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FYI. Sorry if you've seen it already. 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/ Begin forwarded message: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > **************************************************** This is a message from the SURVEILLANCE listserv for research and teaching in surveillance studies. To unsubscribe, please send the following message to <[log in to unmask]>: UNSUBSCRIBE SURVEILLANCE For further help, please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help ****************************************************