press coverage and public speaking engagements regarding projects i've been involved with and my MSc research on hackers.
RADIO INTERVIEW: BBC OUTRIDERS ON HACKERS
In October of 2011, I was interviewed by Jamillah Knowles on the BBC radio show ‘Outriders’ (podcast link here) regarding the results of my MSc research on gender in hacker cultures. We spoke about how senses of equality and gendered experiences have changed for Millennial-aged women in these spaces and I outlined some key insights I had gained during the ethnographic process.
LECTURE: CHAOS COMMUNICATION CAMP
In August of 2011, I delivered a lecture (live video stream here) at Chaos Communication Camp in Finowfurt, Germany. The camp, held once every four years, is “an international, five-day open-air event for hackers and associated life-forms” which provides a “relaxed atmosphere for free exchange of technical, social, and political ideas”. My talk was centered on my in-progress MSc Digital Anthropology research on the role of gender in hacker cultures. I also attempted to engage the hacker-based audience in discussion about their own opinions on the topic, and was lucky enough to receive a great deal of extremely useful insight from those who participated. My colleagues at the Open Knowledge Foundation were kind enough to go to the camp and attend the lecture with me in a show of support, which helped a great deal since I had massive stage fright beforehand!
VIDEO: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON VIRTUAL OPEN DAY
In March of 2011, I was a part of a one-hour “Virtual Open Day” video event (link here) for University College London’s Digital Anthropology MSc as one of the program’s postgraduate student committee representatives along with staff and program advisors. The event was intended for prospective applicants from outside the UK who otherwise would not have been able to visit the program’s physical “open days”, and it was streamed over the Web with me and the other student representatives fielding live questions from participants via Twitter, Skype and Facebook.
VIDEO: QUALITATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY FIELDKITS IN LONDON
In March of 2011, I appeared in a short video (clip here) about a series of portable video fieldkits used for qualitative research in the MSc Digital Anthropology programme I was a part of at University College London. The video, coordinated by Kevin Biderman and Lane DeNicola, was intended to display how the fieldkits had been used by the students and programme members, as well as how such equipment could be used by other anthropologists interested in using new technologies in their ethnographic work.
ARTICLE FEATURE: #MEDIA2010 AT PODiUM CONFERENCE
In February of 2011, I was invited by Andy Miah and Jennifer M Jones to attend the PODiUM Olympics Conference for Higher Education in London as a #media2010 citizen media representative due to my earlier attempts during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics to promote engagement through the Fresh Media Collective. A short story about our participation in this event was published here.
FACILITATION: FRESH MEDIA AT CHANGE CAMP
In June of 2010, I co-facilitated an unconference session at ChangeCamp in Vancouver with Amanda McCuaig about why some of us had created media/arts collective Fresh Media, and how the collaborative remixing of media cultures was so important for Millennial-aged Vancouverites. We also spoke about Fresh Media’s then-upcoming public salon series, Remixology. Photo credits: Jenny Lee Silver.
VIDEO FEATURE: DOCUMENTARY ABOUT CANADA’S WORLD
In 2010, I appeared in a documentary by Sarah Van Borek that told the story of Canada’s World, a 3-year citizens’ dialogue project in Vancouver housed at the Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University, which engaged nontraditional voices across the nation in Canadian foreign policy issues. I worked as the Online Community Facilitator for Canada’s World during the last stage of the project, building capacity for participation using new technologies and online organizing campaigns. In the film (clip here) I speak about this work along with the project’s previous Online Community Facilitator, Reilly Yeo.
FACILITATION: BC COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION WORKSHOP
In March of 2010 I led an interactive social media workshop with Shauna Sylvester for a group of BCCIC (BC Council for International Cooperation) members through my work as the Online Community Facilitator for foreign policy project Canada’s World. The focus of this session was to engage participants in learning how to use online community building to maximize Open Source Web interactions for their international development-based organizations. It was a hands-on session where I explained step-by-step how to use social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook and provided examples of successful campaigns, and participants cited a high level of satisfaction regarding knowledge and skills gained during the workshop.
VIDEO FEATURE: YOUNG PEOPLE AND OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES
In December of 2009, four of the core organizers of ForeignPolicyCamp, all under the age of 32, were asked by Vancouver-based TV show The List to be filmed in an interview (video here) about young people and Open Source technology, and how the use of new collaborative tools can improve Canadian’s experiences of domestic foreign policy. In the interview, I talk about what Open Source is all about and why, as a young person of the Millenial generation, I am inspired by hybrid camps like ForeignPolicyCamp.
INTERVIEW: WEB 2.0 AND SOCIAL CHANGE
In May of 2009, I was featured in a piece entitled “Kaitlyn Braybrooke: Achieving Social Change Through Web 2.0” written by Jorge LeClair about my work as Founding Editor of VELOCITY and my focus on engaging young people of the Millennial generation through social media. I discuss why it’s important to disprove the myth that our generation is apathetic. This interview was published in various online formats.
ART FEATURE: RAIN ZINE
I always say that I need to do less digital and more physical art, and so I was glad to have the opportunity in 2010 to contribute a large-scale (oil pastel-based) art canvas created in honour of the 2004 anti imperialism and Iraq war protests that happened across the globe and galvanized so many young activists at the time (including myself!) to be featured (link here) in the third printed issue of Vancouver-based Rain Zine.
