Transmedia Activism Workshop at the Open Video Conference

The Open Video Conference, in New York City on June 19-20, 2009, will bring together artists, activists, academics, technologists and entrepreneurs to explore issues of transparency, collaboration and decentralization in online video. On Day 2 of the conference, Vicki Callahan (Founder of the Conceptual Studies program at Universty of Wisconsin at Milwaukee), Lotje Sodderland (creator of Planet of Slums, a multi-authored web documentary in production) and I will conduct a hands-on workshop on Transmedia Activism, entitled "Creating a Cross-Media Platform for Social Issue Campaigns." We will explore parts of the transmedia activism framework specifically related to online video creation and distribution, and how the strategic use of those tools advance a social change campaign.

The conference promises to be engaging and thought-provoking. Conference speakers include: Clay Shirky, Ted Hope (Film producer, Adventureland), Lance Weiler (The Workbook Project), Nina Paley (Sita Sings the Blues) and Sam Gregory, Program Director of Witness. Hope to see you there.

(Cross-posted with Feminism 3.0.)

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Lina Srivastava catalyzes and amplifies social impact through creative media. She is a strategist who combines technology, culture, art, and storytelling for social transformation by:

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An attorney by training from New York University School of Law, Lina has been involved in campaigns for several documentaries, including Oscar-winning Born into Brothels, Emmy-nominated The Devil Came on Horseback, Oscar-winning Inocente, and Sundance-award winning Who Is Dayani Cristal?

The creator of the Transmedia Activism framework, which guides the development of media, art, and technology projects from story to social action, she is currently one of a handful of people in the world creating narrative-based social change initiatives with NGOs, global institutions, and independent media creators, combining both field experience with skills in documentary engagement and transmedia design.

Lina provides workshops, consultations, keynote addresses, panel discussions, and speeches on the rise of storytelling, narrative platforms, and social innovation as tools for social change, including at Yale Law School, Lincoln Center, MIT Media Lab, TEDx, and the Tribeca Film Festival.

The former Executive Director of Kids with Cameras, and the Association of Video and Filmmakers, Lina has taught design and social entrepreneurship at Parsons, The New School of Design, and is on faculty in the Masters of Fine Arts Program in Design and Social Innovation at the School of Visual Arts. A graduate of the New York University School of Law, Lina received her BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and also studied at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University, the Support Center for Nonprofit Management, the Hastings Center for Bioethics, and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.

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Transmedia Activism Workshop at the Open Video Conference

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