If you missed the first installment of the Citizen Media Rendezvous, you can now catch a glimpse of what went on, thanks to filmmakers Rémy Huberdeau, Jason Gondziola and Claudia Gama, in the following three videos featuring interviews with some of the event’s participants. Each film tackles different theme presented at the conference. Comment, embed, and pass them on!
A lot of people have been asking if we can make the presentations from Citizen Media Rendezvous available. Véronique Marino, from INIS, has posted her’s over at SlideShare (you can see some of her other presentations there as well). I’ve embeded it below; we’ll work on getting others soon too.
It took a while in coming, but here is the archived stream of Citizen Media Rendezvous 09! The image quality isn’t always pretty to look at, but the audio quality came through great. You’ll notice the first two minutes are missing, and the clips aren’t cut based on presenter… I’m working through some technical hiccups, but we should have a complete version, split into clips by speaker, by early next week. And we’ll also have some other short videos - including interviews with panelists and participants - up over the next couple of weeks.
Enjoy!
Block I, featuring David Beers, Veronique Marino, Laurent Mauriac and Geraldine Cahill, Part 1:
What is the greatest challenge you face (as a media organisation, or as an individual) in creating & sharing media online?
To help fuel your thoughts, here’s a clip from Jay Rosen, professor of journalism at New York University and one of the leading writers on citizen journalism today:
If you’re looking for more, you can always visit the sites of the folks speaking at the event, or here’s a quick list of some of the sites I follow; hopefully you’ll like them too…
Next Wednesday, August 26, at the Citizen Media Rendezvous we’ll have the chance to discuss the online media practices and strategies that have brought about both changes and upheaval in the mainstream media, triggered by the advent of the World Wide Web.
The discussion will focus on how ordinary people are now able to take on all kinds of roles on the web (news broadcasters, creators of communication tools, community activists) and seem to be occupying an increasingly large place in the mediasphere. A number of mainstream media have picked up on this significant trend, but there remain opportunities to discover. Hence the central question of our first conference: Where is citizen media headed?
On the schedule for next Wednesday is a huge brainstorming session on online media practices. To ensure a spirited debate, we’d like to ask you another question:
What is the greatest challenge you face (as a media organisation, or as an individual) in creating & sharing media online?
Post your thoughts below; the moderators will incorporate one answer from each of the following categories—form (Web technologies), content and community—into the moderated debate on Wednesday evening from 5:00 to 6:00 pm.
We’ve confirmed the line-up for the Rendezvous, and it’s looking great! Our hope was to get folks who aren’t just from a wide-range of organisations, but also have a wide range of interests that complement each other.
We’re pretty please with the result, including Laurent Mauriac from Rue 89, which has been making waves in France, David Beers from BC’s The Tyee (which jsut came out with a new, more multi-media focussed redesign), and Montreal locals Paulina Abarca-Cantin andStéphanie Lagueux of Studio XX.
Things are coming together for what is shaping up to be a great event at the end of August. The Rendezvous website is now up at http://citizen-media.ca. There’s information there about the day’s program, speakers and themes, as well as registration information.
Citizen media has become a catch word that covers everything from CNN’s iReport to DIY blogging. At the end of August, CITIZENShift, Parole Citoyenne, and several of our partner organisations, will be hosting Citizen Media Rendezvous 2009 in Montreal.
We’ll be blogging at this address over the next month and a half with details about the event and the highs and lows of organising this kind of conference. We’ll be posting a lot more information soon (and launching the event’s site in the coming days) so stay tuned!
