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For a cleaner and safer Internet…

Cleanternet.org is a campaign to support European Commissioner Cecilia Malmström in her plans to introduce a website blocking system in Europe.All European countries must be forced to fight for a cleaner and safer Internet. The video is based on a German zensursula video. The producer of the video made several videos that became famous in [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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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!) [...]
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