Allied Media Projects

Media strategies for a more just and creative world
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About AMP

  1. Allied Media Projects cultivates media strategies for a more just and creative world.

  2. From the intersection of communications, art, technology, education and social justice, we share and develop models for transforming ourselves and our communities. Read our mission and network principles.

  3. AMP organizes the annual Allied Media Conference. Our local programs innovate media-based practices in education, economic development and community organizing.

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Allied Media Conference

  1. The Allied Media Conference is a collaborative laboratory of media-based organizing strategies for transforming our world, held every Summer in Detroit.

  2. The AMC is a network of networks – social justice organizers, community technologists, transformative artists, educators, entrepreneurs, and many others – all using media in innovative ways.

  3. The 15th annual AMC is June 20 - June 23, 2013 in Detroit. Be a part of it: REGISTER TODAY!

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Detroit Future

  1. AMP’s local programs innovate practices in education, economic development and community organizing. We are a founding member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition.

  2. Detroit Future Media teaches core digital media competencies, and their application in community organizing, education, and entrepreneurship.

  3. Through Detroit Future Schools we integrate digital media arts in the classroom.

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AMPtalk

  1. AMPTalk is a discussion and organizing system for the Allied Media Projects network.

  2. We use AMPtalk to coordinate, share, and document Allied Media Conference sessions, tracks, network gatherings, and practice spaces.

  3. Start a discussion on the AMPtalk Newswire or share job postings, grant opportunities, and calls for submissions on the Opportunities board.

Contact

  1. Contact us, we'd love to hear from you.

VIDEO | Live streaming schedule of AMC2012 sessions

Jun 29, 2012

Our volunteer documentation crew will be live streaming select sessions of the Allied Media Conference. See below for the weekend's schedule and links to view, or bookmark the channel here.

Friday

9:00 - 10:30
Community Media Policy & the New Majority

11:00 - 12:30
Power of Data: Analysis & Visualization
Curriculum for Healthy Digital Ecologies
Youth Participatory Action Research on School Closure Impact

2:00 - 3:30
Fabulosity: Queer as an Organizing Model
Prison Phone Justice Campaign
RapidSkill Remix

4:00 - 5:30
Tu Tierra TV: Communication Across Borders
Performance Fishbowl: Art & Organizing
DiscoTechs UNITE! Part 1

5:30 - 7:00
AMC2012 Opening Ceremony: Experiments in the Species Self

Saturday

9:00 - 10:30
Radio as an organizing tool
Re-imagining Education in Urban Spaces
Mobile Justice: The Next Frontier

11:00 - 12:30
Culture Shift: One Story at a Time
Batphone 4: Disaster, Resistance & The Win
Art, Gentrification, and Our Broken Beautiful Cities*

2:00 - 3:30
Beatboxing
Civic Hacking for Self Governance
Worker-Owned Webmaking: Tech Co-ops

4:00 - 5:30
Your Media Rights: A Game Show
Performance Fishbowl: Identity & Community
Securing Our Online Communications

Sunday

10:00 - 11:30
Science of the Oppressed as Artivism
Future of Multimedia Community Centers

1:00 - 2:30
Veteran and GI Resistance
Draw Dropping Underwear Making
Research as Rebellion: The Detroit Geographic Expedition and Institute

2:30 - 4:00
Storytelling for Change
Making Magical Amulets

4:30 - 5:30
Closing Celebration

see the comments section below for updates to the streaming schedule.