Festival2012/Submit/Curating and Repackaging Citizen Video

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  • Title of session: Curating & Repackaging Citizen Video for the News
  • Your name and affiliation: (@natematias) MIT Media Lab Center for Civic Media
  • Session format: Design Challenge

What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?

An explosion in online video production has changed the nature of reporting and advocacy around the world. For civic actors, the problem has shifted from obtaining footage of important events to discovering and amplifying the important footage. Instead of shooting and editing video, newsrooms and bloggers now need to identify, verify, contextualize, translate and spread citizen video on the open web.

In this session, we will discuss and design new workflows and technologies to repackage and share citizen video on the web.

How do you see that working?

In the first part of this hour long session, we will talk about existing technologies and facilitate a group discussion on needs and ideas. In the second part, we will break into groups to imagine and propose new designs. Finally, we will reconvene to share and document our ideas.

We plan to share the resulting ideas with the Festival groups which are focusing on Popcorn template hacking. Makers interested in prototyping any of the ideas will be directed to relevant PopcornJS Design Challenge sessions, where they can take those ideas to the next stage.

How will you deal with 5, 15, 50 participants?

The breakout groups will be in clusters of 5 participants. With 50 participants (10 breakout groups), we will shorten the introduction section and leave more time at the end for documentation and sharing. This worked for us very well in our Media Diets session at last year's festival.

How long within your session before someone else can teach this?

At the end of 15 minutes, participants will have:

  • An introduction to web news video curation
  • Knowledge of notable examples
  • A network of people with similar interests

What do you see as outcomes after the festival?

  • New directions in participatory + web video for tool makers, bloggers, and news orgs
  • Documented design ideas which will be shared online
  • (we hope) prototypes from participants who prototype their ideas in sessions
  • Stronger networks among the broader Mozilla community interested in participatory video and the web