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EngageMedia: Online Video for Social Justice
by EngageMedia
Saturday November 11, 2006 at 10:18 PM
EngageMedia.org is a website distributing video about social and environmental justice issues in Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It's a space for critical documentary, fiction, artistic and experimental works that challenge the one-way communication of the mainstream media.
 EngageMedia aims to demystify and provide access to new video distribution technologies, create an online archive of independent video productions using Creative Commons licenses and form a peer network of video makers, educators and screening organisations.
EngageMedia has just launched it's beta and is open for your contributions. Get sharing! It's a place to upload your work or download video to watch, share, re-distribute and screen in your community.
The website will be open to independent media covering the g20 meeting in Melbourne, we encourage you to edit your videos and post them to EngageMedia. The site is moderated, please view our editorial policy.
In general we welcome contributions that give context to the actions and issues of our times, in a variety of styles and genres, whether it's documentary, fiction, experimental or as yet un-categorisable.
Our key focus is to present video that promotes social change. We want to promote work that challenges corporate dominance and government arrogance, that exposes the people and mechanisms behind environmental destruction or human rights abuses. We want to build media that questions how the world works.
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Here's a list of things you can do on the EngageMedia website:
- UPLOAD VIDEO
Upload videos via web publishing form. Just fill out a form and hit the publish button!
- DOWNLOAD VIDEO
Search our growing archive of videos, or browse by Genre, Topic or Country.
- VODCASTING
By copying the orange 'vodcast' link into a program such as iTunes or Democracy Player you can automatically download and view new videos as they are uploaded. You could subscribe to the latest videos feed or to a specific member's video channel, or pick your feed by topic, genre or country.
- CREATE YOUR OWN VIDEO CHANNEL
No need to install or set up anything. When you upload a video it is automatically added to your personal video podcasting feed and allows you to add your own custom logo for your channel.
- PROFILE PAGE
Create a profile on your Author page about you and your video work. This page includes a list of recent videos you have published to EngageMedia and a link to your personal video channel.
- WORKSPACE
An area to host your videos, files, pages, images and other information. A collaborative space where you share your files and work on projects or documents with other members of EngageMedia.
- CREATIVE COMMONS
Assign a Creative Commons license to your video. Choose the license you want to enable the easy sharing of your content, reserving the rights you want to keep.
- EVENTS
Post an Event about a video screening, workshop or festival.
- NEWS
Post a News item about developments in the world of video activism or tactical media.
- NETWORK
Contact other members of EngageMedia through the site or send an email about videos you like to your friends.
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EngageMedia is a non-profit organisation dedicated to providing media tools for activists, campaigners, communities and grassroots journalists.
Make your own media!
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