http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/12/11/citizen-video-and-windows-on-the-world/ EthanZ's musings on Africa, media and international development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/12/11/citizen-video-and-windows-on-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-1352021 Ethan Zuckerman on the Need for Context in Citizen video | Gauravonomics Blog Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:54:07 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=2465#comment-1352021 [...] feed in a feed reader or by e-mail and you'll never miss a single post. Thanks for visiting!Ethan Zuckerman emphasizes the need for context in citizen video – One of the biggest discoveries we’ve [...] [...] feed in a feed reader or by e-mail and you’ll never miss a single post. Thanks for visiting!Ethan Zuckerman emphasizes the need for context in citizen video – One of the biggest discoveries we’ve [...]

]]> http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/12/11/citizen-video-and-windows-on-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-1350919 betsy Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:05:28 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=2465#comment-1350919 I tend to agree with your observation that context ends up being important. I have the context for american election videos, but not for Ghanaian ones, and without your commentary I would miss a lot of their significance. Take, for example, the spanish-language pro-Obama song that was circulating during the primaries. I understood why that was significant -- I knew what was happening in Texas, and the struggle that Obama was having with Latino voters -- a similar video about the Ghanaian election would go right over my head without a helpful blog post. That means I'm subject to a double-editorial process for every video about a foreign subject, which means filtering out even more bias -- but I think the same is true for the videos on the domestic front. It's just that the editorializing happens every day instead of in one burst. I tend to agree with your observation that context ends up being important. I have the context for american election videos, but not for Ghanaian ones, and without your commentary I would miss a lot of their significance. Take, for example, the spanish-language pro-Obama song that was circulating during the primaries. I understood why that was significant — I knew what was happening in Texas, and the struggle that Obama was having with Latino voters — a similar video about the Ghanaian election would go right over my head without a helpful blog post. That means I’m subject to a double-editorial process for every video about a foreign subject, which means filtering out even more bias — but I think the same is true for the videos on the domestic front. It’s just that the editorializing happens every day instead of in one burst.

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