Campus MovieFest, the world’s largest student film festival, is a new sponsor of the 2008 Sparky Awards, a contest that recognizes the best new short videos on the value of sharing information. The competition promotes discussion of free and open access to information by inviting students to consider the issues and creatively express their views. ...
As a sponsor, Campus MovieFest (CMF) will draw the attention of tens of thousands of student filmmakers to the Sparky Awards. The winner of the 2008 Sparky Awards will be screened at the CMF Southern Grand Finale in Spring 2009.
SPARC has also announced that 2008 contest judges will include noted media experts:
Michael Wesch, the anthropologist whose innovative video explaining Web 2.0 has been viewed more than seven million times on YouTube;
Media scholar and filmmaker Kembrew McLeod, whose book and documentary film entitled Freedom of Expression®: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property have received broad critical acclaim; and
University of Pennsylvania cinema studies professor Peter Decherney, author of Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American and leader of the 2006 petition for an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for media professors to use clips in teaching.
The 2008 Sparky judges panel also includes:
Nicole Allen, director of The Student PIRGs’ “Make Textbooks Affordable” campaign
Barbara DeFelice, Digital Resources Program Director, Dartmouth College, representing ACRL
Rick Johnson, SPARC’s founding Executive Director and senior advisor
Rich Jones, leader of the Students for Free Culture Boston Chapter
Jennifer McLennan, Director of Communications at SPARC
Jessica Reynoso of Campus MovieFest
Crit Stuart, Director of Research, Teaching, and Learning at ARL
Anu Vedantham, Director of the Weigle Information Commons at Penn Libraries ...
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
