[spectre] Issue Crawler News [u]

[Geert Lovink [c]]

> A N N O U N C E M E N T
>
> The Issue Crawler (issuecrawler.net) is Web network location and
> visualization software for issue professionals. Enter URLs of
> organizations working in an issue area, and an issue network is
> returned.
>
> The Issue Crawler Back-End Movie is a demonstration of how the Issue
> Crawler works. The movie is also a narrative of a research project
> conducted with the Issue Crawler and allied tools. The movie focuses
> on the implications of global civil society's 'issue drift.' As
> global civil society and intergovernmental organizations move from
> issue to issue, from place to place and from forum to forum, the
> question is, do they remember what is happening on the ground?
>
> http://movies.issuecrawler.net
>
> Streaming and iPod versions available. A large windows media file
> (.wmv) also may be downloaded for full-screen viewing.
>
> The Issue Crawler movies page includes a clip of the Issue Ticker
> (infoid.org), explained by Bruno Latour at the ZKM, March 2005.
>
> A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S
> Richard Rogers and the Govcom.org Foundation (govcom.org) would like
> to acknowledge the generous support of the Center for Arts and Media
> (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany. The movie was made by Crooked Line, with
> contributions by Creative Industries and Anderemedia, organizations
> all based in Amsterdam. With Govcom.org and Anderemedia, Sonologic
> (The Hague) provided the software, and Noortje Marres furnished the
> issue as well as significant findings. Marc Tuters produced the Issue
> Crawler exhibition ("The Places of Issues"), where the movie was
> first shown: "Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy,"
> exhibition curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, ZKM, Karlsruhe,
> Germany, March-October 2005, http://makingthingspublic.zkm.de/.
>
> Exhibition catalogue: Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel (eds.), Making
> Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
> 2005, http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?
> ttype=2&tid=10595.