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FROM THE DIRECTOR
It's always exciting to start the school year again, with energetic and ambitious students and refreshed faculty. We're delighted to announce our fall schedule of events that showcase the best and cutting-edge strategies for communicating the complex, difficult, and challenging issues of our day in compelling and engaging ways. This year, the Center expects to develop new relationships as well, as I take on a co-director, and the Center expands with more participation from our faculty researching communication for social change. I look forward to seeing you soon!
Best,
Pat Aufderheide
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2012 Human Rights Film Series: Give Up Tomorrow
Half The Sky Screenings with Community Cinema DC
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RIP George Stoney
Center Expansion!
9/11 Re-watched
Nancy Schwartzman on Activism and New Media
Transmedia and Interactivity with Land of Opportunity
Chinese Roots, American Homes
Everything Filmmakers Need to Know about the SILVERDOCS Conference
Nefin Dince on "The Other Town"
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Visual Resources Association Endorses Librarians' Fair Use Code
Fair Use Question of the Month
Fair Use and Free Content at Wikimania 2012
Fair Use Video of the Month
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Viva La Burbuja and EZO in Wired
Independent Docs Get a Showcase on NY Public TV--How About Your Station?
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15th Annual United Nations Association Film Festival
AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange
12th Annual DC Labor FilmFest
The Active Voice Lab for Story & Strategy
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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 Human Rights Film Series: Give Up Tomorrow
The 2012 Human Rights Film Series, hosted by the Center for Social Media and the Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, starts with a screening of Give Up Tomorrow, the award-winning international documentary about injustice and the courts in the Phillippines. We're proud to bring filmmakers Michael Collins and Marty Syjuco to campus for a Q&A after the FREE screening, 5:30pm September 27, at American University's Katzen Arts Center.
 Half The Sky Screenings with Community Cinema DC
Community Cinema, a national documentary screening series co-sponsored locally by the Center, presents screenings of Half The Sky, a landmark series based on the book by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Half the Sky follows celebrity activists as they meet inspiring, courageous individuals who are confronting oppression and developing real, meaningful solutions through health care, education, and economic empowerment for women and girls. Washington, D.C. screenings are scheduled for September 2, September 17, and September 30. Read more...
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MAKING YOUR MEDIA MATTER
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 RIP George Stoney George Stoney, the extraordinary documentarian, teacher, and godfather—some say father, but I wonder if he'd be comfortable with that--of the cable access movement, has passed on peacefully at 96. Read more...
 Center Expansion!
The Center for Social Media is expanding in exciting ways, thanks to support from American University. School of Communication professor Matthew Nisbet, a leading scholar on the role of communication in shaping policy debates, is joining the Center as co-director. Read more...
 9/11 Re-watched
On this anniversary of 9/11, discerning journalists and scholars alike will be delving into a treasure trove of international television covering the event. The Internet Archive’s “Understanding 9/11” video archive provides a record of international television news between Sep. 11 and Sep. 17, 2001. Read more...
 Chinese Roots, American Homes: "Somewhere Between" Explores Identity and Growing Up Among Teen Adoptees
When Linda Goldstein Knowlton adopted her now seven-year-old daughter, Ruby, from China, she knew that one day Ruby would have some questions that her mother might not be able to answer. For three years, Goldstein Knowlton filmed four teenage girls who were adopted from China and now live in the United States, and the resulting documentary is an intimate, emotional and deeply relatable portrayal of four girls looking back, moving forward and growing up. Read more...
.jpg) Everything Filmmakers Need to Know about the SILVERDOCS Conference
SILVERDOCS International Documentary Film Festival is the United States’ largest showcase of the years most provocative, compelling and transforming documentaries. Because of the festival’s reputation and scale, it attracts some of the most prominent names in the documentary film world; both well seasoned veterans and up and coming stars. Read more...
.jpg) Filmmaker Nefin Dinc on "The Other Town"
When Turkish filmmaker Nefin Dinc was a graduate student in Great Britain, she noticed that while her Greek friends and Turkish friends "liked each other a lot," they also repeated similar ideas about the other that favored their own country: "the Turkish side would say that the Greeks had 'Megali Idea', which means they want to expand and get Turkish lands still, and the Greeks would say that Turkey would attack Greece if she had the chance." Read more...
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FAIR USE AND COPYRIGHT
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 Fair Use Question of the Month: Starting the Semester with Fair Use
In this month's fair use question, a new teacher asks for resources and strategies when it comes to teaching fair use to his students. Read more...
 Fair Use Video of the Month
This super-cut of conservative Republican Mitt Romney's public stances on abortion through the years is a great example of how DIY video creators are mashing up copyright material to make media-collages for a new and critical purpose. Read more...
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FUTURE OF PUBLIC MEDIA
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 Viva La Burbuja and EZO in Wired
AIR's Localore producers are breaking new public media ground—see the successful Sonic Trace Kickstarter campaign with LA station KCRW to build an elegant mobile storytelling bubble designed to capture the LA immigrant experience, and in Wired, read all about Ken Eklund's crowdsourced project at TPT to rethink education with six fictional students who are "dropping out loud".
 Independent Docs Get a Showcase on NY Public TV--How About Your Station?
When PBS restored independent film series Independent Lens and POV to its prime-time core schedule, viewers then were threatened with the next hurdle: station carriage. In the past, many public TV stations have not carried social-issue documentaries at the time PBS has selected. Read more...
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OTHER NEWS
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 15th Annual United Nations Association Film Festival
The 15th UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival) from October 18-28, 2012 celebrates the power of documentary films dealing with human rights issues, the environment, racism, women’s issues, universal education, war and peace. The theme for this year is HUMAN DIGNITY. Watch Facebook for the schedule of films, to be announced on September 18. Learn more...
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As the US Presidential Election heats up, "AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange" the only African Diaspora documentary series on public television invites you to take a look at democracy in action in the West African context. Tune in October 1 at 8:30pm EST on PBS WORLD to see "An African Election" a film by Jarreth Mertz that delves into all the details about the Presidential election in Ghana of 2008. Learn more...
 12th Annual DC Labor FilmFest
The 12th annual DC Labor Fest is set for October 11 - 14 at AFI and other area venues, and includes the 2nd annual International Conference of Labor FilmFest Organizers. Further details will be posted here.
 The Active Voice Lab for Story & Strategy
Because Active Voice is so dedicated to positive change, we thought it was time to practice what we preach! As of July, Active Voice's founding executive director, Ellen Schneider, is 100% focused Active Voice's incubator, the Active Voice Lab for Story & Strategy (AVLab). Shaady Salehi, who has been with Active Voice for eight years, most recently as deputy director, is ushering in our second decade as the new executive director of the organization. As a team of ten communications strategists, the transition will enable us to build and deepen our services, while keeping Active Voice on the cutting edge. More information..
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Visual Resources Association Endorses Librarians' Fair Use Code
Fair Use and Free Content at Wikimania 2012
