing rather well peddling slick clean wares. I see no connection between true femi-digi-praxis (the integration of media theory, digital practice, and feminist politics in an historical [...]
Media Praxis
Alexandra Juhasz’s blog about the integration of media theory, practice and politics:
“I am committed to “Media Praxis”: thinking about and making lively, intelligent, opinionated, democratic media. Media that looks to history, theory and politics as well as real people’s needs and experiences. I believe that making and seeing such work feeds people, and the [...]
Artery
Since the last World AIDS DAY, we’ve entered the Third Millenium and are on the brink of the third decade of the AIDS epidemic. The irony is that it’s clearer than ever that there are numerous AIDS epidemics, not just one. For many people with HIV/AIDS in the developed world, the situation has improved. [...]
“On the surface, it seems that much contemporary techno-cultural practice
operates in the spirit of Benjamin’s essay, opposing the simplistic separation of
theory and activism. Moreover, the separation of theorist and activist (and we might add ‘artist’
- although clearly there are dif?culties with the term) makes no sense in an
overall practice of cultural production that takes account [...]
“Following Benjamin’s criticism, one has to admit that this type of online publishing must also be included as part of the history of Literature, if one expects [...]
In his “Constituents of a theory of the Media,” in The Consciousness Industry (1974), Hans Magnus Enzenberger describes a new media (”satellites, color television, cable relay television, casetters, videotape, videtape recorders, video-phones, stereophony, laser techniques, electrostatic repredocution processes, electronic high-speed printing, composing and learning machines, microfiches with electronic access, printing by radio, time-sharing computers, data [...]
Promoting media excellence, ethics, diversity, and accountability in the interests of peace, justice and social responsibility.
Mission: Media Alliance is a 32 year-old media resource and advocacy center for media workers, non-profit organizations, and social justice activists. Our mission is excellence, ethics, diversity, and accountability in all aspects of the media in the interests of peace, [...]
For many people who live in the developed world use of video cameras, VCR’s, TV’s, and computers is a daily occurrence. But when one speaks with indigenous peoples about access to this technology they say it is only a dream. For centuries outsiders have represented indigenous people and their cultures. Recently there has been an [...]
• What We Do
Based in Seattle since 2002, Reclaim the Media conducts grassroots organizing for social change through media justice. We are dedicated to pursuing a more just society by transforming our media system and expanding the communications rights of ordinary people through grassroots organizing, education, networking and advocacy. We envision an authentic, just democracy [...]
This worldmap seeks to graphically display the location of any alternative, radical, citizen, participatory, community (etc.) media project in the world. The purpose of this work is to create an interactive chart of the world of alternative media.
CHECK OVER HERE!
I HAVE NEW INFORMATION!
This is from a Myspace bulletin.
I’m embarrassed of my subscribers… it seems nobody here understands… my sense of humor. It’s all completely sarcastic. Take it as entertainment.
http://www.myspace.com/buttonstheclown
(stalk the crap outta me!)
http://www.twitter.com/tyleroakley
(I update way too often, follow me all day long)
http://www.youtube.com/5awesomegays
(I update every Friday with a new video)
http://www.stickam.com/tyleroakley
(Chat live with me [...]
A daily TV/radio news program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, airing on over 700 stations, pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the U.S.
WHY INDEPENDENT MEDIA ?
For true democracy to work, people need easy access to independent, diverse sources of news and information.
But the last two decades have seen unprecedented corporate media consolidation. [...]
Who We Are
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all.
Our supporters are outraged by human rights abuses but inspired by hope for a better world - so we work to improve human rights through campaigning and international solidarity.
We have more than 2.2 million members and subscribers [...]
Our mission is to empower leaders of the next generation. Treaties are negotiated by governments. Peace is made by people. Seeds of Peace is doing what no government can. It is sowing the seeds of peace among the next generation of leaders. It is educating them to develop empathy, respect and confidence. It is equipping [...]
three things about this site
04.25.02
I’m not as angry as you think. Yes, racism angers me. But I’m not here sitting in front of the computer, hating whitey and plotting revolution. This is just a subject that has always interested me — pointing out racism and noting any and all appearances of Asians [...]
AN ALTERNATIVE MEDIUM ON ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
The “Alternative Media Global Project (AMPG)” is a multilingual, global collaborative Internet site devoted to recording research on and connections with alternative, radical, citizens, Community, independent, militant, autonomous, media throughout the world. This project was launched in october 2007 as an initiative of Benjamin Ferron, RE Davis and Clemencia Rodriguez. [...]
My course with a digital-presence, Media Praxis—one that focuses upon the historical, ethical and theoretical underpinnings of revolutionary media practices while attempting to find their legacy on-line—has left me feeling a bit discombobulated: what with my uncharacteristic fervor about this upcoming election (I’m hosting a Moveon Obama Party this weekend), and my ongoing media “work” [...]
Why we started
* 1. We noticed that beneath our many human desires for career, family, achievement, and more, we all have one shared, powerful longing for a healed and peaceful world. But it seems impossible.
* 2. We realized that global media offers a powerful way to tell a different story about what’s possible for impossible [...]