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Empowering rural citizen journalism via web 2.0 technologies

Author(s) -

Marco Antônio Gaya de Figueiredo,

Paola Prado,

Mauro Araújo Câmara,

Ana M. Albuquerque

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

roger williams university - digital commons (roger williams university)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.1145/1556460.1556473

Subject(s) - the internet , citizen science , the arts , web 2.0 , folklore , journalism , world wide web , citizen journalism , rural community , digital video , multimedia , computer science , sociology , media studies , visual arts , art , telecommunications , botany , transmission (telecommunications) , socioeconomics , anthropology , biology

Once acquainted with the modern information and communication tools made available with the advent of the Internet, five Brazilian rural communities participating in a pilot project to develop a self-sustaining telecenter model, engaged in citizen journalism using inexpensive digital video cameras. Community members used Web 2.0 collaborative tools to post short videos on the telecenter portal. The 95 video blogs published between September 2006 and May 2008 recorded various aspects of community life, including religious celebrations, oral history arts and crafts traditions, folklore, and environmental concerns. This study evaluates the impact of video blogging in these communities.

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