[alt-media-res] imc uk chronology

[zoe]

hey great work!
looking really interesting and getting to be clear
what is status of this now - I mean, can anyone add or improve bits?
for example, at first glance, i could think of adding conscious cinema's
involvement at backspace for june 18th,
and the imc indian film fest at rampart in early 2005,
soo.... would I just add them in on a wiki or send suggestions to marion or
what???
cheers all
xz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marion Hamm" <marion.hamm at gmx.net>
To: <alt-media-res at lists.aktivix.org>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 11:46 PM
Subject: [alt-media-res] imc uk chronology


> Hi,
> Here are the beginnings of an imc uk chronology as proposed and agreed.
> The categories I used have been checked with Steffen and Andre.
> This version of the imc uk chronology spreadsheet is still quite London
> centered, partly because this is where the indymedia project in the UK
> started, and partly due to my involvement in this location. Therefore,
> this spreadsheet does not give you the full "storyline", as andre said
> in a different mail. I don't know what your questions and your approach
> for the imc uk history are, so I collected entries that are seen as
> important within the imc uk network. It is a selection, not a complete
> archive. An account of the imc uk history would need to clearly show the
> decentralised character of the network.
>
> In the wiki (under project organisation chronology proposal), I defined
> clearly what notion of imc uk i am using. Since I am under the
> impression that this project uses a much wider definition of imc uk, you
> might want to add data about people, groups and projects who post to,
> read and appear on indymedia (this could become a great history of
> certain social movements in the uk!) For an alternative media timeline,
> you'd probably want to include all video and radio groups that produce
> alternative media, the wealth of activist blogs and a multitude of other
> alternative media makers.
>
> I include a break-down of the categories I used. I've tagged the
> spreadsheet with a creative commons licence, attributions should be made
> to imc uk. The indymedia wiki docs.indymedia.org is currently down, so
> some links might not be accessible. As soon as it is up again, I will
> upload the spreadsheet to it.
>
> best
> Marion
>
> ----START CATEGORIES---
>
> Some of the Columns are searchable with Autofilter or "Sort", others
> include open content. They have been chosen with possible use by the
> "United Kollektives" in mind. You can add your own categories to code
> the entries according to your research needs (and of course add or
> delete entries, regroup them etc).
>
> date - searchable. date of event
>
> event - content. description of event
>
> Sources - content. ...to make it quotable. URL, notes, interviews...
>
> References pub. - content. published references (for cross referencing.
> For expl, there will be articles to quote about the European Social
> Forum etc.)
>
> Comments - quotes from websites in question, more info than in the
> "event" column. Sometimes reminders to check dates etc.
>
> Location - searchable. Where did it take place? Online events might have
> a server or a list as location, I found "cyberspace" not specific enough.
>
> Imc Group involved - searchable. To code the activities of local groups,
> so that it is possible to see their activities at first glance.
> Sometimes there will be more than one group - don't know how to handle
> that yet. It's also complicated because many things happen without a
> named group doing them. For expl, many imc video screenings in London
> are being organised by the same bunch of people from the imc-london
> collective, but not everybody from the imc-london collective is
> involved, and some people who are involved might not participate in the
> imc-london meetings or mailing lists. I'd code the London imc screenings
> as imc-london (but they are not listed yet), then see what those
> involved say.
>
> Category of Event - searchable. I've tried to assign a single category
> to each event: Collaboration, Context, Decentralisation, Event (mainly
> real space events, online stuff tends to be coded as Reporting), Global
> Network (the global imc network), Location (Stuff that i only included
> because it gives a sense of the "real space" location. could also be
> listed as "meeting"), Mailing lists (shows the growing of the uk
> network), Meeting (will include the imc network meetings), Mobilisation
> (entries about big demos and mobilisations), New Group (when I could
> identify a date for a new group that positions itself within the imc uk
> network), Physical imc (when a real-space access point or imc was set
> up), Print (there will be more entries, printed material is v
> important), Reporting (this could also be seen as "web-event" or "web
> action". It is more than just posting one report.), Repression (couldn't
> think of a better name, but found it important to include for it shows
> what indymedia collectives have to deal with. There is a much longer
> list, I included those cases that I found in the imc uk features, but
> not complete), website (the development of the various imc websites in
> the UK (3 today) is crucial for the collectives who are looking after
> them, important markers referred to in conversations).
>
> Media used - searchable. This is tricky, because often there is more
> than one medium being used. But if they are entered in exactly the same
> order each time, this column can be used for searching.
>
> Collaborations specific - content. I haven't entered much here, you can
> look at the sources provided to see who collaborated.
>
> ----END CATEGORIES---
>