Tag Archives: video
The animated President of the European Council
Do you remember our little series with the terrible name “How to explain a political process with a video?“ No? Well, today, it is time to revive this category as I found a new animated EU video about the role of the President of the European Council produced by the TV Newsroom of the Council [...]
Posted in History Also tagged animation, European Council, Institutional reform, lisbon treaty, online video, President of the European Council 3 Comments
Us Now: Governance 2.0
“Us Now” is an interesting documentary about “the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet.” (via) Although most examples are well known (at least among “political web 2.0 geeks” …), the film provides a good overview about different collaborative internet projects and how politics might change in the future: In a world in which [...]
Posted in Humanities & Social Sciences, internet Also tagged collaboration, documentary, governance, government 2.0, internet, social networking 1 Comment
EU/EP videos for Dummies
… not in a bad sense. More like in this book series (and there is even a EU dummy book!)… A couple of days ago the Austrian version of this video was all over twitter. Now, the producers fulfilled their promise and released an English version with a nice Austrian accent. (hat-tip: europeum). Great visuals [...]
Posted in European Debate Also tagged EU, European Parliament, European Parliament Elections, online video 3 Comments
Visualising the Credit Crisis
Some lazy blogging – Another video in our irregular series (see here for part I and part II) on how to explain political issues with an online video.This time a visualization of the credit crisis: The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis. The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the [...]
Posted in International Politics Also tagged banking, banks, credit crisis, economy, internet, mortgages, online video, property 2 Comments
How to explain a political process with a video? (II)
Here we go again. The second part of my little collection of online videos that explain political processes. Indeed, this seems to develop into a little series of posts. (check out the first part here). This time the topic is even more complex than last time: It is about the conflict in the Middle East. [...]
Posted in International Politics Also tagged Israel, middle east conflict, online video, Palestine, political process, politics 2 Comments
How to explain a political process with a video?
The brilliant people at Common Craft just released a great video that explains the US elections in ‘plain English’! If you don’t know their other videos (mostly about internet issues) you really missed something and I strongly recommend them to you. Basically they “make complex ideas easy to understand using short and simple videos.”(mission statement!) [...]
Posted in European Debate Also tagged education, elections, EP elections, EU, European Union, online video, politics, US elections 4 Comments
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