Waves of Change's blog

Media As a Weapon: 2 Cents from New Orleans

May 25, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgbyoBLnln0&hl=en&fs=1]by Jordan Flaherty

Video Journalists of Burma

May 20, 2009
[blip.tv http://blip.tv/play/AYGC+jSB4Uc]
Anders Østergaard, Khin Maung Win, Interview by Liza Bear
BURMA VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country , directed by Danish filmmaker Anders Østergaard uses camcorder and cellphone footage from undercover DVB reporters risking their lives. The story of the brutal quelling of the September 2007 monks' uprising is narrated by an unseen protagonist, Joshua, a 27-year-old reporter exiled in Thailand.

A Book Grab by Google

May 19, 2009
cartoon by Dave Walker from Weblogcartoons.comBy Brewster Kahle
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
A court in the Southern District of New York will soon make a decision that could determine our digital future.

Manual for Transmission Applications for Indigenous Radio in Mexico Raises Doubts

May 18, 2009

*Comunicado de Prensa
*Gobierno Federal pretende deslindarse de los compromisos asumidos para el otorgamiento de permisos de radio indígena*

Prison Radio Shines

May 13, 2009
from Forbes.com by Parmy Olson
LONDON--Johnny Cash made a mint when he recorded part of his 1968 album At Folsom Prison amidst the whoops and shouts of a roomful of inmates. Today's entertainment for prisoners is a more sobering affair: interviews with politicians, hard-hitting programs about suicide and self-harming. But it too is finding success.

WE SEIZE-- Geography Lesson

May 11, 2009
Geography lesson at WSIS in Geneva, 2003

Subway Art in a Book

May 10, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YQ_J1JYHWg&hl=en&fs=1]

SABC became a “soap opera”. But it’s an educational one.

May 5, 2009

South Africans thought they had fireproofed their public broadcaster when they began re-designing the institution in 1993. Never again, it was believed, would the South African Broadcasting Corporation be used as a tool of political abuse, as it had been in the apartheid era.

Slum TV

May 4, 2009
Slum TV is a volunteer project run from a room in Nairobi's Mathare slum. Films are are produced by and shown to the slum's residents in public screenings.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bruVlhvQBVg&hl=en&fs=1]In the Mathare slum of Nairobi, a project conceived at the intersection between art, actionism and social study has caused quite a stir in recent years.