Archived, Community Media
Developer: MIC Toi Rerehiko
MIC Toi Rerehiko will launch a Mobile Digital Storytelling Lab in 2008 with Digital Strategy Community Partnership support. MIC and its partners will stage workshops to empower people to tell a personal story using multimedia tools. Using teaching modules developed and proven internationally, MIC is working with partner organisations to reach diverse communities, offering access to training, skills and equipment. Participants combine their personal archives (photos, video footage, text, music and sound) to produce a 3-4 minute personal story. They are guided through computer tutorials enabling them to edit and present their own stories. Through the same process themed workshops can deal with relevant issues, and workshops can be staged as an integral part of diverse cultural events for targeted participant communities.
This community-based education programme is a key component of MIC's public programme in 2008 / 09, facilitating access, engagement and experience of digital technology and creating new media content reflecting diverse cultural narratives. Through MIC's interface with the public as a new media arts organisation, content developed with the community mobile storytelling lab can be screened or broadcast to invited audiences, archived and made available for public use at MIC's public venue, online, or communicated via mobile phones or other technology. This initiative builds capacity, mentors professional skills, encourages filmmaking and digital media creativity in diverse communities and brings their stories to wider audiences.
community media, print media design, Visual communication
Linda Jean Kenix
Linda Jean Kenix (previously Kensicki) received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001. Her dissertation, titled “Media construction of an elitist environmental movement: New frontiers for second level agenda setting and political activism,” was completed under the supervision of Dr. Maxwell McCombs, the co-creator of agenda setting theory. Upon the completion of her degree, she moved north to the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she spent four years braving the winters as an Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. In 2005, she moved to New Zealand to continue her career at the University of Canterbury.
Dr Kenix's research has traditionally focused on the representation of politically marginalized groups in mainstream and alternative media. Her recent work has broadened to examine how marginalized groups are utilizing various media as a potential tool for social change. Since receiving her Ph.D., she has published broadly in international, peer-reviewed academic journals and has presented her research at over 30 international conferences – winning ‘best paper’ awards four separate times. She was awarded two prestigious Erskine Fellowships involving placements as a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University in 2008 and the University of Cambridge in 2010.
She has ten years of professional media experience in different aspects of visual communication as a studio artist, graphic designer, art buyer and design assistant .
Areas of expertise: visual representations of marginalized groups in the media; analyzing the aesthetic of community media; print media design and layout.
community media, course designer, Digital Strategy, New Technology, TV
Helen Baxter
Helen Baxter is Managing Directrix of Mohawk Media, an international keynote speaker, and XMediaLab mentor. She reports on technology in the g33k show weekly, and is a judge in the NZ Yahoo!Xtra Digital Strategy Awards. Helen has been strategist and columnist for the Big Idea, a Teaching Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, lectured in Emerging Technologies in Screen Arts at Unitec, and Professional Practice in Digital Media at Natcoll.
She was the founding Editor of KnowledgeBoard.com, an award-winning Knowledge Management & Innovation community run by the European Commission. KnowledgeBoard was voted the 'Best on the Web KM Portal' by the Harvard Business Review (2002), and won 'Best User Experience' in the International Information Industry Awards (2003). Helen has also worked as an online community producer for a international web agency, and wrote 'All You Need to Know About the Internet' (Digital Cognition, 1997).
community media, Documentary, Film
Geraldene Peters
Geraldene Peters' research focuses on broadly on documentary media exploring the politics and ethnographic experience of identity and place across moving and still images within Aotearoa/New Zealand (and elsewhere). She is especially interested in how class and ethnicity are articulated and responded to through marginalised media forms, in particular domestic, community and arts-based media, completing a PhD about activist left documentary in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 2006.
Since undergraduate theatre and film study her work has also been characterised by an exploration of relationships between theory and practice informing her current pedagogical interests in modes of research-led practice. She has accumulated production experience since 1991 as a researcher, production manager and assistant editor across a range of documentary modes from small format community video to international films, as well as working with media collectives such as Indymedia and local social justice movements.
Her current research interests are in Media, Film and Documentary theory and history; research-led Documentary practices; Cultural Studies; Visual culture; Film, Media and Cultural Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand; Community and radical/alternative media practices.
community media, Design Theory, Digital Storytelling, DVD Production, Education, New media, Oral History
Dr. Alan Young
Alan Young received his PhD in Communication Design at RMIT University, Australia. He has worked as project manager/designer for a number of community based art and design projects. Most recently he produced a DVD, titled Equal Service, on Melbourne’s Homeless community for the Department of Justice, Victoria, and has had a series of digital films from the DVD Unreserved: Tales from the Explosives Reserve, accepted for the collection at the Australian Centre for Moving Image.
