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• we are the propaganda In Video Republic we argue that, in an era when we can all make videos, we have become the new propagandists. Party political broadcasts, produced by ad-agencies and broadcasted on national TV have become (please don't gag) 'political broadcast parties' produced by all of us and distributed on youtube. But this isn't just about elections, it's about our everyday visibility as citizens. It points to new kinds of citizenship. Another manifestation of this phenomena has appeared in today's... continue reading Posted by Charlie Tims on 10th October 2008 in Video Republic
• Photograph Your BCG A BCG scar is one of the few ways that most of us are connected to TB. We're collecting pictures of them, as a way of spreading James Nachtwey's story about XDRTB. 
  
  You can post your scar to the BCG blog in these two ways:by emailjust snap a picture and email it to xbcg@moblog.net and see it appear instantly. by phoneMMS your pic to: 07786201241 with the word xbcg at the start of your message. If you have a facebook account? Install the BCG blog widget and spread the word... continue reading Posted by Charlie Tims on 9th October 2008 in James Nachtwey's TED Wish to Change The World
• Bignachtweything The XDRTB story is spreading fast. As a part of our role in the project we have been inviting people to comment on different aspects of James Nachtwey's wish.
  
  Here is Darrell from Bigshinything's reaction... continue reading Posted by Charlie Tims on 4th October 2008 in James Nachtwey's TED Wish to Change The World
• James Nachtwey projection: National Theatre, 7pm Today, James Nachtwey breaks his story of a global health crisis through a new set of photographs. As part of his TED wish, he has travelled across the world documenting Extremely Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB). You can see James' photos at the new website, XDRTB.org.We will be projecting the photographs on to the fly tower of the National Theatre this evening (Friday 3rd October) from 7pm, and again tomorrow (Saturday) evening - coinciding with projections across the globe, from New... continue reading Posted by Peter Bradwell on 3rd October 2008 in James Nachtwey's TED Wish to Change The World
• When in Rome.. As you can probably tell from all our blog posts, we're getting excited about the launch of Video Republic on Monday. Last week Charlie Tims and I went to Amsterdam to PICNIC to give a preview of the research, and ended up having a brilliant discussion with a film futurist and an executive from MTV. It was the only conference I've ever been to where most surfaces were covered in real turf (it took me a while to make the link: PICNIC = grass).So, having spent the last year immersed in the weird... continue reading Posted by Celia Hannon on 2nd October 2008 in Video Republic
• AITVR3&4: SexEutube & The Targuist Sniper 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 ... continue reading Posted by Charlie Tims on 30th September 2008 in Video Republic
• On Fairness 2 I didn’t attend George Osborne’s recent speech here at Demos “on fairness”, but listened to it on our podcast a couple of days ago. Something had been bothering me about it and I couldn’t put my finger on it until yesterday. Osborne made the case that the right’s approach to the role of government in addressing social and economic challenges results in fairer outcomes for people for three reasons. Firstly, people will be properly awarded for their... continue reading Posted by Jamie Bartlett on 30th September 2008
• Legendary Photojournalist Poised To Break Massive Story TED Prize winner James Nachtwey is one of the greatest living photojournalists. On Friday he will be breaking a new story in massive public projections around the world. They will be on the National Theatre's fly tower here in London. We are helping him do this.Their are html badges on the TED Blog if you want to support a projection near you. This is the code for the London projection. <a href="http://www.tedprize.org/nachtwey"><img... continue reading Posted by Charlie Tims on 28th September 2008 in James Nachtwey's TED Wish to Change The World
• Adventures in the Video Republic 2 Think the current US election is the first election to be lived out on youtube?  You're wrong. In the run up to the parliamentary elections in Croatia in 2007 videos of slips and blunders by politicians from the ruling HDZ party began to appear on the internet. Interior Minister Ivica Kirin spuriously claimed that one popular video made by a 21-year-old boy had been made by the opposition and he knew this because he claimed to have looked into ‘the youtube servers’... continue reading Posted by Charlie Tims on 28th September 2008 in Video Republic Comments (1)
• Adventures in the Video Republic 1 It's 10 days till we launch the Video Republic - a look at what it means to live in a world where just about anyone with basic video recording equipment and an ok internet connection can make and distribute our most instantaneous and powerful form of media - the moving image. Internet videos, produced by us, are part of the evolution of free speech - changing how we see each other, our behavioral norms and our relationship to leaders. They are above all, a new place for public deliberation. So... continue reading Posted by Charlie Tims on 27th September 2008 in Video Republic

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