Federal Court Says Anyone Can Be A Journalist While Upholding The Right To Record Police Officers
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/24/federal-court-says-anyone-can-be-a-journalist-while-upholding-the-right-to-record-police-officers/ #MediaActivism #media #activism #journalism

Negativland/Maloney, Tim: Gimme the Mermaid, film, 2000/2002. More informations: Dreher, Thomas: History of Computer Art, chapter VI.3.4. Internet: http://iasl.uni-muenchen.de/links/GCA-VI.3e.html #timmaloney #negativland #thomasdreher #mediaactivism #copyright #copyrightindustry #illegalart #illegalartshow #fairuse #fairuseact #fairusedoctrine #fairusedoctrineartwork

@nicholasvarg @b9AcE

I feel you. Sometimes I put a lot of effort in a toot and it just dies immediately. This is frustrating, and you probably feel it quite often a day, as you generate a lot of (wonderful) output.
I have several thoughts about this:

1) First thing is the timezones: because of the strict temporal order on Mastodon, it is difficult that your toots arrive people in other timezones or with other Mastodon-activity patterns.
A solution could be to autoboost (automatically ? Somebody should make a script for this...) after 8 or 12 hours.
In your case this seems perfectly valid to me. If somebody doesn't like it, they can mute your boosts but still receive your toots (as you mostly write your own toots and don't rely on boosting other people's messages, the experience would be similar to now).
When I go to your profile page, I see how many toots you made I have missed... (Mastodon toots are pretty ephimeral).
You could do a poll about this whether your followers think that autoboost after X hours is a good idea.

2) you seldom use hashtags. I am not sure whether people use them really, except for really nerdy topics (I, for example, still can't figure out how to filter for multiple hashtags simultaneously, making the feature not very useful). So, I am unsure whether they really add discoverability or not.

3) I usually feel hesitant to boost too frequently about similar topics from the same channel (my reason is, that if somebody of my followers is really interested in the topic, they should follow you directly). This might be a wrong understanding of Mastodon-etiquette, but I can't help (maybe due to cultural-educational trauma, I am always worried about annoying people that follow me 😅).

4) we have to be realistic about thw amount od ACTIVE people on Mastodon. It's growing and I think, at least in English (and some other languages) the critical mass is reached to make it interesting and engaging, but many accs are relatively inactive and for not super mainstream topics there aren't so many people here.

5) we have to be emotionally resilient in media, and even more in social media. Even when a toot is not boosted, it has probably reached hundreds of your followers (not everybody gives stars, sometimes also because they don't want to clog your notifications).
This reach is something we should not forget.

Anyway, thank you for your great work and I hope you find the energy to continue it for a long time (but taking care of your emotional/mental wellbeing, please).

jin jiyan azadi! :rojava: :anarchism: :anarchoheart3:

#MastodonDiscussion #Reach #Outreach #MediaActivism

TODAY IN QUEER TV HISTORY

WITH MAYOR LINDSAY - 4/19/1970, WNEW-TV, NYC

In 1970, New York City's cops and government were still regularly harassing queer communities, raiding queer bars, arresting people, and engaging in job discrimination.

Mayor Lindsay refused to do anything about it or even meet with gay activists. So the Gay Activists Alliance disrupted the mayor's TV talk show to demand action. Some of it was questions shouted from the audience: "What are you doing to end job discrimination against homosexuals?" "Are you in favor of repeal of the sodomy laws?" And some was heckling: The mayor says "If you're stuck in a traffic jam, it's illegal to blow your horn." A GAA member shouts back "It's illegal in New York to blow anything!"

The show aired that night with the disruptions meticulously edited out. Ten days later, GAA had a meeting with Deputy Mayor Aurelio.

#MediaHistory #MediaStudies #MediaActivism #QueerHistory #GayHistory #gay #queer #LGBTQ

Independent Media Need You to Get the Word Out on Social Media

Engaging with posts on social media is a meaningful way of supporting journalism organizations you are sympathetic to.

https://fair.org/home/independent-media-need-you-to-get-the-word-out-on-social-media/

#Facebook #MediaActivism #SocialMedia

I’ll be moderating a virtual screening and discussion with the Washington, DC based video and media activist Eddie Becker for the Media Burn archive on THURSDAY JANUARY 5th at 7 PM ET. We will discuss his career which began in the early 70s up to his recent work documenting the January 6th insurrection. Register for the event via the Eventbrite link in the attached event announcement. #Documentary #mediaactivism https://mediaburn.org/events/1-5-2023-virtual-talks-with-video-activists-eddie-becker/

May 29, 2021 & June 19, 2021 - Two of the many flags present at progressives demonstrations in Rio de Janeiro with the face of Marielle Franco, a brazilian politician and human rights activist brutally murdered by the paramilitary arm of the brazilian state in March 2018, that until today without a solution as to who ordered this terrorist act.

