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Current TV in the Audience at AFI Fest 2007

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Adam Fish, at AFI Fest 2007, giving a heads up to Current and his Kyrgyzstan revolution documentary, in a packed Q&A for the film Orange Revolution (Ukraine revolution). He asks the director Steve York about the role of new media in democratic revolutions in Central Asia.

A great youtube clip from the documentary Orange Revolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgzGOQ-8xjY
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  • smorrisey
  • rawbird
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      rawbird  

    • I disagree Sarahbelle, I think he is right. I think the power of the flier and the street poster remain unique for being able to mobilize people in public places. Blogs' privacy, the practice of reading it indoors, alone, makes activism inspired by blogs unlikely. Public activism inspired by flier-aided human to human contact in public places remains the most important way of communicating. Politicians travels and talk, meet and greet, if they tried to be all web based they would fail. They pay those sign wielding twirling dancer guys on street corners for a purpose, putting a human face and body into their sloganeering.

    • 4 years ago
  • sarahbelle
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      sarahbelle  

    • It just feels to me that his argument that distributing fliers rather than making a website is a rather archaic and nostalgic. While it's compelling to toy with the notion that an analogue viral marketing scheme is better in countries where internet isn't widely available, I don't think it's a solution. Also, he said earlier that the only thing worth reading in Ukraine is online. Fantastic movie though, one of the best I've seen all year.

    • 4 years ago
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