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Interview in the ITU PP-22 TV Studio in Bucharest, Romania
13th October 2022
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I have recently been interviewed by www.happyphoton.de about my photography.
Read more about that and an english translation here on my Blog
Portigal, Steve. 2013. Interviewing Users. New York: Rosenfeld Media. rosenfeldmedia.com/books/interviewing-users/
I have never met Jodie, aka Snuffy, in person but I feel we have so much in common. The day we met, and I really hope some day in this life, I am pretty sure it will feel like we have always known each other. I love the way she photographs her dolls, I love the way she dresses them up, I love the way she loves Blythe and I love the way she uses humor to brighten her life and others’!
Jodie is a member of the red “Aussie” team and we are all so happy to have her in the For the Love of Blythe book project. Jodie is also a fantastic fashion designer for Blythe, with a great eye for fabrics and colors. She makes our dolls look like princesses with a sassy look and this is irresistible!
Interview: www.blythe-doll-fashions.com/2013/03/10/fashion-designer-...
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I made this portrait of her several years ago and I also interviewed her (see below)
Mary Joyce is an American researcher and consultant living in Boston, USA. In June 2005, she founded Demologue.com demologue.com/index.html, an online network for worldwide digital activists. This site is not active anymore but Mary now runs a new Blog, Zapboom.com www.zapboom.com/ which is about "digital activism from a global perspective". Mary Joyce can be contacted through her blog.
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Interview with Mary Joyce
Ben Heine: How was Demologue.com founded? How did the first members of the network meet? Which role did you play in its creation?
Mary Joyce: I founded it in June of 2005, but there were never any other members. I collaborated with different individuals on isolated projects, as you can see here, but I was the only real member of Demologue.com.
BH: Which audience does Demologue.com target?
MJ: The goal was to target the whole world. That is why I published it in 4 languages (English, French, Spanish, Arabic), but I never promoted the website, so no one ever found it. Certainly no community ever formed around it.
BH: Is the word « demosphere » comparable to the words « cyber democracy » or « e-democracy»? Could you explain?
MJ: According to the Demosphere Manifesto, which I wrote with Paramendra Bhagat, "The demosphere is an international digital democracy network. It is a digital ecosystem of web sites, blogs, and digital citizens who would like to support democracy movements around the world." I would say that it could be a part of cyber democracy or e-democracy in that it is a network that spreads cyber/e-democracy practices
BH: Is Demologue.com totally independent? How does it evolve financially speaking?
MJ: Actually, the financial side of Demologue.com is something I'm really proud of and something that had an impact on my later work. Basically, Demologue.com is almost free and completely self-financed by me. It costs me $20 a month for the live software hook-up that allows me to edit the site. I designed and created the site myself using Homestead's tools. All the projects I did were free because I and the collaborators volunteered their time. I also never did any fundraising for Demologue. That is the cool thing about the internet now. You can do a lot of cool things for free or almost free meaning that political activism over the internet is accessible to more and more people.
BH: One of the main goals of Demologue.com is to bring global democracy through a network of worldwide digital activists controlling their own government. Do you think this is achievable in the short term? If not, why?
MJ: Well, I think activists connecting themselves digitally is very important, but worldwide, very few people have access to the internet, thus the need for bridge activists. I do think that the internet can help spread activist practices and strengthen individual citizen campaigns, but if national transformation is going to occur, a lot of activity will occur offline.
BH: Your proposition to reach activists in the Global South, who sometimes live under autocratic governments, is to connect them with "bridge activists". How do you build and train this needed community of "bridge activists"?
MJ: Ha ha - yeah... I didn't really have a plan for training bridge activists. My idea was that some people in each country are internet savvy and that they would just step into the role of bridge activist. I don't know if this has happened or not, but I certainly can take no credit for it.
BH: Demologue.com is growing every day, how do you recruit "bridge activists" (and hopefully local activists as well)?
MJ: I don't recruit them and Demologue.com isn't growing. Actually, it's dead.
BH: Blogging about politics is a good way of taking part into the world's affairs, which other advantages do you find in running a personal Blog?
MJ: Blogging helps me to develop my ideas by writing them down. It forces me to think about my concerns on a daily basis. Also, it gives me an opportunity to share my concerns with the public.
BH: What are the benefits for the demosphere community in having a Wiki site?
MJ: Wikis are a good way for a disconnected group to create something collaboratively because group members can contribute to the wiki on their own schedule.
BH: Although some analysts say they are mainly places for entertainment, do you think that the cyber cafés (and the other public centres where a low cost Internet connection is available) are a good weapon against the digital divide in poorer countries?
MJ: Cyber cafés are incredibly important in increasing the number of people who can get online. I would guess that the vast majority of people who use the web worldwide use a shared public computer to get online, rather than having their own. Although most kids in cyber cafés do use the internet for entertainment, the possibilities for activism are there.
BH: Don't you think that the Northern political rhetoric about the digital divide is a kind of political slogan which purpose is to force the countries of the Global South to conform their economic system to the Northern one, for example, by inciting them to buy the same Northern softwares and hardwares?
MJ: Um, that's an interesting interpretation that I've never heard before. While I do believe that the digital divide is real, I think the global south will conquer it in their own way, not the way the North did. People in India aren't going to be buying thousand-dollar desktop computers. They're going to be accessing the internet from their cell phones.
