Media Democracy Days Hands-On Media Workshops

Event Details

Date & Time November 2, 2012, 3:00pm – 7:20pm
Location Vancouver Public Library
350 W. Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC
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Website http://mediademocracyday.org/2012/08/30/friday-nov-2-workshops-confirmed-for-mdd...
Media Democracy Days 2012 Workshops
Alma VanDusen Room, Vancouver Public Library, Central Library (350 W. Georgia Street)
November 2, 2012 | From 1:00-5:30PM
 
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1) Making Radio for Social Change: A Hands On Workshop | Hosted by Redeye (CFRO)
1:00-2:20PM
A hands-on introduction to accessing and creating community radio. Participants will discover the pros and cons of different techniques for broadcast journalism, as well as why communtiy radio is uniquely suited to those with a keen interest in non-commercial and anti-establishment programming. If you want to develop needed skills, this workshop is for you! Led by members of  Redeye, CFRO’s longest running public affairs program, broadcasting at 100.5 FM every Saturday from 9:00AM-12:00PM.
 
2) Promoting the Missing Stories | Hosted by rabble.ca
2:30-3:50PM
‘Promoting the Missing Stories’ is aimed at engaging participants in both identifying under reported stories and developing new strategies for how we might make them more visible. Hosted by members of rabble.ca, one of Canada’s leading non-profit independent media organizations, this workshop enhances opportunities for citizens to actively participate in media-making, and draw attention to stories and perspectives obscured by dominant, highly-commercialized, and increasingly consolidated news media.

 
3) Media, Revolution and Regimes | Hosted by The Cinematheque
4:00-5:20PM
In all revolutions across history and geography, communication and technology have played a crucial role in the spreading of ideas. The use of the printing press during the French Revolution, the propagandist films of Nazi Germany, and more recently the use of social media during the Arab Spring all illustrate how revolutionaries and oppressors alike have utilized communication technologies. This workshop engages us in discussion about how different media tools have been used to attempt to surveil and control societies, and how the very same tools can be taken up as weapons of revolution.  Join us to analyze what it takes to not only cause a revolution, but to create one as well, and how that matters to us in the new information society of the 21st century. Hosted by The Cinematheque.
 
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