Books: "We the media" by Dan Gillmor "The people formerly known as the audience" by Jay Rosen "Smart mobs. The next social revolution" by Howard Rheingold "The wealth of networks: how social production transforms markets and freedom" by Yochai Benkler "Remix. Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy" by Lawrence Lessig " Free culture" by Lawrence Lessig "Why networks matter" by Manuel Castells http://www.demos.co.uk/files/File/networklogic17castells.pdf "Living and learning with New Media" by Ito, Mizuko, Heather A. Horst, Matteo Bittanti, danah boyd, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Patricia G. Lange, C.J. Pascoe, and Laura Robinson downloadable report, findings and book chapters at http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/report Filmaking and video Creative Commons' for filmakers http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Filmmaker Machinima collaborative video editing suite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima Blinkx video search engine http://blinkx.com Dot Sub upload and subtitle videos http://dotsub.com Al Jazeera Creative Commons repository: video footage high definitition downloadable under Creative Commons license http://cc.aljazeera.net Open video conference http://openvideoconference.org Music Ableton Suite music editing tools http://www.ableton.com/suite-8 Jamendo largest Creative Commons' released music platform http://www.jamendo.com Thesixtyone music community http://www.thesixtyone.com Open source platforms and tools for bloggers, journalists, artists, filmakers, etc Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/about/about.php Most interesting 100 tools at http://www.onlinecourses.org/2009/06/09/100-awesome-open-source-tools-for-writers-journalists-and-bloggers Social Media and web 2.0 Social Media Tips and How-To's for beginners http://www.socmedia101.com/ Ushaidi web 2.0 plaftform for aggregating different feeds and crowdsourcing crisis information http://www.ushahidi.com Digiactive's guide to activism via Twitter http://www.digiactive.org/wp-content/uploads/digiactive_twitter_guide_v1-0.pdf Arabic translation soon to be provided..take a look at http://socialmediaexchange.org/ How to Twitter (tips courtesy of Fred Benenson, Creative Commons Outreach Manager)
Digiactive's guide to activism available in English and Arabic http://socialmediaexchange.org/ Other digital media classes Joi's class in Keio, Japan Howard Rheingold's class on Digital Journalism at Stanford: Digital journalism class at USFCA. |