Sunday, February 22, 2009

YouTube and Disability Activism

Last Sunday, I was moved to post about Flickr and disability history; today, I'm watching another online forum for user-generated content. It's hard to get mainstream news cameras to point away from the red carpet on Oscar weekend; but it's not hard to put a video on YouTube, and quite a few videos from the Jerry Lewis protests are already up (as I type this, the Oscars haven't started yet). Here's a digest of the ones I can find.

DESCRIPTION: These involve long interviews with Sarah Watkins, Simi Linton, Laura Hershey, and others, articulating the points of the community's objections to a humanitarian award going to Lewis. The visuals involve a lot of bright fluorescent posterboards and crowds behind the interviewees.






9 comments:

codeman38 said...

A shame that none of the three videos is captioned...

Penny L. Richards said...

The videos were literally made yesterday, and by three different videographers. All the on-camera participants are still busy here in LA, they were at the scene again today, distributing leaflets. So maybe there will be transcripts, there just hasn't been time yet, I guess.

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