VideoChronic: Video Activism and Video Distribution in Indonesia (2009)
Filed under report | Tags: · activism, democracy, indonesia, media activism, politics, tactical media, video, video art
VideoChronic publication is the result of a collaborative research project charting how activists are engaging with video technologies in Indonesia, addressing some of the issues of technology-mediated social movements, and exploring the potential and limitations of online video distribution.
The past decade in Indonesia has seen a dramatic increase in the use of video as a social change tool by community, campaign and activist organisations. Access to the tools for producing video have become increasingly democratised over this period, and rapidly adopted. Since the fall of Suharto’s New Order regime, space has been opened up for a host of new media projects to emerge. Individuals and organisations dealing with issues such as the environment, human rights, queer and gender issues, cultural pluralism, militarism, poverty, labour rights, globalisation and more have embraced video as a tool to communicate with both their bases and new audiences.
What groups are currently active in producing social and environmental video in the archipelago? What are the histories of that work? How is it currently being distributed? How are activists thinking they might approach distribution in the future?
Key researchers: Ferdiansyah Thajib M.A. and Nuraini Juliastuti M.Sc.
Project Manager & Editor: Andrew Lowenthal
Publisher: KUNCI Cultural Studies Center and EngageMedia, Nov 2009
ISBN: 978-0-646-52000-1
140 pages
Licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-Alike 2.5 Australia
Daniel Domscheit-Berg: Inside WikiLeaks. Meine Zeit bei der gefährlichsten Website der Welt (2011) [German]
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, diplomacy, internet, media activism, military, politics, war, wikileaks
Die Enthüllungen von WikiLeaks halten die Welt in Atem. Doch wer steckt hinter der Organisation, die die Mächtigen fürchten macht und das Pentagon eine 120 Mann starke Task Force einberufen ließ? Wie sieht es aus in der Schaltzentrale von WikiLeaks und welche brisanten Papiere schlummern dort noch?
Daniel Domscheit-Berg nimmt uns mit ins Herz von WikiLeaks. Er hat die Enthüllungsplattform seit 2007 Seite an Seite mit Julian Assange aufgebaut. Der junge Deutsche ist weltweit der Mann, der neben dem schillernden und zunehmend umstrittenen Gründer den besten Einblick in das Whistleblower-Projekt hat. Seit Domscheit-Berg und andere Mitstreiter sich im Herbst 2010 aus dem Projekt zurückzogen, ist Julian Assange alleiniger Herrscher über dieses machtvolle Instrument.
Inside WikiLeaks ist ein packend geschriebener Enthüllungsreport voller unbekannter Fakten. Er erzählt die Geschichte von WikiLeaks, wie sie noch keiner gehört hat.
Written by Tina Klopp
Publisher: Econ Verlag, Ullstein Buchverlage, Berlin, 2011
ISBN 978-3-8437-0062-7
304 pages
PDF (EPUB; updated on 2012-8-5)
Comment (0)The Red Specter. Journal of Agitation and Enlightenment 1 (2010) [English/Spanish]
Filed under journal | Tags: · activism, art, art criticism, colonialism, commodity fetishism, communism, economy, left, market economy, money, politics
Published on the occassion of exhibition Critical Fetishes. Residues of General Economy at CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid, May – August 2010, curated by The Red Specter (Through its Commissariat of Public Enlightenment: Mariana Botey, Helena Chávez Mac Gregor and Cuauhtémoc Medina).
Editors of issue 1: Ekaterina Álvarez Romero and Cuauhtémoc Medina
English translations: Christopher Fraga, Lorna Scott Fox
Spanish translations: Manuel Hernández, Jaime Soler Frost
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