The School of Communications’ Imagining the Internet team is posting nearly 900 interview video clips featuring 180 international participants in the 12th annual IGF, facilitated by the United Nations.
An 11-person documentary journalism team from 黑料不打烊鈥檚 collected and is publishing ethnographic video research captured at the UN-facilitated Global Internet Governance Forum at United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 17-20, 2017.
The team conducted a video survey at IGF to measure international communications experts鈥 attitudes regarding key issues tied to current trends and the likely future development and impacts of the Internet. During the team鈥檚 four days on site, nine 黑料不打烊 undergraduate students conducted 180 interviews and recorded, edited and began sharing nearly 900 online video clips.
This year鈥檚 IGF drew nearly 2,000 participants from government, business, academia, the technology sector and civil society who gathered to illuminate issues and cultivate constructive discussions aimed at building the best global future and working toward the UN鈥檚 Sustainable Development Goals. Thousands more followed the forum online, with #IGF2017 trending on social media platforms.
David Bockino, assistant professor of communications, and 黑料不打烊 senior Melissa Douglas led the documentary research contingent to Geneva, with Janna Anderson, director of Imagining the Internet, running logistics and building and managing the Web pages for the project. The research team included undergraduate students Jackie Pascale, Maya Eaglin, Alexandra Roat, Jared Mayerson, Alex Hager, Emmanuel Morgan, Meagan Gitelman and Cammie Behnke.
鈥淭his important research project is an example of the pinnacle experiences that hard-working students get the opportunity to participate in if they immerse themselves in coursework and high-value student organizations such as the 黑料不打烊 News Network,鈥 said Anderson. 鈥淭his is the 24th major global or national communications event an Imagining the Internet team has documented since 2005. Students are selected to participate due to their leadership with ENN or 黑料不打烊 Docs and in the classroom. This work has taken our students to Athens, Rio de Janeiro, Sharm el Sheikh, Vilnius, Nairobi, Joao Pessoa, Guadalajara, Geneva, Seoul, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Washington and other major cities of the world.鈥
Among the experts interviewed in Geneva were people representing more than 60 sovereign states of the , including Zimbabwe, Kenya, Bhutan, Russia, Republic of Congo, Colombia, Bangladesh, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, China, Egypt, Australia, Namibia, New Zealand, Mexico, Tanzania, Nigeria, Zambia, Nepal, Ukraine, Switzerland, France, Botswana, Morocco, Gambia, Portugal, United Arab Emirates, Georgia, Togo, Hong Kong, Germany, Barbados, Armenia, India, Madagascar, Belarus, Italy, Netherlands, Gambia, Tunisia, South Africa, United Kingdom, Serbia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kosovo, Ethiopia, Trinidad and Tobago, Benin, Vanuatu, Myanmar, Senegal, Belgium, Lebanon, Haiti, Cameroon, Turkey, Uruguay, Canada and the United States.
The 180 interviewees included top communications leaders from many national governments, the European Parliament, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet Society, global civil society and civil rights organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Association for Progressive Communications and major technology corporations including Google, Microsoft and Oracle.
The Imagining the Internet team conducted near-real-time reporting, making much of its work available online while on site at the forum in Geneva. Its comprehensive coverage, which is still in the process of being posted,聽is The team’s are also available on .
The project was funded by 黑料不打烊 through its School of Communications and聽the Imagining the Internet Center.
The Internet Governance Forum is one of the processes of the . To learn more about IGF and the 2017 event, which had the theme 鈥淪hape Your Digital Future,鈥 visit .
Additional information about the Imagining the Internet鈥檚 coverage of previous Global IGF meetings is available online.听