Mobile Voices: Cell-phone based community journalism
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Mobile Voices (vozmob) is a platform for immigrant workers in Los Angeles to create stories about their lives and communities directly from cell phones. Vozmob helps people with limited computer access gain greater participation in the digital public sphere.
The project currently is a collaboration between the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California (ASC) and the Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (IDEPSCA), a nonprofit serving low-income Latino immigrants in LA.
We have a weekly workshop at IDEPSCA where the popular communication team meets to analyze stories, develop shared knowledge, design the system, and create training materials. We also meet each week at USC to develop research and writing about the project. Our content management system is a customized version of Drupal, the popular free and open source software.
In this workshop, we'll show participants how to post multimedia stories directly to the web from a cell phone, and we'll talk about how this can be used as part of popular communication and as an organizing tool!
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Voces Moviles (vozmob) es una plataforma para que trabajadores/as inmigrantes en Los Angeles pueden crear historias sobre sus vidas y comunidades directamente desde teléfonos celulares. Vozmob ayuda a la gente lograr una participación mas amplio en la esfera pública digital.
Vozmob es una colaboración entre el Annenberg School for Communication de la University of Southern California (ASC) y el Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California (IDEPSCA), una organización sin fines de lucro trabajando con inmigrantes Latin@s de bajos recursos en LA.
Tenemos un taller cada semanda en IDEPSCA donde el equipo de comunicación populár se reune para analizar historias, desarollar conocimiento compartido, diseñar el sistema, y crear herramientas de entrenamiento. Tambíen reunimos cada semana en USC para desarollar investigacción sobre el proyecto. Nuestra sistema de contenidos es una versión de Drupal, un software de codigo libre y abierto muy populár.
En este taller, mostramos a l@s participantes como subir historias multimedias directo desde el telefono al red, y platicamos sobre como se puede usar eso como parte de la comunicación popular y como herramienta de mobilización.
TBA, by 2-3 members of the vozmob team.
Some of our team members would need complimentary registration.
Presenter: Sasha Costanza-Chock, VOZMOB - Mobile Voices/Voces Móviles; Natalie C. Arellano, Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (IDEPSCA)
Mobile Voices (vozmob) is a platform for immigrant workers in Los Angeles to create stories about their lives and communities directly from cell phones. Vozmob helps people with limited computer access gain greater participation in the digital public sphere. In this workshop, we'll show participants how to post multimedia stories directly to the web from a cell phone, and we'll talk about how this can be used as part of popular communication and as an organizing tool!
