Communication Rights and Video Activism, Theory and Practice
This seminar will give you the opportunity to realize your own video project as well as to learn about the different ways of using the medium in Social Movements, International Social Work and for documentaries. In the seminar we will retrace some of the history and some actual cases of Video Activism and Indigenous Cinema. We will watch filmic examples of the appropriation of the medium film/ video as Indigenous Cinema which play a vital role in the current struggles for indigenous rights. As „local" examples we will follow the history of Video Activism as in the New Social Movements in Europe in the 1980s and the Globalization Critical Movements from the 1990s on.
We will then enter the actuality of the Arab Spring and Global Protest Cycle from 2011 on and take a look at the use of social media by the protesters and its (attempted) repression by different regimes. This will lead us to discuss the role communication rights play in these recent uprisings and in the potential consolidation of a global civil society and against the dissemination of „hate speech“ and „alternative facts“.
The introduction into the use of video cameras and editing will be part of the class as well as the creation of a blog and the information of encryption techniques. Films, blogs - but also presentations of films, comprising a written analysis - will serve as examination for this course. |