BH: We have recently heard about very cheap « generic » laptops being sold in Africa and in India. Do you think that the individual access to these computers and their potential Internet connection might be better to bridge the gap than collective access in public centres? Wouldn't it be easier for peace activists in poorer countries to work individually with these cheap laptops rather than in public centres where they often sit next to people who have no specific militant mood.
MJ: When we in the North think "digital" we think "computer" but this is not the reality in the global south. The reality is cell phones. Millions of people have them. Millions of people are using them to organize, send messages, take video and pictures. We in the North love laptops, so we want to give them to the South, but the South is creating their own solutions. We need to follow there lead and help them do something that is sustainable and makes sense for them.
BH: My last question : How would you define the ideal digital society in a few words?
MJ: Equality of communication. Equality of information. Environmentally sustainable design. Low cost and high quality. Technology guided by the needs of people and not by trade and governments. Finally education technologies should be accessible to all.
Drayton Blackgrove interviews Scott Ogle & Brent Norvell for a piece on the Three Rivers Rambler he's making for his Youtube channel, Delay In Block Productions. 12-15-18
Interview with me in Bokeh Magazine this month.
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Trish Levido and Zoe Dobson have been undertaking oral history interviews, for the Mosman Local Studies Collection, for a number of years.
They presented a demonstration of an oral history interview to show how simple, stress free and entertaining an interview can be for all those involved.
Part of the 2010 National Trust Heritage Festival at Mosman Library, 9-24 April 2010.
The theme of this year’s festival allows us to recognise the contributions local people have made in shaping their community. To this end a series of workshops have been devised – Stories to Tell – to facilitate the recording of ‘everyman’s life’.
Kristina Mladenovic beat 6th seed Eugenie Bouchard 6-4, 6-4 in the first round. Day 3 of Roland Garros 2015.
This video is an interview with people who are in LGBT community. During the process of doing this interview, I have thought a lot, not only about this project but also my life. If the norm in our society is same-sex love, what kind of situation wills hetero face? Will it be similar to the homo face today? Also, I had a hard time to find people who are willing to grant the interview. Too many rejections made me frustrated at that time even though I can understand why they rejected me. Fortunately, I have found an organization called Quest, where is a place students are free to talk about sexual orientation in our college. Then I joined the meeting to introduce myself and my project. Finally, I did this interview with amazing supporters and learned plenty of inner thoughts from them, which are different from what I thought before and need time to let society understand them.
This month I got interviewed by a national (Dutch) photomagazine. This staged portrait picture of me was the headliner, got a 4 page publication, I'm kind of proud it.
(For my regular visitors; PM me for a copy of the article)
I'm a bit anal retentive. I didn't actually use half this stuff during the interview, but I'm glad I had it in front of me.
A mission participant from FAO is recording the interview with a beneficiary in Maw Ya Wadi, Maungdaw township, Rakhine State, Myanmar.
Read more about FAO and the floods in Myanmar.
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Hkun Lat. Editorial use only. Copyright FAO
Afghan National Army Maj. Gen. Khatoll Mohammedzai, anwsers questions from public affairs photojournalist Sgt. Christopher Harper during the lunch break at the Shafafiyat-sponsored International Women's Day event Mar. 7 (Photo by Maitre Christian Valverde, French Navy)
Interview with local news crew. Bachman Lake, Dallas Texas.
Paraplegics On Independent Nature Trips, AKA P.O.I.N.T.
Larissa Waters (Australian Greens Senator for Queensland and Andrew Bartlett (Australian Greens Senate Candidate for Queensland interviewed by Channel 9. In the city
Toshihiro Oshima (Tommy Oshima) was ever so kind to let Kai interview him with 10 questions and share with us some of his photos and videos. Read the full interview: 10 Q&A with Toshihiro Oshima - Virtuoso of Visual Creation
Check out Tommy on Flickr.
Note: portrait of Tommy in the banner is taken by Masanori Miyauchi
I gathered these photos this morning as I was awaiting a telephone interview for a new job. I really, really, really want this job and I was looking for some visual inspiration. Thank you, photographers for helping to stimulate the right mind-set going into the interview. I do believe that it went super well!! I'll find out if I made it to the next step sometime next week. Fingers crossed! (later update: didn't get the job .... waaaa!)
All the these photographs are the property of the talented photographers listed and linked below. I hope you take the time to explore their photostreams because they are chock full of incredible photos. Enjoy.
1. Hope for Angel...., 2. rays of hope.., 3. My 666th Photo! Pink Sherbet Photography Celebrating 1 Year on Flickr With a Smile and 400,000 Views, 4. YIPPEE! Happy Mothers Day!, 5. Success Happens Here, 6. Yeah Yeah Yippee Yippee Yah, 7. Untitled, 8. Hell Yes!, 9. HOPE a panel-- stained glass framed with recycled wood, 10. Wi$e-Guy Money Roll, 11. Surprised by Joy - Impatient as the Wind, 12. CONGRATULATIONS, 13. ~~ Joy ~~14. Not available15. Not available16. Not available
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I did an interview with Jess Gibson who is working on a "blockumentary" on the AFOL world. I also did a little blurb about my stick bug and tire octopus with Scott Decoteau and Roger Cameron of LEGO Club TV: club.lego.com/en-us/news/NewsDetails.aspx?id=125590
All three were awesome guys, I had a great time talking with them!
April, 1985 Interview Magazine with Shirley MacLaine. Publisher, Andy Warhol. Brittle condition.
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A Presidential Scholarship Interview event at the Grand Ballroom on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on February 8, 2020. (Jasmine River)