Tag: blogging
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In Media Res: Ubiquitous video, local humiliation, networked dignity
Late last year I curated a week of posts for In Media Res, a superb project that brings anthropologists together to talk about online video. Writing fascinatingly alongside me were Sarah Van Deusen Phillips, Melissa Gira-Grant and Leshu Torchin. Here’s my post, originally published here: Shaky, grainy, traumatic footage filmed on mobile phones wielded by…
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the3six5 – a cadavre exquis for 2010
Len Kendall and Daniel Honigman are running a daily project called the3six5 – “365 days told by 365 different people.” They kindly invited me to participate, and I chose Sunday, January 10th. This means that I am the Gujarati filling in a Indian sandwich. What other patterns shall we discern by year’s end? Will Len…
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Iran: A Nation of Bloggers
[Originally published here on the WITNESS Hub Blog.] The Al Jazeera English show The Listening Post has just rolled a brilliant animation over its closing credits. Put together by 4 students at the Vancouver Film School, it’s called “Iran: A Nation of Bloggers”, and it’s got pace, energy and style (not unlike Avaaz’s “Clash of Civilisations” piece…
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Egypt: Cairo’s women speak out against violence
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] In the run-up to the annual global campaign for 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, Egypt’s First Lady, Suzanne Mubarak, addressing a meeting of the Arab Women’s Organisation, issued a heartfelt plea: What shall we do to face challenges of discrimination, extremism…
Sameer Padania 