#SearchUnderOccupy: The Viral Media Lab

The Viral Media Lab, a collaborative online resource and multimedia event/website, evolved from a Fall 2011 course at The New School for Public Engagement. Participants in the VMLab generated real time documentation of the events at #OccupyWallStreet and nationwide #OWS protests via blog posts, videos, a Flickr photostream, twitter (hashtags #OWS #vmlab) and Facebook and Tumblr. The site continues on as a blog source and archive of viral media for social change.

This online gallery summarizes the #Occupy contributions, with a selection of original photos from the ViralMediaLab Flickrstream; original videos; and a remix response to the Pepper Spray Cop meme. Following these works are a series of Citizen Journalism posts on #Occupy topics, from #OccupyLegos to #OccupyLove. Click on the titles to read and view posts in more detail. Feel free to comment….Be contagious!

#OccupyPhotos, by Clarence Elie-Rivera:

Goldman Sachs Protest November 8, 2011

#OccupySignage, by Clarence Elie-Rivera

Liberty Park November 3, 2011

http://www.flickr.com/photos/69212447@N08/6334946364/in/photostream/

#OccupyVideos, original #OWS videos from the #vmlab

OWS: A Conversation with Jeff Smith

Video by Samarah Daher

OWS – A Conversation With Jeff Smith – 10.20.2011 from Samarah Daher on Vimeo.

Liberty Park: October 14

Video by Kathleen Sweeney

The Night of the “Bat Signal” 

Video by Craig Peugh

Click here for more info about the “bat signal.”

Occupy Wall Street Man

Video by Arthur Owens

A Video Snapshot: What Makes OCCUPY Work?

Video by Linda Ogawa

#OccupyMemeRemix

Artwork by Joseph Weissgold

#OccupyLiveTwitter, a Twitter screenshot from the night of November 15th, live from Zuccotti Park via @stephspiro:

Click here for more from the #OWS Twitterfeed archive.

#OccupyCitizenJournalism, a collection of #OWS-themed blog posts from the #vmlab

*click on the highlighted title to view the entire post.

#OccupyMemesColliding

#OccupyBen&Jerrys

#OccupyLegos

#OccupyLove

#OccupyCowbirdSaga

#OccupyKnowYourMeme

#OccupyOscars

#OccupyHistory

#OccupyMockupy

#OccupyHotness

Hot Chicks of Occupy Wall Street from Steven Greenstreet on Vimeo.

#OccupyImages

#OccupyBatSignal

#OccupyRemix

#OccupyBooks

#OccupyEverywhere

#OccupyOrSquat

 #OccupyDirectAction

#OccupyFilm

#OccupyTheCulturalDialogue

OCCUPY NOW from Arin Crumley on Vimeo.

#OccupyMeme

#OccupyInterview

#OccupyPublicOpinion

#OccupyYourConcern

#OccupyTheUnderground

Video Games - E3 2012 - The Loop

#OccupyAcrossGenerationsAndClasses

Kathleen Sweeney

Kathleen Sweeney, author of Maiden USA, is the founder/director of The Viral Media Lab. A media artist, web content producer, author, and member of the Media Studies Faculty at The New School in New York City, she consults on creativity, storytelling, youth media and girl culture, and has worked with countless artists, writers and non-profits to craft their multimedia DNA.

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