#mediaactivism:
• May 29, 2021: https://youtu.be/AiVKz-U5A7U

• June 19, 2021 - Against bolsonaro and genocide of the black people: https://youtu.be/kpvWPdANT0Y

May 15, 2019 and June 7, 2020 - Edson Rosa, a classic activist of the demonstrations in Rio, holds signs with the words: "The strike didnt cause chaos, it was chaos that caused the strike!" and "I can't breathe!"

🎞 Videos I made about:

• May 15, 2019 - Demonstration against the cut in public education funding: https://youtu.be/-0dxjX3ocQ0

• June 7, 2020 - #BlackLivesMatters: https://youtu.be/895UZPBAliE

#photography #photo #activism #mediaactivism #filmmaker #filmmakers #videographer #videographers

🛢️ 📦 📻 New instance, new #introduction, many hashtags. Hi! I'm an #STS #technopolitics scholar, also thinking w #anthropology #geography #EnvHist #Commodon. Likely to chatter about:

#feministSTS #multispecies #anticolonial #California #trucks #internet #port #SupplyChain #MediaActivism #labor #FreeRadio #CommunityMedia #SoundStudies #soundscapes #ClimateCrisis #LowPower #LosAngeles #oil #InfrastructureStudies #CriticalLogistics #Radio #FOSS #hacking #Energy @sts @geography

🛢️ 📦 📻 Hi! New instance, new #introduction, many hashtags. Hi, I'm an #STS #technopolitics scholar, also thinking w #anthropology #geography #EnvHist #Commodon. Likely to chatter about:

#feministSTS #multispecies #anticolonial #California #trucks #internet #port #SupplyChain #MediaActivism #labor #FreeRadio #CommunityMedia #SoundStudies #soundscapes #ClimateCrisis #LowPower #LosAngeles #oil #InfrastructureStudies #CriticalLogistics #Radio #FOSS #hacking #Energy @sts @geography

🛢️ 📦 📻 Hi! New instance, new #introduction. Hi, I'm an #STS scholar with interest in... many topics, but work is #technopolitics, also thinking with #Geography #Anthropology #EnvHist #Commodon. Likely to chatter about:

#feministSTS #multispecies #anticolonial #California #trucks #internet #port #SupplyChain #MediaActivism #labor #FreeRadio #CommunityMedia #SoundStudies #soundscapes #ClimateCrisis #LowPower #LosAngeles #oil #InfrastructureStudies #CriticalLogistics #Radio #FOSS #hacking #Energy

Hi folks, here goes an #introduction: I’m Umayyah Cable (they/them) and I’m an assistant professor in the departments of American Culture and Film, Television, & Media at the University of Michigan, and a core faculty member in the Arab and Muslim American Studies program. My research and teaching focus on: Palestinian cinema, media activism, Arab American cultural productions, and film festivals. I enjoy showering my #rescuedog Jasper with TLC, #gardening, and experiments in #sourdough baking. 

#Palestine #PalestinianCinema #PalestineStudies #MediaStudies #MediaActivism #Film #FilmFestivals #AmericanStudies #EthnicStudies #CriticalEthnicStudies #CulturalStudies #acab #abolishprisons #decolonize #queerprofessor #diaspora #FreePalestine

http://www.umayyahcable.com

If anyone in the UK is interested in looking at the options to help develop something like the above, let me know! #media #mediaactivism #mutumodel #anarchism #collectivism #news

WE WANT TO GROW FURTHER!
You want to do #mediaactivism with us? Let's go!

Moving times need more moving images.

You don't need to know about that.

We're also looking for people outside Berlin and host in front of the camera.

Contact: videoclips(aet)gmx. de

Hallo Mastodon!

Wir sind die nonprofit-Medieninitiative Freundeskreis Videoclips. Wir berichten seit 2003 über Bewegungen für Frieden und Gerechtigkeit.

2.000 unsrer Videos:
youtube.com/freundeskreisvideo

Unser Medienpartner ist https://kommon.jetzt

#introduction #Videoaktivismus #Medienaktivismus #videoactivism #mediaactivism