<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Cultural Analysis <<a href="mailto:abbuccit@bu.edu">abbuccit@bu.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">28. september 2009 22:51:53 GMT+00:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:caforum@socrates.berkeley.edu">caforum@socrates.berkeley.edu</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Cultural Analysis Sponsored Event- The Global Lives Project Forum-<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Call For Abstracts</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:caforum@socrates.berkeley.edu">caforum@socrates.berkeley.edu</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>Dear Fans of Cultural Analysis,<br><br>Cultural Analysis is co-sponsoring an interdisciplinary forum,<br>"Representing/Experiencing Everyday Life in the Global Media:<br>Commentary on the Global Lives Project" at UC Berkeley in February<br>2010.<br><br>Please find attached the call for abstracts. We are seeking<br>submissions from across the disciplines that can contribute to the<br>understanding of global new media, everyday life, and the work of<br>initiatives such as the Global Lives Project.<br><br>The forum will take place as part of the launch of the Global Lives<br>installation at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. All questions<br>regarding the forum should be directed to: <a href="mailto:globallivesforum@gmail.com">globallivesforum@gmail.com</a><br><br>Best,<br><br>The Editors of Cultural Analysis<br><br>Global Lives Project Forum:<br><br>Representing/Experiencing Everyday Life in the Global Media:<br>Commentary on the Global Lives Project<br><br>February 2010, University of California, Berkeley<br><br>As a “collaborative online video library of human experience,” the<br>Global Lives Project (<a href="http://globallives.org">http://globallives.org</a>) seeks to provide a way<br>for viewers around the world to be transported “out of their daily<br>lives and … into the realities of people from all walks of life from<br>all over the world.” This goal both reminds us of the diffuse powers<br>of new media technologies to represent realities across spatial<br>divides and brings forward new questions about experiencing and<br>representing the everyday lives of people in the global media. This<br>forum brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to<br>discuss and debate these questions and to comment on the innovative<br>work of the Global Lives Project.<br><br>With a strong conviction that what we see informs how we act, the more<br>than four hundred Global Lives collaborators around the planet were<br>inspired by a desire to harness media to shift the eye of America—one<br>of the least-traveled developed nations—away from its own material<br>realities and toward the diverse realities of life in the globalized<br>world of the 21st century.<br><br>At its core, the project is an effort to throw a wrench into the gears<br>of commercial media flows. By freely distributing a stream of pixels<br>from unexpected and underexperienced human realities to screens around<br>the planet, the hope of this global band of filmmakers is to rebuild a<br>more holistic and humanist ethos for the upcoming generations of<br>globally connected life.<br><br>With minuscule budgets and borrowed professional video equipment,<br>Global Lives crews set out from 2004 to 2009 to document 24 hours in<br>the daily lives of individuals from Brazil, Malawi, Japan, China,<br>Indonesia, India, Serbia, Lebanon and the US. Life stories of<br>individual subjects were also recorded to give context to the footage.<br>Crews were a roughly equal mix of locals and foreigners (including<br>many long-term expats), and many crew members went on to shoot in two<br>or more countries in their regions.<br><br>As the collection of videos has grown, numerous organizations have<br>taken part in shaping the project. These museums, universities, NGOs,<br>videomaking collectives, and foundations helped to envision new uses<br>for the footage beyond the originally intended museum exhibition. The<br>early adoption of a free distribution strategy and Creative Commons<br>open content licenses for the footage was crucial in making the work<br>accessible and useful to potential partner organizations, many which<br>have become integral in reimagining the significance of the project's<br>work.<br><br>As Global Lives completes its tenth shoot this year in Kazakhstan, the<br>group's organizers have received a barrage of requests from<br>videomakers around the globe to collaborate on filming in dozens of<br>new sites using the same model. At this critical juncture, the<br>project's biggest technical challenge is to increase its online<br>infrastructure to accommodate the massive stream of video flowing in<br>from our collaborators around the globe.<br><br>Aside from the contributions of its collaborators and partner<br>organizations, Global Lives has attracted a diverse array of scholarly<br>attention as well. Sociologist, Michael Burawoy, has called Global<br>Lives "a new vision of public sociology" as it has mapped out new<br>strategies for integrating a new media toolbox into the work of social<br>scientists from a wide range of disciplines.<br><br>In a different vein, Sam Mchombo, a leading Chichewa linguist, has<br>pointed out that the translation of the 24-hour Global Lives Malawi<br>shoot is now one of the largest Chichewa translation projects in<br>history. As shoots conducted in China, India and Indonesia enter the<br>final stages of post-production, each of them also stands to<br>contribute a major resource to students and scholars of Sichuanese,<br>Kanada, and Sunda.<br><br>In addition to its importance to scholarship, Global Lives hopes to<br>make significant contributions to global education. Elementary and<br>secondary school teachers in a half-dozen countries have integrated<br>Global Lives footage into their social studies and geography<br>curricula, and the demand for formal Global Lives curriculum materials<br>is growing rapidly.<br><br>Selected proceedings will be published in:<br>Cultural Analysis (<a href="http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum">http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~caforum</a>)<br><br>Conference Sponsored by:<br>UC Berkeley Folklore Program<br>The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities<br>The Long Now Foundation - Rosetta Project<br><br>Deadline for 150-word Abstracts: November 15th, 2009<br><br>Submit Abstracts to: <a href="mailto:globallivesforum@gmail.com">globallivesforum@gmail.com</a><br><br>If your abstract is selected, the completed paper must be submitted by<br>January 25th.<br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>