Global Voices Summit 2017

These NewsFrames Demos offer a 'Choose Your Adventure' way to explore Global Voices new collaborative authoring platform for media analysis. 

Through one of the following four story types below, you can start understanding how the tools work.

Participants are encouraged either to bring their laptop or being willing to share with others.

• Reframed Stories:
  •  https://newsframes.globalvoices.org/category/reframed-stories/

•  Culture Shots:
  • https://newsframes.globalvoices.org/category/culture-shots/

• Typifying Language:
  • US 'lone wolf' versus terrorism:       https://newsframes.globalvoices.org/2017/10/10/lone-wolves-are-terrorists-too/
  • Standing Rock 'protester' versus 'protector: https://newsframes.globalvoices.org/2017/03/01/fighting-for-not-fighting-against-media-coverage-and-the-dakota-access-pipeline/
  • Sex and Japan: https://newsframes.globalvoices.org/2017/09/20/how-sex-is-framed-when-reporting-on-japan/

• Comparative Media Reflection:
  • Venezuela: https://newsframes.globalvoices.org/2017/07/07/what-does-the-media-say-is-happening-in-venezuela/
  • Pakistan: https://newsframes.globalvoices.org/2017/10/17/what-are-we-saying-differently-in-our-coverage-of-pakistan/

Learn through discussion and video clips, how Indigenous communities are defending territorial sovereignty, promoting language, culture and their rights through a groundbreaking network of video collectives, locally owned, driven and managed. 

Among these are the Maasai of Loliondo (Tanzania), North East Network, based in Nagaland (N.E India) and La Marabunta Filmadora, representing 7 Indigenous groups across northern Mexico.

Discover how the Participatory Video (PV) approach:

-acts as a catalyst to radically increase the agency, capacity, confidence and motivation of communities to take control of the factors influencing their lives; 

-provides a platform for inter-generational and gender-balanced discussions, consensus building, and actions outside of constraints of the existing institutions of power, supporting decision making that better reflects community priorities.

Through valuing local knowledge, increasing self-esteem, and promoting communication that bonds disparate groups into a coherent and proactive force, PV enables people to document and communicate their vision of a future based on togetherness and belonging.

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Changes in technology over the last decade have significantly increased the amount of graphic, violent and traumatic imagery available. You no longer need to leave your desk to see the horrors of our world in high definition or real time. What is the impact of this on people  who have to watch this imagery more than most - activists and those working for news, human rights and humanitarian organisations? 

Through discussion, reflections and presentations of best practice, this workshop will focus on sharing: - highlights from the growing body of research that suggests repeated exposure to distressing imagery can result in vicarious trauma - Practical tools and techniques for lessening its potentially traumatic effects 

Please note: there will be no traumatic imagery viewed during the workshop.

OpenStreetMap is a community-driven project whose volunteers contribute and maintain an editable map that emphasizes local knowledge. Join the OpenStreetMap Sri Lanka community in learning how to take part in this collaborative project. 

These NewsFrames Demos offer a 'Choose Your Adventure' way to explore Global Voices new authoring platform for media analysis with data. 

Through one of the following four story types below, you can start understanding how the tools work.

Participants are encouraged either to bring their laptop or being willing to share with others.

• Reframed Stories:
  •  https://newsframes.globalvoices.org/category/reframed-stories/

•  Culture Shots:
  • https://newsframes.globalvoices.org/category/culture-shots/

• Typifying Language:
  • US 'lone wolf' versus terrorism:       https://newsframes.globalvoices.org/2017/10/10/lone-wolves-are-terrorists-too/
  • Standing Rock 'protester' versus 'protector: https://newsframes.globalvoices.org/2017/03/01/fighting-for-not-fighting-against-media-coverage-and-the-dakota-access-pipeline/
  • Sex and Japan: https://newsframes.globalvoices.org/2017/09/20/how-sex-is-framed-when-reporting-on-japan/

• Comparative Media Reflection:
  • Venezuela: https://newsframes.globalvoices.org/2017/07/07/what-does-the-media-say-is-happening-in-venezuela/
  • Pakistan: https://newsframes.globalvoices.org/2017/10/17/what-are-we-saying-differently-in-our-coverage-of-pakistan/

The Wikipedia Tamil community spread across Sri Lanka, India, and the diaspora has been sharing free knowledge in this language. Learn about how the project started, as well as some of the opportunities and challenges for one of the 299 Wikipedia sites around the world. 

