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 don’t know who you’re talking to (Goffman’s idea of personal presentation/negotiating identity)
Youtube is super-public, but becomes private confessional
mediatedcultures.net

Eric Garland

“Yes We Can” video (made by Black-Eyed Peas member) and shown just to a few friends

John Seeley Brown

Changes in Epistimology
Re-think John Dewey’s Pragmatic Technology
Homo Sapiens to Homo Faber
The word “amateur” comes from latin for “love

The old distinction btwn amateur and professional is no longer valid, as many people become involved not just because of love, but because they have a game-plan to become a professional (American Idol).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 “making money” or “being recognized w/I small community” the goal for most of these people?

Panel on State of the Art

Alexandra Juhasz “Learning from YouTube” youtube videos

Sam Gregory-Witness Hub -- smart narrowcasting instead of broadcasting

Juan Davis—KCET “Web Stories” – “Sustaining LA” Communities like “Fallen Fruit”

Henry Jenkins – YouTube is convergence of older traditions -- fan-culture, skate-culture+amateur-culture

Panel on The Intellectual Property Dilemma

Fred von Lohmann—User-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 Boyle’s new book (Copyright Borrowing and Culture) deconstructs the layers of rights under “George Bush Don’t Like (don’t care about) Black People”
Fair Use Study in American Industry Sept 12

Fred Graver -- Re-Mix America Project (Lessig & Norman Lear)

remixamerica.org
fred@fredgraver.com

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

Miro—downloads, organizes, & plays back video (organizing & curating tool) involving RSS feeds from 500 channels
Like Tivo—automatically downloads things you might be interested in to your hard drive then deletes them after you’ve seen them (unless you mark them “save”
Works w/HD and bit-torrent
Open source
getmiro.com

Joi Ito (Creative Commons Board Chair, entrapreneur)

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Howard’s notes to self

© films that I need to remember for Orphans

Eric Faden’s "A Fair(y) Use Tale"
Negativland & mermaid

Show “The Machine is Using US” 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-TV—Can 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??? – generic term?