Category:Audiovisual

Some Introductory Articles

The so called "digital revolution" at the end of the 20th century was often exclusively described as a technological revolution - it was going to bring consumers a new "digital" quality (CDs instead of LPs) and advanced productivity to almost every industry. Ten years after the web went mainstream a different picture evolves: consumers turn into producers, we blog about a participatory culture and citizen journalism and we share our media (recommended article: "We Are the Web" by Kevin Kelly, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech_pr.html).

In short: what was "Power to the people" in the '60 of the last century today is "We are the media" (watch this "Video Mash-up about the Vlogging movement": http://www.ourmedia.org/node/9237).

Some Basic Resources

This section, maintained by Valentin Spirik, will focus on the how-to and technical aspects of producing audiovisual content using the new P2P autonomous media infrastructure.

Our Media's Learning Center is a great place to start learning about podcasting and webcasting, at http://www.ourmedia.org/learning-center/open

This Open media projects list at ourmedia is a good starting point for exploring alternative/participatory media projects on the web: http://www.ourmedia.org/about/open-media-projects

(July 2006)

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