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Prison Diaries: Prisoners use blogs as a start to social reform

by David Sasaki | May 13, 2008 | English

Sometimes I feel like there are more websites dedicated to documenting citizen journalism than actual citizen journalism initiatives. Among them: J-Lab, Idea Lab, Media Shift, Press Think, MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media, Contentious, Online Journalism...

A Brief Trip to Medellin, Madagascar, Dhaka, and Uruguay

by David Sasaki | May 3, 2008 | English, Rising Voices

Many thanks to Nicholas Laughlin from Trinidad and Tobago and Joan Razafimaharo from Montreal, Canada for leaving comments on the last batch of featured Rising Voices posts. I hope that more of you will leave comments of encouragement in this week’s collection...

[Video] In which La Loma Hip-Hop Star Jorge Jurado Gives a Shoutout to Oso

by David Sasaki | Jan 25, 2008 | English, Español, Music, Rising Voices, Video

All this blah-blah-blah about citizen media and the democratization of participatory communication … all the traveling and the workshops and the guides and conference panels … the true end-goal of it all … the dream … the mecca … was to...

Voces Bolivianas Featured on BBC's The World

by David Sasaki | Jan 25, 2008 | English, Podcast (English), Rising Voices

Voces Bolivianas, one of the first five recipients of a Rising Voices citizen media outreach award, was featured yesterday on the BBC program, The World. In the four minute feature Ruxandra Guidi interviews project facilitator Mario Duran and Voces Bolivianas...

[Document] An Introductory Guide to Global Citizen Media

by David Sasaki | Jan 16, 2008 | English, Rising Voices

Rising Voices proudly announces the first in a series of outreach guides meant to explain the fundamentals of citizen media to a non-technical readership. The first guide, An Introduction to Citizen Media, offers context and case studies which show how everyday citizens across the world are increasingly using blogs, podcasts, online video, and digital photography to engage in an unmediated conversation which transcends borders, cultures, and differing languages.

[Elation] Recognition and Progress for Rising Voices

by David Sasaki | Jan 12, 2008 | English, Rising Voices

Below is this week’s newsletter to the Rising Voices mailing list. I’m so happy with the progress that Rising Voices has made, however, that I want to share it here as well. I’ll be publishing photos from last night’s event soon. I write...

[Video] Don Suso y Doña Blanca Curra

by David Sasaki | Jan 7, 2008 | Español, Podcast (Spanish), Video

HiperBarrio es un proyecto de medios ciudadanos basado en Medellín, Colombia que enseña como utilizar las herramientas del Web 2.0 para compartir las historias locales de Santo Domingo y San Javier La Loma, dos barrios de clase trabajadora. Hace dos...