Cultural Documentation Guidelines, (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress) Blogs about methods and ethics (unofficial) Cameras Everywhere: Our New Leadership Initiative : Video For Change :: A WITNESS blog. Here at WITNESS we’re in the midst of exciting development on all our new programmatic initiatives. One of these is our ‘Cameras Everywhere’ Leadership initiative, which we’d like to introduce in this blog. This initiative takes advantage of WITNESS’ position at the intersection of human rights, media and technology.
As the use of video for change increases, we see an opportunity to become more of a leader and to provide a stronger voice of influence in creating a more conducive environment for impactful video. This entails changing norms, policies and practices, and promoting effective solutions across disparate sectors. Some questions we’ve been asking ourselves to help frame this initiative are: As more and more people film people speaking out and taking a stand against human rights crises, how can we protect victims and witnesses and ensure informed consent as much as possible? The media and technology sectors set many of the parameters driving the video for change field. The Ethics of Online Video: Questions on Dignity, Re-Victimization, Consent, and Security | The Hub. By: Sam Gregory, Posted: Aug 17 09 Regions: Global This past June, my colleague Sameer Padania and I were part of a panel at the Open Video Conference in New York City on ‘Human Rights, Indigenous Media and Open Video.' We used the opportunity to launch what will be a continuing effort by WITNESS to engage with the human rights issues around dignity, re-victimization, consent and security raised by contemporary online video.
Here's the video we used for the WITNESS presentation at the conference. Watch and tell us what you think - what should WITNESS (and others) be doing in this area? Over the coming months, look out for many more perspectives and in-depth looks at some of these issues on the Hub. WITNESS was created over fifteen years ago coming out of the Rodney King incident asking this question: what if every human rights worker had a camera in their hand? So how do we go about "incorporating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights" into the "terms of service" of online video? "Living and Learning with Social Media" "Living and Learning with Social Media" danah boyd Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology Penn State: State College, PA 18 April 2009 [This is a rough unedited crib of the actual talk] Citation: boyd, danah. 2009. "Living and Learning with Social Media.
" Introduction Good afternoon! I have been asked to talk with you today about teens because they are tomorrow's college students. Today's teens are growing up in a world where social media is everywhere. There are many ways to respond to this shift. Even those who aren't running around like chickens with their heads cut off are often convinced that EVERYTHING has changed because of social media. Many of you have come to this symposium to hear about all of the amazing new fangled things that are happening because of technology.
Today's teens are still more interested in their friends than their lessons. I want to begin by talking about the everyday social. Social Network Sites 1. 2. 3. 4. Take a moment.. So why are they here? 1. Choice Points: Creating Clinical Qualitative Research Studies. The Qualitative Report, Volume 3, Number 2, July, 1997 ( Abstract Today, more psychotherapists are seeing the utility of studying their own and others' therapeutic work. With the growing popularity and acceptance of qualitative methods, the research process takes on special significance for the clinician/researcher. Using qualitative methodologies, therapists can conduct studies that are immediately relevant to their therapeutic work. In this paper, I discuss eight decisions or "choice points" clinician/researchers face when conducting clinical qualitative research studies. Introduction Too often in the field of psychotherapy an artificial line is drawn between the activities of researchers and those of therapists.
Therapists, on the other hand, might refrain from conducting research because traditional quantitative methods typically yield statistical data. Choice One: What are you interested in learning more about?