The Media is Dead, Long Live the Media!
May 1st-3rd - new media gathering on Raven's Ait Island.
HOW TO GET THERE
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Nirest station is Surbiton then 5 min walk to river, or kingston,15 min walk along river, if you are comeing from East/North London on the overground (only £3.40)
The imminent commercial collapse of mainstream media, and its replacement by PR-driven news, threatens the journalistic integrity and independence necessary for a free society. The next generation could be without the 4th Estate. And new media has not yet realized its potential to fill this space.
INTERESTING LINKS
End of Branding as core to our socierty
Good post from Fred Wilson about how brands are undermined by people2people networks and how these networks move into our pockets via mobile phones. The need for brands and the lowest denominator service they provide is vanishing. Music, News, TV and film, the digitalization of common goods is proving a far-reaching revolution in our society.
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/03/yelping-my-way-through-la.html
http://twitter.com/themediaisdying
http://techdirt.com/
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/22/why-advertising-is-failing-on-the-internet/
Old media and new media need to gather together, sharing skills, resources and experience to create the media of the future.
We invite:
Geeks, web designers and programmers
Traditional media people
Alt-media people
Media students
DIY culture practitioners
Indymedia people
Documentary filmmakers
Print journalists
Radio journalists
Citizen journalists
The conference will concentrate on the audio-visual side of media, with space for break-out groups for print, radio and web.
The space: an eco-conference centre on an island in the Thames 25 mins by train from central London. http://ravensait.org.uk
We have a large hall, a cinema room, and 3 conference rooms. There is basic crash space for 40 people over the weekend. The conference will be run on an “un-conference” format, and will be funded by contributions for the space and meals over the weekend.
The gathering is organised by visionOntv (http://visionon.tv) – an undercurrents project (http://undercurrents.org)
To book a place – please edit this wiki page.
Participants:
To add ideas for the conference, contribute to the wiki or contact gathering@visionon.tv
Please add Proposals for workshops
- User frendly open source tools?
- Practical video citizen’s journalism skills – make a 3 minute news/issue short in 4 hours (VOTV)
- Future of media in the digital age
- Using stills to make news reports in one hour without a camera (VOTV)
- Alternatives to youtube: a question of distribution
- Help! - creating help for website users, for video makers, for video distribution, for creating video distribution websites let's share the knowledge with appropriate ways of doing help files and print outs for workshops. Feck it! Let's write open source books on it! http://flossmanuals.net
- Funding, schmunding and getting bread to eat from online media (undercurrents)
- Creating a Video sharing site using Drupal. How to upload, transcode, import, export and best present your videos.
- Creating an open screeners database. Who do you contact when you want to do a tour of venues in UK or Europe. Bring your contacts and let's share.
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Networking London Video Activist (From experience people who go and film at a protest or other event do not necessarily have the time to edit the footage and vice versa. Setting up a network could allow people to cooperate on films, swap footage etc. This could also be the start for making a longer documentary about the G20, if there is enough interest.)
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Making the most of the psychological impact of your media
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www.mustart.org We put on interactive events that include everyone. Why not come to the next event or make your own.
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