[Air-l] audio/video at IR conferences

[J Sternberg]

Indeed, audio/video of conferences is a huge commitment, easy to request 
but difficult to provide. Just a few weeks ago, the Media Ecology 
Association was extremely fortunate that various sessions of the MEA's 
Eighth Annual Convention in Mexico City were available online in 
streaming audio/video, which some folks have recorded and posted on 
various sites, and which may eventually be available in archives or DVD. 
For this convention, audio/video resources were only possible due to the 
incredible efforts and hard work of the host, the Department of 
Communication at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México, 
which generously provided equipment and staff, and also raised 
substantial funding from big-name corporate sponsors. Without these 
major resources and financial support provided by our colleagues at TEC, 
audio/video capabilities would have been impossible. Much easier said 
than done!

Janet Sternberg, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Associate Chair
Department of Communication and Media Studies
Fordham University | Bronx, NY 10458-9993 USA
Executive Secretary, Media Ecology Association
http://www.media-ecology.org

  elw at stderr.org wrote:
>  
> 
>> usual annual question:
>> will there be audio/video recordings at an Internet Research conference?
>> usual annual response:
>> 'no' usually phrased as 'the conference group/exec will discuss it',
>> which usually means 'how much will it cost?', which resolves into,
>> 'well, yes it can be done, but only if you donate a large sum of
>> money, and or do it yourself', which usually resolves into 'no, it
>> will not happen.'
> 
> 
> folks who're interested in videoing IR should spend a couple of hours 
> reading the blogs of the folks who have been doing the video of the 
> Debconf series of conferences.  [starting point - 
> http://layer-acht.org/slides/20070122_debian-meetings-archive_SLUG.pdf ]
> 
> they've invested SERIOUS time, hardware, and resources into making it 
> work.  it is a *hard* problem - completely nontrivial.
> 
> I like video as much as the next person - probably more - but this would 
> be a huge committment.
> 
> 
>> Personally, I'm against recording any session other than keynotes.  I 
>> think photographs, blogging, and a back-channel are great additions, but 
>> public recording of session stifles the communal atmosphere where people 
>> can be frank and collegial.
> 
> 
> Pretty much on-board with what jeremy just said.  The backchannel is 
> particularly useful, IMHO....
> 
> --e
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