[okfn-discuss] Fwd: Press Release: What are your views on the Digital Revolution?

Thu Aug 20 16:53:28 UTC 2009

This looks interesting!

Jonathan

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JISC Press Release

What are your views on the Digital Revolution?

A unique multiplatform production for BBC Two is inviting people to
contribute to an open and collaborative documentary on the way the web is
changing our lives and the world.

Open source, content creation, being deleted from the web, e-learning,
blogging and copyright are all hot topics on the blogs, with guests
including Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales and technology commentator Bill
Thompson stirring up the debate.

The documentary makers are appealing to web users to help shape the Digital
Revolution (working title) series due to air on BBC2 next year. As JISC’s
work focuses on how digital technologies support teaching, learning and
research, this is an ideal opportunity for you to share your views and
experiences.

Episode one director Philip Smith said: "We're looking for characters and
stories so that this is a human and accessible story that we're telling,
rather than an abstract one in a vacuum."

The programme will focus on four parts including power on the web, impact on
the nation state, impact on economics and the impact on human beings. The
content is still in the early production stages and open for collaboration
with the web communities around their subjects through the blog, Twitter and
Delicious bookmarks at <www.delicious.com/digitalrevolution>

The programmes are hoping to be directly influenced in their thinking and
scripting by the web in these preliminary stages, so join the discussions on
their blog at <http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/digitalrevolution>

The documentary will be presented by Aleks Krotoski, an academic and
journalist who writes about and studies technology and interactivity. She is
completing a PhD in social psychology, examining how information spreads
around social networks online, and also writes for the Guardian.

Contribute to the blogs and read updates on the production at
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/digitalrevolution>

Follow the programme on Twitter: @BBCDigRev

Listen to the BBC Two production team talk about what they are looking for
at <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/08/podcast86digitalrevolution>

-- 
Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org