JUST RELEASED: download the Messages in Motion TOOLKIT! A Step by step zine to making your own media! The 4-page spread can be copied onto an 11x 17 document or used as individual pages. This is the Beta version- so all feedback and suggestions are welcome. We are also working to translate this into Spanish!
| Affordable Equipment | |
| Team Children | Provides affordable computers to families, schools and organizations in the Philadelphia region. |
| Nonprofit Technology Resources | Provides affordable computers and training to residents in the Philadelphia region. |
| Flip Spotlight Program | Nonprofit orgs and educators can apply to the Flipspotlight program to purchase cameras at a 2 for 1 price. (2 for $150.) |
| Support local independent media outlets | |
| Philadelphia Community Access Media | Watch PhillyCAM on Comcast Cable 66/966 or Verizon FIOS 29/ 30 |
| Media Mobilizing Project | Media and movement building in Philly- Movements begin with the telling of untold Stories |
| WPEB 88.1 Radio station | FM Community Radio in West Philly |
| Defenstrator | Look for the newspaper and read up on local organizing and activism |
| Termite TV Collective | Local collective of video makers who produce, distribute and facilitate the creation of experimental and activist media that challenges the status quo and provides an alternative to corporate media |
Additional Readings:
Atkins, Robert, Rudolf Frieling, Boris Groys and Lev Manovich. The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2008.
Avni, Ronit, Gillian Caldwell, Sam Gregory and Thomas Harding, eds. Video for Change. London: Pluto Press, 2005. Download chapters for free
Bansal,Lipika, Paul Keller and Geert Lovink, eds., In The Shade of the Commons: Towards a Culture of Open Networks, Waag Society, 2006. www.waag.org/project/shade
Bishop, Claire, ed. Participation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.
Borrup, Tom. The Creative Community Builder’s Handbook. Saint Paul: Fieldstone Alliance, 2006.
Halleck, DeeDee. Hand-Held Visions. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002.
Lambert, Joe. Digital Storytelling Cookbook. Berkeley, Digital Diner Press, 2006. Download the introductory chapters
Related Projects of Interest:
Sarai: Cybermohalla
The Black Factory
The Stockyard Institute, Pedagogical Factory
Mobile Journalism Collective
Ant Farm Media Van 1972/2009 (Interview about the project with Floater magazine)
Indivisible, Stories of American Communities
