Title: MALAYSIA’s Greatest Hits 2
Time: 5pm – 7PM
MALAYSIA’s GREATEST HITS 2 is a YouTube video festival programmed by:
– Amir Muhammad (filmmaker / writer / publisher)
– Imri Nasution (filmmaker)
– Liew Seng Tat (filmmaker / Rumah Angkat-er)
– Nor Fathin Ahmad & Rahmah Pauzi (students, PopIN & Rancangan Yang Memang Terkini)
Since the first video (‘Me at the Zoo’) was posted on YouTube in April 2005, the site has become the world’s most popular online video community, allowing millions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos.
Each curator will programme 30 minutes of Malaysia-centric material from YouTube, identifying emergent patterns, themes and genres to see what-how-why Malaysians are making and uploading.
From the first GREATEST HITS last week (programmed by Chi Too, Faiq Syazwan Kuhiri, Hardesh Singh & June Tan), we watched old Malaysian ads, Parliamentary shouting matches, spoofs, satirical songs, and much more!
Come for more Malaysian-made brilliance and nonsense. We bring the videos. You bring your date, geng & kacang!
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Title: Social Media 4 Machas
Time: 8.30 – 10.30pm
a conversation with Grace Chin (PopWire), Hasbeemasputra Abu Bakar (Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia) & Zurairi Abd Rahman (Unscientific Malaysia).
Bringing together 3 social media projects that have been initiated over the past year, this conversation will present groups & individuals who are harnessing virtual connections for powerful forms of engagement, as opposed to just a medium of staying on touch with friends and peeking into their daily activities.
Facilitated by PopTeeVee’s Hardesh Singh, this event will also speculate on the recent and upcoming impact that social media will have on news, journalism, activism, collaboration and innovation.
Grace Chin is the Editor of PopWire, a newswire of information and ideas crowd-sourced from the blogosphere and social media networks. She was formerly a writer with The Edge.
Hasbeemasputra Abu Bakar is an activist with Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia, a non-racial, non-partisan initiative for the betterment of the nation that emerged out of discussions between bloggers in the post-March 8 landscape.
Zurairi Abd Rahman is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Unscientific Malaysia, a Malaysian community that promotes science, scepticism & freethought. They cover issues of science, religion, superstitions, civil rights, supernatural hogwash and other poppycock.