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"Inclusive" Footage - How Viral Videos Are Impacting Progressive Politics

"Inclusive" Footage - How Viral Videos Are Impacting Progressive Politics

Saturday, August 15th 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Screening Series, 406
Saturday, August 15th, 11:30am - 12:45pm
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The well recognized term, "Exclusive Footage" is a hallmark of mainstream media dating back to the earliest days of broadcasting. With the advent of the Internet and YouTube, exclusive footage is rapidly being replaced by inclusive footage, video footage that traverses the globe faster than any single media outlet can control. As seen in the footage by Iranian protesters, video has escaped the confines and control of governments and mainstream media and now anyone with a camera and PC can produce and distribute video to a worldwide audience. This panel will explore the creation and distribution of viral videos and how they can further progressive causes.

Cenk Uygur

Uygur is host of The Young Turks, the first ever live, daily web television talk show. The Young Turks is now on XM Satellite Radio 8-9PM ET (XM 167) and Sirius Satellite Radio on the weekends. The Young Turks is one of the Top 100 YouTube Partners, with over 10 million views a month on their YouTube Channel.

Uygur is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School of Business and Columbia University Law School. He has worked as a lawyer, television writer and television host. Cenk also blogs on Huffington Post, DailyKos, Politico and AOL’s Hot Seat.

Andy Cobb

COBB writes, directs, and performs satirical videos recently seen over 5 million times on the web, and on CNN, MSNBC, Newsweek, ABC, Fox News, Nightline, HuffPost, DailyKos, Andrew Sullivan, Perez Hilton, Current TV, and Americablog. He’s written and produced for MoveOn.org, Courage Campaign, HCAN, and AAEI. He writes and performs with the legendary Second City comedy troupe, with recent shows for Rahm Emanuel and Economist Magazine. He writes and consults for Current Television, most recently for the animated show "Supernews." As an actor his credits include MTV, ABC, and FOX. He directs Second City alums “The Public Service Administration.”

Sam Seder

Sam Seder has hosted fours shows for AirAmerica, The Sam Seder Show, Seder On Sundays, the Majority Report with Janeane Garofalo, BreakroomLive with Marc Maron.

Seder is also a NY based writer, director and comedian, who wrote and directed the feature length comedies A Bad Situationist and Who’s the Caboose? starring Sarah Silverman, Janeane Garofalo and David Cross. Seder also co-wrote and directed, the Trio Network’s, Pilot Season with Isla Fisher, Sarah Silverman and Andy Dick, now on Mydamnchannel.com. Seder’s directing credits also include Comedy Central’s I’m with Busey and Studios USA’s Beat Cops. You can follow his Tweets at twitter.com/samseder.

Jason Barnett

Jason Barnett is co-founder and Executive Director of The UpTake http://theUpTake.org/, a video-based media organization that merges social media strategy and online technology, tools and access to engage and empower citizen journalists.

Since its inception in July 2007, The UpTake has advanced the frontier of news gathering, recently garnering national notoriety through its revolutionary coverage of the 2008 political conventions and the Minnesota U.S. Senate recount and trial between Al Franken and Norm Coleman.

Jason has been interviewed by CNN, NPR, and a myriad of other outlets about The UpTake and its work.

http://twitter.com/JasonBarnett

Matthew Filipowicz

Matthew Filipowicz is a comedian, cartoonist, and satirist whose work has been featured on CNN, NPR, PBS, HBO, BBC, Ain’t It Cool News, Salon, the online versions of the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic and the London Times, as well as the Thom Hartman Show, the Young Turks, Ring Of Fire and great deal of sites in the liberal blogosphere including Crooks & Liars, DailyKos, Brave New Films, and many more. He has created cartoons for the Nation, VoteVets, the ACLU-SC, Mother Jones Magazine, Netroots Nation, MoveOn.org, the Center for Media and Democracy, and the National Conference for Media Reform. He is a regular correspondent and sometimes guest-host for Ring of Fire Radio, blogs at the Huffington Post, and is the chapter head of Chicago’s Drinking Liberally and Laughing Liberally chapters where he performs with his comedy group, the Accountants of Homeland Security. His work can be found at http://matthewf.net

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