<videovortex> videovortex Digest, Vol 38, Issue 1

[Dennis Knopf]

I wrote an essay called "Defriending the Web" for this book:

http://digital-folklore.org/

My essay questions the web2.0 being a "new digital democracy" (Time  
Magazine, 2006), might be interesting to you guys!



PS: I once tried to post my video to this discussion but I'm not sure  
my message ever went through because I sent it from a different  
account. So pardon if you've already seen this; I'm playing with the  
YouTube format in the end (featured videos):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzL99tlCs

All the best,

Dennis



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Am 09.02.2010 um 12:57 schrieb Valentin Spirik:

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> What I'd like to find out now is whether there is any research,
> articles, projects dealing with
>
> - is this just a German phenomnon or similar in other countries?
>
> - why are so few women considered relevant or important bloggers?
>
> - what creates relevance/attention/importance in the web 2.0?
>
> - how does it happen that the much praised open structures of the
> current digital world seem to create even more exclusive (virtual)
> realities?
>
>
> My (non) scientific answer is that it seems web 2.0 is (also)  
> simply mirroring structures in our society that is to a certain  
> extend (still) male dominated.
>
> I always wondered why there are almost no well know women film  
> makers. Simply ask anyone what female film maker they like in  
> particular...! Those women who made it (through a male dominated  
> industry) of course had to be exceptional. The first two names that  
> come to my mind are Leni Riefenstahl (controversial of course but  
> basically she created and perfected a modern advertising look long  
> before others did it - handsome people/bodies in a very stylised  
> environment) and the other one is Kathryn Bigelow, a real master of  
> action/suspense/drama (e.g. The Hurt Locker, 2008).
>
> I'm sure there are as many talented women film makers as there are  
> male ones, but maybe women just don't fell the need to show off  
> their egos as much as men often do...? While men can't have babies  
> they can produce art/movies etc. that "live on". (Artists, writers  
> etc. often talk about their "baby" = latest work.) I think that's a  
> point in this not to be underestimated...
>
> Of course I'd love to see more women film makers, vloggers,  
> bloggers etc!
>
> I'm not active in adademia (anymore) and not even regularly reading or
> writing on feminist issues. Same for all the different strands of net
> culture(s), media politics and the like. And so it's perfectly likely
> that I missed obvious things said on these subjects. Please let me  
> know
> of anything you know!
>
>
>
> Thanks for any kind of help and feel free to forward this wherever you
> think is appropriate!
>
>
> Anne
>
>
> http://annalist.noblogs.org
> mostly in German
>
> http://www.twitter.com/annnalist (German)
> http://www.twitter.com/Anne_Roth (English)
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