[Imc-auckland] Engage Media: Social Justice Video Online

[bern at ihug.co.nz]

EngageMedia.org is a website distributing video about social
and   environmental justice issues in Southeast Asia,
Australia and the   Pacific. It's a space for critical
documentary, fiction, artistic and   experimental works that
challenge the one-way communication of the   mainstream
media.

EngageMedia recently launched its beta site and we are open
for your   contributions. Get sharing! It's a place to
upload your work or   download video to watch, share,
re-distribute and screen in your   community.

EngageMedia.org is a website distributing video about social
and   environmental justice issues in Southeast Asia,
Australia and the   Pacific. It's a space for critical
documentary, fiction, artistic and   experimental works that
challenge the one-way communication of the   mainstream
media.

EngageMedia aims to demystify and provide access to new
video   distribution technologies, create an online archive
of independent   video productions using Open Content
licenses and form a peer network   of video makers,
educators and screening organisations.

We welcome contributions that give context to the actions
and issues   of our times, in a variety of styles and genres
, whether it's   documentary, fiction or experimental. The
site is moderated but very   much participant driven.

Our key focus is to present video that promotes social
change. We   want to promote work that challenges corporate
dominance and   government arrogance, that exposes the
people and mechanisms behind   environmental destruction or
human rights abuses. We want to build   media that questions
how the world works.

http://engagemedia.org
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Here's a list of things you can do on the EngageMedia
website:

* UPLOAD VIDEO
Upload videos via web publishing form. Just fill out a form
and hit   the publish button!

* DOWNLOAD VIDEO
Search our growing archive of videos, or browse by Genre,
Topic or   Country.

* WATCH VIDEO
Watch videos in the browser window.

* VODCASTING
By copying the orange 'vodcast' link into a program such as
iTunes or   Democracy Player you can automatically download
and view new videos   as they are uploaded. You could
subscribe to the latest videos feed   or to a specific
member's video channel, or pick your feed by topic,   genre
or country.

* CREATE YOUR OWN VIDEO CHANNEL
No need to install or set up anything. When you upload a
video it is   automatically added to your personal video
podcasting feed and allows   you to add your own custom logo
for your channel.

* PROFILE PAGE
Create a profile on your Author page about you and your
video work.   This page includes a list of recent videos you
have published to   EngageMedia and a link to your personal
video channel.

* WORKSPACE
An area to host your videos, files, pages, images and other
information. A collaborative space where you share your
files and   work on projects or documents with other members
of EngageMedia.

* CREATIVE COMMONS
Assign a Creative Commons license to your video. Choose the
license   you want to enable the easy sharing of your
content, reserving the   rights you want to keep.

* EVENTS
Post an Event about a video screening, workshop or festival.

* NEWS
Post a News item about developments in the world of video
activism or   tactical media.

* NETWORK
Contact other members of EngageMedia through the site or
send an   email about videos you like to your friends.

* COMING SOON
Automatic BitTorrent creation for your videos.