Charlie Tims
Associate
Charlie Tims recently co-wrote Video Republic, a look at the social and political significance of internet videos. He is currently involved in producing a part of the TED prize in London.
at 4:24pm on Tuesday, 30th September 2008
In the run up to the launch of the video republic next Monday. I'm continuing to dip in an out of the bizarre world of internet videos.
The EU has its own Youtube Channel - Eutube (see what they did there?). It blurs the line between propaganda, public information and whimsical provocations to new types of public debate - we like it for the later. Some of their videos are alarmingly good - and if you check out (parts of) the comment stream you can see them starting the kind of debate about living in Europe and shared European values the EU has failed to achieve in a thousand focus groups and forums.
The EU has its own Youtube Channel - Eutube (see what they did there?). It blurs the line between propaganda, public information and whimsical provocations to new types of public debate - we like it for the later. Some of their videos are alarmingly good - and if you check out (parts of) the comment stream you can see them starting the kind of debate about living in Europe and shared European values the EU has failed to achieve in a thousand focus groups and forums.
British Conservative MEP Chris Heaton-Harris reacted to this when it was released by saying "They do have an image problem but I think cobbling together 44 seconds of soft porn on the internet is not a brilliant way of solving it." Funny, but wrong.
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