We Are Media

This is my Reflective Web Media Creation for Web207/507 for Curtin University.

My video montage is an open letter to copyright holders and producers who seem to be under the false impression that audiences are faceless and passive mass who, will sit still and watch quietly, just because they tell us to. They need to understand media is a shared conversation, a work in progress. The conversion between producers and viewers/users cuts both ways.

Attention and spreadability are the new currency. As fixed, one-to-many media and single-use devices continue to lose their grip on audiences, media producers risk losing what's left of their power and control. Cultural and social media practices and technologies will continue to change the way we use and create media, so copyright law needs to adapt to meet the ever changing media landscape or risk being left behind.

All historical video footage sourced from Archive.org/Prelinger Archives except and Archive.org/Stock Footage under public domain licence

Selected stills sourced from NASA on The Commons.


CREDITS

MUSIC

Victor Herbert Orchestra (1909)
It Happened in Nordland.
The Victor herbert Orchestra Edison Cylinders 1909-1913.
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Victor_Herbert_Orchestra/Edison_Cylinders

Cold Mailman. (2011)
Pull Yourself Together And Fall In Love With Me.
Best Of Breitband Vol.3.
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Cold_Mailman/Best_of_Breitband_v3/Cold_Mail...

HISTORICAL FOOTAGE

All licensed under Public Domain.

"1959 RCA 21-inch TV Screen". Jam Handy. http://www.archive.org/details/CEP449

Master Hands (Part IV)". Handy (Jam) Organization. http://www.archive.org/details/MasterHa1936_4

"On Guard! The Story of SAGE". Producer: IBM Corporation, Military Products Division. http://www.archive.org/details/OnGuard1956

"Operator Toll Dialling: Teamwork (ca. 1949)". Producer: Audio Productions, Inc. http://www.archive.org/details/Operator1949_4

"Programmer with Magic Memory: Another Newsmaker". Producer: Handy (Jam) Organization. http://www.archive.org/details/Programm1959

"Reasons Why, The (Part I)". Producer: Handy (Jam) Organization. http://www.archive.org/details/reasons_why_1

"Transportation: Bus, Truck, and Taxi". Producer: Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc. http://www.archive.org/details/Transpor1946

"1959 RCA 21-inch TV Screen". Jam Handy. http://www.archive.org/details/CEP449

"Big Underground Explosion 4". U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. http://www.archive.org/download/CEP00094/CEP00094_512kb.mp4

STILLS:

NASA (1969) Spiro Agnew and Lyndon Johnson Watch the Apollo 11 Liftoff. NASA Great Images in Nasa Collection. NASA on The Commons. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/4479640412/

NASA (1969) Buzz Aldrin on the Moon. NASA Great Images in Nasa Collection. Retrieved via NASA on The Commons. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/5136519916/

All other video and images are shot by me. See my Photostream on Flikr for more details http://www.flickr.com/photos/49786859@N08/with/5588703460/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• web207
• web507
• RWMC
• webmedia
• curtin
• copyright
• creativecommons
• video
• media
• digitisation
• convergence
• arts
• communications