The Media is Dead, Long Live the Media!
May 1st-3rd - media gathering on Raven's Ait Island.
HOW TO GET THERE
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Nearest station is Surbiton, then 5 min walk to river, or Kingston,15 min walk along river.
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.
Practicalities
Please try and arrive Friday evening, the ferry will be running from 5.00 then runs every 30 min depending on demand.
We have 3 dorms with 6 beds each, a large hall and various nooks and crannies for crash space, please bring a sleeping bag. We have the run of a large industrial kitchen with basic food; please bring bulk food to share if you can.
Food: suggested donation of £5 a day to cover costs and a donation to the space would be nice. The will be wifi and power provided. This is a DIY gathering so come and make the most of it, we finallise the schedule Saturday morning.
Friday 5-12
- film screenings
- social time
Saturday all day workshops
- public film screening in evening
Sunday till 5 workshops (then social time)
Monday would be nice for a few people to stay to clear up and tat down.
The will be a feisty café running with cabaret in the garden during the gathering.
http://www.myspace.com/cafecairo
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:
- HamishCampbell - http://hamishcampbell.com
- Richard Hering - http://richardhering.com
- James Norris - Nitro Mobile / Nitro Ventures
- Dave Tinham
- James Skinner hoboinaforest@hotmail.com
- Pano Kroko
- Jonathan Bahan - jonbahan@googlemail.com
- Neil Fairbrother - CEO pod3.tv - neil@pod3.tv http://pod3.tv - TV content for the home, office and pocket
- Teresa Gomes - ducArte, ducarte@hotmail.co.uk
- T Troughton
- Mara (Indymedia)
- Marina Watson Pelaez (City University) wpmarina@hotmail.com
- Shaun from Reel News (http://reelnews.co.uk)
- Frazer Kirkman
- debbie outerglobe outerglobe@yahoo.co.uk
- Olga Martinez olga.martinez@ntdtv.com
- Ed Whyman edwhyman@gmail.com
- d. Murphy, Undercurrents d@undercurrents.org
- sally coffey sallycoffey@hotmail.com
- mickfuz - http://clearerchannel.org - http://transmission.cc
- Dean Fankhauser (just sunday from CS)
- Asia Wieloch
- Steve Lamb - Twitter, blog
- Sarah Blow - Twitter, blog
- Tolga Ors http://www.tolgaors.net - http://www.youtube.com/user/ourhumanrights
26. Raquel Cruz queucruz@hotmail.com
27. tombraider99
28. Will Golding - willwill_willwill@hotmail.com
29. Joanna Aniel Bidar jabidar@gmail.com
To add ideas for the conference, contribute to the wiki or contact gathering@visionon.tv
Please add Proposals for workshops
- User-friendly open source tools? - eg open source transcoding tool which is simple to use
- Practical video citizen’s journalism skills – make a 3 minute news/issue short in 4 hours (VOTV)
- The 6 things needed for open video to make social change (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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How not to do it * Why repetition works * Why repetition works * How to influence "the stupid" without comprimise on matters of greater good :-).
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Digital anarchism - Is the fight against internet regulation and copyright the most important activist issue?
