Posts Tagged as ‘mobile phones’

October 14, 2009

User-generated video & authentication: Sri Lanka

In August a video showing what appeared to be the cold-blooded execution of Tamils by Sri Lankan soldiers was released by the group Democracy in Sri Lanka and aired on Channel 4 news in the UK. Dan Verderosa has an excellent blog post on the Hub (“Should You Believe Your Eyes? Allegations of [...]

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September 17, 2009

Human Rights Electronic Evidence Study

The Center for Research Libraries Global Resources Initiative is currently studying how NGOs and archiving institutions collect, manage and preserve digital human rights documentation, including blogs, social media, and video and other media from mobile devices; the project is described in significant depth on The Documentalist, the project’s blog.

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April 1, 2009

Conference: Media in Transition 6 at MIT

Media in Transition: April 24 – 26, at MIT. Excerpt from the conference description: ” What challenges confront librarians and archivists who must supervise the migration of print culture to digital formats and who must also find ways to preserve and catalogue the vast and increasing range of words and images generated by new technologies? How are shifts in distribution and circulation affecting the stories we tell, the art we produce, the social structures and policies we construct?”

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November 21, 2008

Notes on AMIA 2008: Part 2

A few more session highlights:
New Media Distribution Technologies. Brian Newman of Tribeca Film Institute gave a great presentation on Re:frame. Archivists, filmmakers, and distributors of independent film should know about Re:frame, which is making all kinds of previously unavailable or hard-to-find independent film available via DVD on demand and download [...]

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September 12, 2008

Archiving cellphone video

Earlier this week amateur cellphone video surfaced corroborating that casualties suffered in the August 22 US airstrike on the Afghan village of Azizabad were much higher than the military has been willing to admit. The Times published a piece by Carlotta Gall “Evidence Points to Civilian Toll in Afghan Raid,” which also includes a link to some of the video (edited due to graphic content).

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