Democracy

PV Sateesh Interview – participatory video pioneer . Visit his orgs site: www.ddsindia.com

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Michael Albert gives an introduction to an alternative economic structure to capitalism.

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I spoke with Professor Henry Jenkins of the Masschusetts Institute of Technology’s Comparative Media Studies Program. We talked about the concepts of participatory cultures and remix cultural forms, and how these concepts can be used to change education. For more information see:

http://cms.mit.edu/

Professor Jenkins’ blog can be accessed at:

http://www.henryjenkins.org/

Please note that this is a research site and that comments posted to the site may be used in research. For more information about the study and how posted comments are used in research please see:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=AnthroVlog

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I spoke with Professor Henry Jenkins of the Masschusetts Institute of Technology’s Comparative Media Studies Program. We talked about the concepts of participatory cultures and remix cultural forms, and how these concepts can be used to change education. For more information see:

http://cms.mit.edu/

Professor Jenkins’ blog can be accessed at:

http://www.henryjenkins.org/

Please note that this is a research site and that comments posted to the site may be used in research. For more information about the study and how posted comments are used in research please see:

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=AnthroVlog

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From Venezuela’s Communal Councils, to Brazil’s Participatory Budgeting; from Constitutional Assemblies to grassroots movements, recuperated factories to cooperatives across the hemisphere- This documentary is a journey, which takes us across the Americas, to attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time: What is Democracy? WWW.BEYONDELECTIONS.COM

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YouTube Editor’s Choice – April, 2007

This video is panel discussion about participatory media. If you’re interested in this subject, you might want to read these books:

The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, by Chris Anderson
See Chris Anderson talking about The Long Tail here on YouTube at
http://tinyurl.com/yotzw4

We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, by Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor’s blog is at http://citmedia.org/blog

An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths, by Glenn Reynolds Blog at http://instapundit.com

I blog (or should I say blawwwwg) at http://philsrssfeed.blogspot.com

Production Credits: This video was produced by John Benson, Maria Benson and Phil Shapiro. Graphic design and video editing by John Benson. Dramatic coaching and direction, Maria Benson.

Submitted to digg at http://tinyurl.com/2eqtl6

pshapiro@his.com

Note – a higher quality version of this video can be found on the Internet Archive as a QuickTime file. 8.3 megabytes in file size. Much clearer audio. See http://tinyurl.com/2g9ofa

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The near future of participatory sensing on everyday mobile phones. http://cens.ucla.edu/

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