David Brooks’ latest column in the New York Times, The Outsourced Brain, reminded me of a conversation I had a week ago with Dianne Lynch, the new dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. Brooks writes: My G.P.S. goddess liberated me from this drudgery. She enabled me to externalize geographic information from […]
Youth culture
A new crop of kids: Generation We
A special CNET News.com feature: A new crop of kids: Generation We. When Amy Jo Kim’s son Gabriel says he wants to "watch videos," she knows he doesn’t mean DVDs or television. He wants YouTube. … "He finds TV boring. So during Reading Rainbow we look up stuff on Wikipedia like side commentary. But I’m […]
Raya Ribbius on youth culture
A 7-minute video interview with Raya Ribbius, program officer of the European Cultural Foundation, about youth media. Conducted at the Participatory Media in Vaxjo, Sweden, September 2006. I shot this video borrowing a high-definition video camera from Swedish public television, SVT. Unfortunately, the conversion from PAL to NTSC required me to compress the video twice […]
Julia Ralund on how the young approach media
Julia Ralund of Denmark’s publish broadcasting network dr.dk discusses how young people interact with media in Europe. (Ourmedia page | watch video) Cross-posted to Real People Network Format: MPEG-4 (iPod compatible); 11.6MB; 4:46; Ourmedia page | watch video; video quality: *** (out of 5)
Using the new online video editing sites
I spent a couple of hours today experimenting with the new breed of online video editing websites. I figured this would be a good way for me to post the video clips I’ve been taking with my Nokia N-90 smart phone. Alas, the experience wasn’t what I had hoped for. (Disclaimer: I know — and […]