Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
Once acquainted with the modern information and communication tools made available with the advent of the Internet, five Brazilian rural communities participating in a pilot project to develop a self-sustaining telecenter model, engaged in citizen journalism using inexpensive digital video cameras. Community members used Web 2.0 collaborative tools to post short videos on the telecenter portal. The 95 video blogs published between September 2006 and May 2008 recorded various aspects of community life,including religious celebrations,oral history arts and crafts traditions,folklore,and envirnmental concerns. This study evaluates the impact of video blogging in these communities.
Recommended Citation
Figueiredo, M., Mauro A. Câmara, Paola Prado and Ana M. Albuquerque-Lima. 2009. “Empowering rural citizen journalism via Web 2.0 technologies.” Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Communities and Technologies, University Park, Pennsylvania, June 2009.
Comments
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Communities and Technologies, University Park, Pennsylvania, June 2009.