Author: Şirin Fulya Erensoy

How does video activism challenge dominant power structures?

 

The latest episode of the podcast Dritte Klappe looks at the use of video as an activist tool by practitioners from Turkey who moved to Germany after the Gezi Park protests. Dr. Şirin Fulya Erensoy, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF since September 2021 explores the use of video as a tool of social protest in her research. In conversation with Özlem Sarıyıldız, Video Activist from Turkey, Artist, Filmmaker, Editor, and co-founder of the first web-based video-activist collective from Turkey, KaraHaber, this episode highlights the importance of generating content outside the conventions of mainstream media, creating a collective memory for future generations, as well as the performativity of the practitioners, and its implications for the prospects of social protest.

 

To listen to the episode, please click here:

 

Şirin will be a member of the feature-length documentary competition jury at the Women’s Voices Now Film Festival, to be held in March 2022. The Women’s Voices Now Film Festival, which will hold its 8th edition this year, is a film festival that promotes women and femme-identifying filmmakers using social-change films to advocate for women’s and girls’ rights around the world. 
For more information on the festival and other jury members, please visit the festival’s web page:https://www.womensvoicesnow.org/2022-film-festival-jury

The schedule for the Activating Attention – Political Videos on Social Media International Online Conference to be held 20-21 January 2022 has been announced!

 

For more information on the conference, speakers and registration, please visit the conference website at https://activating-attention.com/

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Speakers:
Tina Askanius, Marcus Bösch, Yves Citton, Tom Divon, Şirin Erensoy, Aslı Kotaman, Sandra Ristovska, Sophija Savtchouk, Kerstin Schankweiler, Josepha Wessels, and others.
Organized by the research project “Attention Strategies of Video Activism on the Social Web,” Germany, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation: Jens Eder (Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF), Tobias Gralke (University of Bonn), Britta Hartmann (University of Bonn), and Chris Tedjasukmana (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz).
Program on both days: 4–7.30 PM (CET).

The admission is free. Please register here.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/216226708907

 

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