Miscellaneous

New from Richard Sherwin on Visual Legal Studies

Posted on February 14, 2008
Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, has published “What Screen Do You Have In Mind? Contesting the Visual Context of Law and Film Studies,” in STUDIES IN LAW, POLITICS AND SOCIETY, Austin Sarat, ed., Elsevier, 2008. Here is the abstract...

Digital Anthropology

Posted on December 03, 2007
From Inside Higher Ed: Evoking associations with musty, forgotten archives and spiral notebooks in the field, anthropology doesn?t immediately come to mind as a discipline fully situated in the modern, wired world. On the contrary, anthropologists have been tackling the implications of technologies on ethnography with each new innovation, from handheld 16-millimeter film cameras and cassette [...

YouTube Suspends Account of Prominent Egyptian Blogger and Anti-Torture Activist

Posted on November 29, 2007
From Sam Bayard at Citizen Media Law Project: I’ve blogged before about Wael Abbas, an Egyptian blogger and political activist who has gained renown by, among other things, posting videos on YouTube revealing brutal scenes of torture from inside Egypt’s police stations...

New documentary series, ?Encountering Attica?

Posted on November 27, 2007
The Projecting Law Project at the University at Buffalo School of Law has undertaken a year-long project that takes a small group of first year law students out to Attica Correctional Facility, a men’s maximum security prison) six times to meet with inmates doing long sentences over the course of their first year of law [...

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Law School Documentary

Posted on July 30, 2007
Via Rebecca Tushnet at Georgetown Law Faculty Blog: The Trials of Law School, a documentary film on the U.S. Law School system, will premiere at the 20th Annual Dallas Video Festival. The film will screen Sunday, August 5th, at 4:30 in the Kalita Humphries Theater...

Silbey on Filmed Confessions

Posted on March 29, 2007
Jessica Silbey, Suffolk University Law School, will publish “Criminal Performances: Film, Autobiography, and Confession,” in the New Mexico Law Review. Here is the abstract. This article questions the criminal justice emphasis on filmed confession as the superlative evidentiary proffer that promotes accuracy and minimizes unconstitutional coercion by comparing filmed confessions to autobiographical film...

Big Dreams, Small Screens: Online Video for Public Knowledge and Action ? Publications ? Center for Social Media at American University

Posted on January 29, 2007
Here is a new report from The Center for Social Media at American University: Big Dreams, Small Screens: Online Video for Public Knowledge and Action.  From the Executive Summary: This study describes ways in which users are employing popular commercial online digital video platforms, such as YouTube, GoogleVideo, and MySpace, to create, exchange, and comment upon [...

Guantanamo Detainee on YouTube

Posted on January 14, 2007
This notice comes via Michel-Adrien Sheppard, AKA Library Boy: The Parisian daily Le Monde reported last week that lawyers representing an individual being detained by U.S. authorities at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp have produced a video posted on YouTube...

More on the UCLA video and citizen journalism

Posted on November 22, 2006
This from ACRLog: The Whole World is Watching - On YouTube by Barbara Fister Sometimes academic libraries hit the news in a big way. In the case of campus police using a Taser on a student in the UCLA library it even has become an international incident...

YouTube at UCLA

Posted on November 16, 2006
(Updated below.) From The Chronicle of Higher Education: Cellphone Photographers Capture a Harrowing Incident at UCLA YouTube may help end the careers of a few police officers at the University of California at Los Angeles ? and if it does, it?s unlikely that students at the university will shed many tears...

Lucky Ducky, YouTube, and the Liberal Media

Posted on November 09, 2006
Tom the Dancing Bug addresses the long tail.  “Lucky Ducky was obviously faking his head wounds.”