Alan is a Senior Lecturer in the Graphic Design Department at AUT University and as well as supervising postgraduate students, continues his own research, writing peer reviewed articles and presenting regularly at national and international conferences on design theory and digital storytelling. Alan has been peer reviewer for a number conferences and journals and is on the editorial board for Antipodes journal.
community media, International Comminucation, Social movement media
John Downing
John Downing served as sociology lecturer/professor at Greenwich University, London, 1968-1980; as visiting sociology professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1980-81; as professor of media studies, Hunter College, City University of New York, 1981-1990; as John T. Jones, Jr., Centennial Professor of Communication, University of Texas, Austin, 1990-2003; and as founding director of the Global Media Research Center, Southern Illinois University, 2004-2010. Over the fall semester, 2010, he will be a visiting professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, and will be a Fulbright Visiting Professor at Helsinki and Tampere Universities, Finland, over the spring semester of 2011.
John Downing's research publications have focused on social movement media; racism, ethnicity and media; global media; and Soviet bloc media during the build-up to the bloc's disintegration. His most recent work is the forthcoming Sage Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media, with 250 entries from nearly all regions of the planet. He is also a member of the executive editorial committee of the journal Global Media and Communication, and elected editor (2010-2013) of the International Communication Association journal Communication, Culture and Critique. He was elected Vice-President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research for the period 2008-2012.
Alternative media, community media, critical media literacy, independent media, Journalism studies, media analysis and criticism, media production pedagogy
Kevin Howley
Kevin Howley is Associate Professor of Media Studies at DePauw University. He is author of Community Media: People, Places, and Communication Technologies (2005) and editor of Understanding Community Media (2010) and Media Interventions (in progress). His work has appeared in Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, Social Movement Studies, Transformations, the Journal of Radio Studies and the International Journal of Cultural Studies.
Archived, Community Media
As a partnership between CoLab, AUT and DOC Lab/Documentary Edge Forum, a new DOC Lab was introduced for new media techniques and methods to documentary. The first event took place at AUT in February 2010.
In the 21st century as the borders between various media blur and break down, documentary content creators now need to embrace cross-media and 360 degree platforms. The DOC Lab 2010 became an incubator allowing attendees the opportunity to develop their projects by sharing ideas as well as through mentorship, feedback and interactive participation.
Facilitated by Wendy Levy of the Producer’s Institute, USA, feature mentors included Marc Boothe (B3 Media, UK), James Franklin (Pixeco, UK), Peter Worrall (3D Ltd, NZ), and CoLab’s Laurent Antonczak (MOTEC, ATZ 119, NZ).
http://www.colab.org.nz/node/377
http://www.documentaryedge.org.nz/forum/lab-2010.html
Anna Jackson wrote an article on DOC Lab for TAKE, the Screen Directors Guild of New Zealand's magazine. See this link:
http://www.colab.org.nz/node/476
Archived, Community Media
Luke Munn, a New Zealand artist with a sound and socially focused practice, was selected as the CoLab TBI’s Online Digital Resident for his project entitled The Big Room. The Big Room invites members of The Big Idea to contribute a recording of the room they work or live in which will be compiled into a web interface to form a fluctuating sonic space that is only possible through the online medium.
Luke’s work centres around re-activating, and re-presenting real world sound: site-specific performances and projects that often use the architecture of a space, objects from the audience, field recordings of the area, or historically or socially derived audio. As former Online Curator for Window, Auckland he’s curated dozens of webbased shows with international artists.
Please visit the TBI website for more information on the residency project and to contribute your recording.
Visit:
http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/colab-tbidigitalresidencyfor the project
Link to CoLab page with full residency info
http://www.colab.org.nz/node/633
images attached and all courtesy of the artist Luke Munn
Current, Community Media
DOC Lab and Doc Forum 2011
In association with CoLab
Documentary Edge will run the 2nd DOC Lab, an incubator for cross-media documentary projects, from 19-21 Feb 2011 at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in association with CoLab. Whether you are in drama or documentary, if you wish to develop digital media ideas across platforms then you should attend DOC Lab.
Up to 12 teams will be selected to attend the 3-day Lab. Wendy Levy of BAVC (The Producer’s Institute, USA) will return to facilitate DOC Lab. She will be joined by local and international mentors from diverse areas like story-telling, gaming, motion graphics and animation, social networking, virtual worlds, producing, 3G and mobile technology and film/TV making. Together, they will introduce, discuss, develop and work on diverse cross platforms with the selected teams. This is a significant opportunity for teams who recognize the urgency in developing new prototypes for content creation and delivery so as to fully maximize the potential of their projects as well as to compete internationally.
Visit the DOC Lab 2011 site for full information http://www.docnz.org.nz/forum/doclab-2011.html
See http://www.documentaryedge.org.nz/forum/sessions-2011.html for more information regarding the Documentary Edge Forum, also in association with CoLab.
