Internet – Cyfrowi humaniści / Digital humanists

Media, archives, storytelling

agakud — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 16:36:00 +0000

Do media need archives? What has storytelling to do with archive materials? Stories holded on archive sources. Archive sources could be included into media narratives on a attractive way, e.g. using storytelling. There are at least two reasons for it. The stories become „second life” and media don’t have to construct content which can be useful and interesting for its audience. They can use ready sources.

These questions were the issuu of the conference and workshop „Learn – Do – Share”, on June, 24, 2015, in Warsaw. Read some insights of it.
Top of the top was the presentation of initiator of this event: Lance Weiler – http://bit.ly/lds2015.

Lance has shown us this storytelling & Internet project „Sherlock Holms” and named these

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Some presenters talked about theoretical and practical concepts related to media:

– perceptive media – audience can influence the content, e.g. „Perceptive media Breaking Out”, see here: www.futurebroadcasts.com. The aim is to accept different versions, different narratives in the same „space”.

– transmedia storytelling means to integrate different media at one place, e.g. presentation, project. An example is a presentation which contains of audio and video podcast instead of text and photo.

Last but not least some networking projects:

– https://www.ethereum.org – alternative space for applications

– https://www.snapchat.com – a social platform for short docu-films

Social und media start-ups:

– Getifinity.com – application „Virtual Warsaw” for people with disabilities and cultural institutions

– Peeky: 1. Moments (postcrossing), 2. Living for the news, 3. Local info (geoquestions) (SaaS business model), 4. Click: click with your local businesses.

– Plan.es – Polish communicator – similar to Yik Yak application

The program and abstracts of the talks you will find here: http://learndoshare.net/.

Network of Polish NGO’s

agakud — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:15:00 +0000

Looking for network of NGO’s? Join the National Federation of Polish NGOs (Ogólnopolska Federacja Organizacji Pozarządowych, OFOP). OFOP is organising a meeting (a forum) of Polish non-governmental organisations every 4 years.

On September, 14, I, representing my NGO, KARTA Center, have talked to different NGO’s while the Forum of Polish NGO’s in Warsaw about documenting of their history. Most of them are really interested in learning this kind of activities. So they will apply to trainings of the KARTA Center, how to do it.

Textbook „History and human rights”

agakud — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 18:20:00 +0000

KARTA Center’ve published the textbook „History and human rights” and translated it into English. You can find the textbook here. I’m the co-editor of the textbook.

The 90s: American Peace Corps in Poland

agakud — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 12:36:00 +0000

Did you know that the volunteers of the American Peace Corps were working also in Poland? I worked on a one-year documentary project about their work. Effects of the project are a bilingual publication and a bilingual Web-presentation: www.korpus.karta.org.pl (pl) and http://korpus.karta.org.pl/?lang=en (en). Some collected photos you can see here.

Network of cultural and civic activists – MitOst

agakud — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:55:00 +0000

The Society MitOst is a living network of cultural and civic activists in Eastern and Central Europe. Every year member meet at different cities in the region. A member can be everyone, who is interested in the culture and civic life in the region. The meetings have the name „Festival” and have different topics. E.g. the 9th Festival of MitOst took place in České Budějovice from 28.9.2011 till 2.10.2011. The topic of this MitOst – Festival was new forms of engagement. There were many people who are engaged for a balanced life.

I also took part on some interesting workshops about engagement via Internet and readings and talks about East Central Europe.

Carmen Eller: „Ein Jahr in Moskau – Reise in den Alltag”, reading and discussion

More about the 11th MitOst-Festival you can find here: http://www.mitost.org/mitglieder/internationales-mitost-festival/festival-archiv/festival-2011.html (in German).

MitOst is 15 years old, that’s why the big cake! After eating the cake with some 200 hunderts other people at the Festival, we went to one of many concerts while the Festival…

After the 9th MitOst-Festival in České Budějovice some MitOst-members went to Český Krumlov. It is a small city in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic with fine architecture and art of the historic old town and Český Krumlov Castle. It should be also mentioned that the Old Český Krumlov is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The pictue shows also the Revolving Theatre, which is an amazing thing one should see.

Prague is the place where different ways are crossing and many members of the association MitOst could meet after of before the annual meeting event, the so-called „MitOst-Festival”. It is a very open city with some quite unusual monuments.

More about MitOst you can find here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MitOst.

Monuments in L’viv – 1867-1939 – a concept

agakud — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:12:00 +0000

Do you look for concepts of analyses on remembrance? Look at this poster.