24/7
- a DIY Video Summit, USC, Feb 8-10, 2008
Notes by Howard Besser
conference
program
| Howard's
photos
from meeting
Panel on State of Research
David Buckingham (UK)
- Background writings on user-created
(from Patty Zimmerman to Bordieu)
Michael Wesch (Kansas)
- Made video and put onto Youtube, and
through viral and connected RSS feeds, became #1
- Video Blog is disconcerting because
you donÕt know who youÕre talking to (GoffmanÕs idea of personal
presentation/negotiating identity)
- Youtube is super-public, but becomes
private confessional
- mediatedcultures.net
Eric Garland
- ÒYes We CanÓ video (made by Black-Eyed
Peas member) and shown just to a few friends
John Seeley Brown
- Changes in Epistimology
- Re-think John DeweyÕs Pragmatic
Technology
- Homo Sapiens to Homo Faber
- The word ÒamateurÓ comes from latin
for Òlove
The old distinction btwn amateur and professional
is no
longer valid, as many people become involved not just because of love,
but
because they have a game-plan to become a professional (American Idol). Is Òmaking moneyÓ or Òbeing recognized
w/I small communityÓ the goal for most of these people?
Panel on State
of the Art
Alexandra
Juhasz
ÒLearning from YouTubeÓ youtube videos
Sam Gregory-Witness Hub --
smart narrowcasting instead of broadcasting
Juan DavisÑKCET ÒWeb StoriesÓ Ð ÒSustaining
LAÓ Communities like ÒFallen
FruitÓ
Henry
Jenkins Ð YouTube is
convergence of older traditions -- fan-culture,
skate-culture+amateur-culture
Panel on The Intellectual
Property Dilemma
Fred von LohmannÑUser-Generated
Content/Participatory
Media
- quote on need to excerpt/quote from Jonathan Lethem, "The Ecstacy
of Influence", Harpers, Feb 2007
- DMCA chnged rules that apply to intermediaries--OSPs have
safe-harbors (except must obey notice-and-takedown) -- if you're
willing to be sued, you can reach an audience
- Sad Kermit video
- Youtube Video Identification Tool & other mechanized
fingerprinting detection
- DRM anti-circumvention -- Handbrake DVD ripping software
Yochai
- McCain Bomb Iran & YouTube version
- Jamie BoyleÕs new book (Copyright
Borrowing and Culture) deconstructs the layers of rights under ÒGeorge
Bush DonÕt Like (donÕt care about) Black PeopleÓ
- Fair Use Study in American Industry
Sept 12
Fred Graver -- Re-Mix America Project (Lessig
& Norman
Lear)
Panel on DIY Tools and Platforms
Angela Gyetvan (Revver)
- shared revenue models (incl
downstream), incl cc
Marc Davis (Yahoo social network guru)
- not only distribution &
consumption, but also PRODUCTION
- auto-tagging from GPS & other
areas (plus collaborative auto-organization of user-supplied tags, like
from FLICKR)
- TagMaps
- Built Re-Mixer (for SFFF)
Dean Jansen (Participatory Culture Foundation),
developing
Miro
- MiroÑdownloads, organizes, & plays
back video (organizing & curating tool) involving RSS feeds from
500 channels
- Like TivoÑautomatically downloads
things you might be interested in to your hard drive then deletes them
after youÕve seen them (unless you mark them ÒsaveÓ
- Works w/HD and bit-torrent
- Open source
- getmiro.com
Joi Ito (Creative Commons Board Chair,
entrapreneur)
HowardÕs notes to self
© films that I need to remember for Orphans
- Eric
FadenÕs "A
Fair(y) Use Tale"
- Negativland & mermaid
-
Show ÒThe Machine is Using USÓ to New Media class
we can cut-and-paste text btwn works and
applications
because underlying standard is ascii; when will we have underlying
standards
like this for video?
deep-linking and downloading are resisted by
content
industry
Flip-TVÑCan distrib onto various diff platforms
Kaltura (flash-based collab video editing system,
with edit
log tracking like Wikipedia)
Yahoo Live launched last nite (not only
asynchronous, but
also real-time)
2000 political activist net conference at
Tisch/Net-Time???
Ð
generic term?