The Positive Power Mobile Media Workshop

Personal Media / Public Good

December 10^th, 2005

The New Media Institute

University of Georgia

So far we have proved the technology. We have the capability to send text, audio, video, whatever to devices that you can carry in your pocket, palm, pack, or purse. Now it is time for mobile media to prove its value. Can video delivered to your cell make a difference in your life? Can cell phone video make your community stronger? Can this most personal of media be used for public good?

At the Mobile Media Workshop on December 10th we generated some answers to those questions. Six innovative filmmakers from universities all over the country to come to Athens, Georgia, for a day of intensive exploration (view the bios of the mobile media producers). In the morning these mobile media producers were given a social issue/challenge/problem important to Athens (substance abuse, persistent poverty, ethnic divides, substance abuse, AIDS, and smoking -- view the workshop themes). Each producer was teamed with local authorities with expertise on issue in the local context. The mobile media producers were then handed cell phone video cameras (the Nokia N90). In 10 hours, the Mobile Media Teams planned, shot, edited and published short video presentations addressing these social issues.

Aids

http://www.nmi.uga.edu/mmworkshop/aids.asp

Mobile Media Producer:
Conrad Gleber
Florida State University

Technical Resource Liason:
Stephen Redeker 
New Media Institute, UGA

Mobile Media Assistant Producer:
Gail Rubini
Florida State University


James Kubie
Digital Media, UGA

Local Issue Expert:
Art Ordoqui
AIDS Athens

Substance Abuse

http://www.nmi.uga.edu/mmworkshop/substance.asp

Mobile Media Producer:
Perry Bard
School of Visual Arts

Technical Resource Liason:
Matt Griffin 
New Media Institute, UGA

Mobile Media Crew:
Jan Beckley
Public Information, UGA

Local Issue Experts:
Pat Daugherty
Campus/Community Alcohol Coalition


Carole Middlebrooks
UGA Health Center

Homelessness

http://www.nmi.uga.edu/mmworkshop/homeless.asp

Mobile Media Producer:
Karla Berry
University of South Carolina

Technical Resource Liason:
Chris Martin 
New Media Institute, UGA

Mobile Media Crew:
Lindsey Wagner
New Media Institute, UGA

Local Issue Expert:
Julie Meehan
Community Connection

Persistant Poverty

http://www.nmi.uga.edu/mmworkshop/poverty.asp

Mobile Media Producer:
Jan Roddy
Southern Illinois University

Technical Resource Liason:
Brian Parsons 
New Media Institute, UGA

Mobile Media Crew:
Hendrik Fischer
New Media Institute, UGA

Local Issue Expert:
Larry Nackerud
Social Work, UGA

Ethnic Divides

http://www.nmi.uga.edu/mmworkshop/ethnic.asp

Mobile Media Producer:
Micah Stansell
Georgia State University

Technical Resource Liason:
Kevin Planovsky 
New Media Institute, UGA

Mobile Media Crew:
Nicole Batten
New Media Institute, UGA


Erica Batten
University of Georgia

Local Issue Expert:
Emuel Aldridge
Healthy Neighborhoods

Public Transportation

http://www.nmi.uga.edu/mmworkshop/transportation.asp

Mobile Media Producer:
Michael Oliveri
Digital Media, UGA

Technical Resource Liason:
Michael Lentz
New Media Institute,

UGAMobile Media Assistant Producer:
Don Barth
University of South Carolina

Local Issue Expert:
Alice Kinman
ACC Commission, District

The Positive Power Mobile Media Workshop was a day focussed on process not product, potential not perfection. By engaging creative teams in an active exploration of the technology of mobile media, we have developed ideas about what this powerful new medium can and can't do. We will be producing a DVD documenting the findings of the workshop. Contact Marshall Akers (mtm@uga.edu) to have one sent to you.

There is a webgalleryof photos from the workshop. And during the day Mobile Media Crews were taking pictures with their Nokia 6620 phones to post on an event website. You can view these pictures online -- and click on the view slideshow button at the bottom to see them in order.

The Mobile Media Workshop is a joint project of the University of Georgia's Mobile Media Consortium and the International Digital Media and Arts Association.

Sponsors:

The Mobile Media Consortium is an academic/industry partnership dedicated to discovering the future of mobile media. Mobile Media Consortium industry partners include Intel, Cingular, Nokia, McDonald's, Turner Broadcasting, BelAir Networks, and iAnywhere. The Mobile Media Consortium (http://www.mmc.uga.edu) is an initiative of the New Media Institute (http://www.nmi.uga.edu/). The New Media Institute is an interdisciplinary teaching and research program of the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Contact: Scott Shamp, Director, Mobile Media Consortium (sshamp@uga.edu).

The International Digital Media and Arts Association (http://www.idmaa.org/) . The International Digital Media & Arts Association (iDMAa) is a forum for professionals working across the wide range of disciplines and initiatives that are clustered around the emerging field of digital media and arts. iDMAa is all about the convergence of people, ideas, disciplines, technologies and progress.