I’m just back from a great Computers & Writing at UGA. It’s always good to see old friends and meet new ones!
I was able to participate in one of the last panel presentations on Sunday entitled, “The Instability of New Media Performed in One-Minute Provocations,” organized by Jim Kalmbach and Cheryl Ball. The panel consisted of authors from their new edited collection RAW: Reading (and Writing) New Media. Our instructions were to prepare one-minute provocations about new media. Since Jim Purdy, Carrie Lamanna and I co-authored a chapter together, we decided to pool our time together; and, since our chapter is about video, we decided to put together a video of conference goers and their definition of new media. (Thanks to Carrie and her great new Flip video cameras!) So we ran around the conference terrorizing fellow participants with a video camera (and yellow stickers, but more about that in another post) and got some great footage. I’ve had several requests for copies of the video so I put it up on YouTube and decided to post it here.
The video is meant to be a provocation for more discussion, so there are no conclusions, just more questions! Here it is:
