Video Republic
How young people are changing Europe
Production companies and broadcasters no longer hold a monopoly over moving-images - instead, a new theatre of public information has emerged. Spread across the internet, television, festivals and campaigns this emerging ‘Video Republic’ is a messy, alternative realm of video creation and exchange, dominated by young people. Who inhabits, shapes and regulates the Video Republic?
AITVR3&4: SexEutube & The Targuist Sniper
at 4:24pm on Tuesday, 30th September 2008
In the run up to the launch of the video republic next Monday. I'm continuing to dip in an out of the bizarre world of internet videos.
The EU has its own Youtube Channel - Eutube (see what they did there?). It blurs the line between propaganda, public information and whimsical provocations to new types of public debate - we like it for the later. Some of their videos are alarmingly good - and if you check out (parts of) the comment stream you can see them starting the kind of debate about living in Europe and shared European values the EU has failed to achieve in a thousand focus groups and forums.
The EU has its own Youtube Channel - Eutube (see what they did there?). It blurs the line between propaganda, public information and whimsical provocations to new types of public debate - we like it for the later. Some of their videos are alarmingly good - and if you check out (parts of) the comment stream you can see them starting the kind of debate about living in Europe and shared European values the EU has failed to achieve in a thousand focus groups and forums.
British Conservative MEP Chris Heaton-Harris reacted to this when it was released by saying "They do have an image problem but I think cobbling together 44 seconds of soft porn on the internet is not a brilliant way of solving it." Funny, but wrong.
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