Working with eyewitnesses, media activist curators and NGOs to create, make sense of and use first-hand accounts of human rights violations

WITNESS works to enable anyone, anywhere to use video and technology to defend their rights. Around the world eyewitnesses to human rights violations from police violence to forced evictions to hate crimes document what they see and share it via social media and messaging apps.  How can this increasing volume of videos be used for justice and accountability? How do we help people be safer? How do we ensure these videos can be trusted in a climate of 'fake news'? How do we use for good videos shot for the worst of reasons?

 This workshop will focus on:

 i) Key guidance that community activists and leaders can share directly with community members who document and bear witness to violations to help them do it safely, ethically and effectively (for e.g. this guidance on 'Filming Hate')

 ii) Ethical approaches to curating and making use of footage shot by witnesses as well as perpetrators. We'll draw on experiences from WITNESS' work globally and our work in the WITNESS Media Lab on ethical, effective curation such as our Ethical Guidelines and our Capturing Hate project.

This workshop will explore Threatened Voices, Global Voices’ data-driven advocacy project that documents the experiences of individuals who are targeted for engaging in online expression with a civic, non-violent intent. We will explore the data set and learn how to create interactive visualisations of threat trends in your reporting.

Have you ever wondered how to edit and take part in Wikipedia? Join the Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka as they guide you step-by-step to contribute in your native Wikipedia. Bring your laptop if you can and the team will provide any help you may need in creating an account, learning about the basics about Wikipedia, and to make your first edit. 

n 2007, B'Tselem launched its camera project, in which the organization distributes video cameras to Palestinians living in areas in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip where clashes between Israelis and Palestinians are common. 

The project is a form of “citizen journalism,” a phenomenon that has been growing around the world. By this means, B'Tselem seeks to aid Palestinians to bring the reality in which they live to the attention of the Israeli and international public, and to expose human rights violations and subsequently bring about improvement in the human rights situation there.

Camera Project Coordinator, Rima Essa, will lead a workshop about the Camera Project.

We’re in the midst of an explosion of videos of human rights abuses. These videos are changing the face of public debate, showing brutal suppression of protests, holding police officers around the world accountable, showing corruption and war crimes, and much more.

But where are they coming from? And will they keep coming? Will the right people have access to them? In this discussion we'll focus on what citizen journalists, activists and accidental eyewitnesses are experiencing as they try to film and share their experience.

International human rights law supports the principle that people have the right to record public officials carrying out their duties in public . But domestic laws in countries around the world make recording the police, military, and even legislatures difficult, if not illegal. Even in places where the right is protected, such as South Africa and the United States, people regularly face intimidation, arrest, physical violence, and destruction of their footage, photos, and devices.

In this workshop we'll explore how to protect and enhance the right to record and how GV summit participants can join the Video4Change Network and others in an emerging campaign to protect and advocate for this right globally.

Researchers from the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University will demo a tool developed by the Internet Monitor project that lets researchers and journalists test in real time the availability of websites in countries around the world. They will also demo the Internet Monitor Dashboard, a tool that compiles and curates multiple data sets about Internet activity and content controls in over 100 countries. Additionally, they will share information about the Center's Fellows Program, an opportunity to engage in a scholarly community of technologists, activists, journalists, researchers, and more on topics related to Internet and society, and how to apply to become one.

This workshop will explore Threatened Voices, Global Voices’ data-driven advocacy project that documents the experiences of individuals who are targeted for engaging in online expression with a civic, non-violent intent. We will explore the data set and learn how to create interactive visualisations of threat trends in your reporting.

When you see the entire flow of how bad information gets started, all of the sudden, the 'politics' behind fake news becomes clear. Do we have the power to create actual maps of meme creators and distributors in order to help bring light to the problem?

This "hackathon"-like roundtable kicks things off by inviting people who want to try and address this challenge in practical ways. We'll displaying the results of collaborative efforts on several memes, to be worked on throughout the summit, and also try to lay the foundation for similar projects in the year to come.

We'll start out with an intense session at 2:30-3:15, and if there's still motivation and tasks to keep things going, will be around through our time slot in this tent.  Feel free to stop by!

(This session is being worked on in advance, with NewsFrames and Zotero applications)