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?
Adventures in the Video Republic 2
at 11:21pm on Sunday, 28th September 2008
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’ - this triggered a chain of events that lead to the opposition SDP walking out of parliament. Kirin also mistakenly pronounced youtube ‘youbito’ and instantly became a national joke. As the election drew closer supporters of the HDZ produced their own clips attacking the leader of the SDP Zoran ‘no idea’ Milanovic.
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I realise you have a Europe focus but in Korea there have been related activities over several years now.