This class will explore the potentials of creative media activism through encouraging ‘live’ creative interventions and participation in cultural, political and social debates.
Beginning in January 2012 the 10 week class we will be exploring how media activists and campaigners have used their media knowledge, connections and skills to ask difficult questions, provoke debate and raise awareness of important issues and problems in their local, national and international communities.
Anyone can follow a course on P2PU. Participating is the next level of engagement. The sign-up is a space where interested individuals can express their interest and background in the topic and commit to working with the rest of the participants. Please answer the following set(s) of questions if you want to become a participant or organizer.
This set of signup questions is common to all study groups, courses, ... in P2PU. The answers to these questions will be public once you get accepted.
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Standard Set Answer:My backround is in transmedia activism.
I am wanting to research the history behind creative activism
would love to assist with the course organisation.
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Activist artist based in Edinburgh.
Location: Edinburgh
Standard Set Answer:I am an activist and artist and I'm currently looking at art, activism and technology and the relationship between them. This appeals to me on all levels.
I hope to achieve a greater understanding of creative activism and the role of art in politics.
As I am currently studying for my masters in fine art I would love to get involved with a course like this as my aim is to lecture and run workshops.
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Standard Set Answer:I am very involved In activism in mental health and would like some creative ideas in activism
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Location: São Paulo, Brazil
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Standard Set Answer:Bello!
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Standard Set Answer:My previous background
More knowledge and haveing fun
Always, if I have the time
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Interested in user experience design, creative media and the internet.
Location: UK
Standard Set Answer:I am currently studying an M.A in Creative Media but there is little focus within this area and I would like to learn more about this topic.
I hope to be able to connect with people, discuss, explore ideas and get creative!
I'm not sure if I will be able to help the course organisation.
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Standard Set Answer:The new ways you can imagine to do something (in this case, activism) can make you change even your ways of thinking. That's why I'm interested, because I want to be better at communicating.
I want to change the world.
Find new ways of doing things, change the way my mind creates and sees the world.
Yes, but right now I don’t think I have the time to do it.
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I love photography's I love human rights and I love people
Location: Canada Ontario
Standard Set Answer:I'm in pride groups and anti bullying groups at school and I'm creative musically and artistically but I want to do more. I hope to achieve a feeling that what we are doing is helping others feel safer within their community and decreasing negative attitude towards people.
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Location: Coventry
Standard Set Answer:What made you interested in this topic?
Final year project.
What do you hope to achieve by participating?
An improved understanding of the content of the course, and delivery for idea's for future app(s) iterations.
Are you interested in helping with the course organization?
Yes, but my avaliability will be infrequent until Autumn
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Location: USA
Standard Set Answer:Realizing I had the interest and the ability to do something impactful
new ideas
no
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Standard Set Answer:Dropping out from Uni
Desperation
Sure
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Professionally A Creative Director in TV & Online Media. I believe in one humanity and one world. Spiritually we all belong to one faith & one life to live in peace and care for all living beings on this planet respecting everyone in all possible manners. Having travelled most of the places in the world and met people from all places helped me realised that we human are basically the same biologically but our minds work different because it all depends on where & how we lived our early life and what we experienced makes all the difference.
Location: Mumbai,India
Standard Set Answer:Hi there,
I was looking for Creative Space in Online community to share and work internationally with all kinds of people with different ideas and backgrounds coming with all over the world. This online space might work for me to connect and interact with the world which has similar interest and deals in creative ideas.
In my above answer I have shared my views on this question but to take it further I can say that with the invention of Internet connecting people from all around the world really create a huge scope in many areas for people to connect & interact globally not for just dating or making friends but also exchanging ideas and creative aspects to build a virtual studio where we all can share & discuss our ideas and work in unlimited time & space we have.
Yes, why not if your organisation thinks I can contribute my work & time which is approved by your managing team. But first I need to know what are the areas which can be good for me and most important if I am good at it to do my bit sincerely. Please share more to make me understand what you mean by 'helping with the course organization.'
With Best Regards
Shastri.M.G
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A UK-based French documentary filmmaker @ www.vetofilms.com
Location: newcastle upon tyne
Standard Set Answer:I've been working on a documentary film about the French burqa ban implemented last year. You can find out more about this project here: http://vetofilms.com/just-the-face/
Creative Activism is exactly what I'm doing everyday, making films to help people understand one another and increase community harmony.
I'm a strong believer in the idea dialogue brings about peace, and I hope to learn and develop new tools and techniques to engage with people online and offline, and trigger real discussions and debates.
I would be interested indeed in helping with the course organisation, I will need a good brief though ;)
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Location: Torino, Italy
Standard Set Answer:I am interested in the P2P University learning model and also in the proposed course.
I would like to participate to the curation and citizen science in order to share my knowledge and learning more.
I am interested in course organization, also if in some periods I could not have many time
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My name is Maria Martinez, I am part of Occupy Toronto, I am currently a Film Student but I will be changing my certificate to Project Management and Fundraising, all thanks to Occupy Toronto's motivation to create social change in my city and my country.
I am part of the team building the Free School in Toronto and I would like to learn more skills to be able to contribute more to the school and make sure that it's kept running smoothly.
Location: Toronto, Ontario
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My work in the last 5 months with Occupy Toronto has made me interested and opened my eyes to the amount of social change and activism needed in Toronto. This is a very apathetic city, where laws gets passed that affect the unseen citizens, such as the poor, the homeless and the student class.
I hope I will be able to combine some of my skills with skills learned to create a way to reach to the audience that doesn't feel like they are being affected by anything our municipal, provincial, or federeal government does just becasue it's not on the news or because they don't feel it in their homes. A lot of people think that the time to take action is when they are being harrased at their front door, but they need to know that when their neighbour or their local business owner is being harrased everyone should take action because they could be next.
I would be more than happy to help with course organization.
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Soy divertida, me gusta pasar tiempo con mis amigos y en fin gozar la vida
Location: Ciudad de la Eterna Primavera/ Colombia
Standard Set Answer:que puedo aprender de muchas cosas importantes
aprender
claro que si
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Mandy de Waal is a writer and journalist who reports on technology, corruption, business, psychopaths, scams, science, the media sector and whatever else she finds interesting. Back in journalism after spending time in the corridors of corporate greed, de Waal has written for Mail & Guardian, Noseweek, Brandchannel (New York) and a number of other good titles. She now writes for The Daily Maverick because it’s the smart thing to do. A judge for the Discovery Health Journalism Awards, de Waal also sits on the panel of judges for the PICA Awards convened by the Magazine Publishers Association of South Africa. de Waal has a predilection for good coffee, smart atheists, intelligent writing and well constructed arguments.
Location: Pretoria
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The posibility of influencing social thought and behaviour.
An understanding of how to influence behaviour and interrupt the discourse using creative activism.
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I love working for a cause and for spreading the free culture. I'm looking for strategies that help us communicate in a better way.
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Standard Set Answer:I have being working for the last 2 years in a project called infoactivism, doing the spanish version of it to Latinamerica. I am in charge of the twitter account and the site. I work at Telar Social, where we also traine human rights advocates from Mexico and other countries in the use of digital media to communicate better their causes.
I hope to learn more about this incredible topic.
