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Jason Nolan, PhD
Assistant Professor
Ryerson University
Room KHS 350
350 Victoria Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 2K3
ph: +1-416-979-5000 x7030
fax: +1-416-979-5239

School of Early Childhood Education - http://www.ryerson.ca/ece/


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> From: Greg Elmer <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: August 15, 2009 5:36:24 AM GMT-04:00
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: call for participants: open source video project
>
>
> Apologies for Cross-posting
>
> CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
>
> PREEMPTING DISSENT: OPEN SOURCING SECRECY
>
> An Open Source Documentary Film Project
> Call for Videos, Testimonials, Photographs, and other Audio Visual  
> Materials
>
> This project examines new forms of social control including the  
> proliferation of Tasers and the rise of “no-fly” and watch-lists.   
> We are seeking contributions to this project in the form of video,  
> still images, and testimonials. This content will be made available  
> for others to mix and remix into their own documentaries.
>
> HOW TO CONTRIBUTE:
>
> We are seeking video content from those of you who have experienced  
> and/or captured on video new forms of surveillance and social  
> control.  Have you been Tasered by police, security guards, or other  
> citizens?  Did you witness someone being Tasered and record it on  
> video?  Has your name been placed on a “no-fly” list – or similar  
> exclusionary watch-list? If so, we invite you to submit your video  
> footage, personal video testimonials, audio testimonials,  
> photographs, news footage, cell phone videos, mash-ups, and any  
> other audio-visual medium which will convey your story.
>
> To participate in this project, please go to http://www.opensourcecinema.org/project/preempting-dissent
>
>
> BACKGROUND:
>
> Greg Elmer of Ryerson University and Andy Opel of Florida State  
> University are working with Open Source Cinema, to create a  
> collaborative, open-source documentary film based on Elmer and  
> Opel’s book, Preempting Dissent.  Using the Open Source Cinema  
> platform - a collaborative website which serves as a repository for  
> user-generated content - the audience will be encouraged to submit  
> their own media as well as to remix media uploaded by the filmmakers  
> and other users.  By publishing a “road map” of production, this  
> project will encourage participation through all stages of  
> production.   The project will produce a feature length documentary,  
> as well as enable a non-linear open source cinematic database that  
> will evolve over time through the collaborative contributions of  
> users. The documentary, the producer's video clips, and user- 
> generated contributions will all be available for remixing.
>
>
> PREEMPTING DISSENT:
>
> This project is based on the 2008 book Preempting Dissent that  
> critically examines new forms of surveillance and social control.  
> This new logic encourages the suppression of public dissent and  
> mobilizes both “fear” of the unknown and “faith” in government  
> leadership. Elmer and Opel show that this new logic stretches well  
> beyond the realm of airport security and international relations  
> into everyday police techniques, including the use of Tasers, the  
> deployment of “stealth” crowd control, the zoning of protestors and  
> the suppression of public dissent. Drawing on social theories and  
> media analyses, this book reveals the underlying”logic of  
> preemption“whereby threats must be eliminated before they  
> materialize. By addressing the implications of this new logic, Elmer  
> and Opel lay the groundwork for more effective resistance.
>
>
>
> AUTHORS:
>
> Greg Elmer is Bell Globemedia Research Chair and Director of the  
> Infoscape research lab, Ryerson University, Toronto. He also teaches  
> in the graduate programme in Communication and Culture, York &  
> Ryerson Universities and the School of Radio, TV Arts. Andy Opel is  
> an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Florida  
> State University, where he teaches documentary video production and  
> critical media studies.
>
> Greg Elmer, PhD
> Bell Globemedia Research Chair, Ryerson University
> Director, Infoscape Research Lab, www.infoscapelab.ca
> Columnist, The Hill Times, www.hilltimes.com
>
> Address:
> Room 309, Rogers Communications Centre
> Ryerson University
> 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario
> Canada      M5B 2K3
>
> 416-979-5282
>
> _______________________________________________
>

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