Humanitarianism 2.0

人道主义2.0诞生于派·詹姆斯·汤普森为AHRC资助的“代替战争”项目所做的工作，该项目目前正在完成后续拨款，为战争和灾区的艺术家创建了一个在线平台。《代替战争》的前提是，当地艺术对战争的反应为寻求通过国际艺术应对危机的人们提供了宝贵的鼓舞人心的资源。正在开发的新平台扩展了这一点，为共享、存档和展示这些专业知识提供了一种手段。H20倡议建立在这项工作的基础上，扩大了它，以探索更广泛的社交媒体创新应用于动乱、灾难或战争的情况。虽然它牢牢植根于艺术和文化实践，但它现在扩大了范围，与过去五年出现的一系列不同的社会和文化习俗联系起来，作为对危机的当代紧张反应的新形式。例如：1.脸书参与阿拉伯之春--从突尼斯开始，遍及整个区域，活动家、艺术家和公民记者利用社交媒体的力量记录、链接和宣传反对旧制度的力量，报道并代表其区域内的变化。支持绘制海地地震地图的短信和推文--2010年地震发生后不久，短信技术和推文被用来报告当地情况和地图需求，最终被联合国救灾协调机构接收。哥伦比亚麦德林市的数字化--自2006年以来，麦德林市当局开展了一项雄心勃勃的计划，将该市数字化，以应对战后和与毒品有关的暴力。推特和英国2011年的骚乱--围绕社交媒体在挑起、记录、有时打击2011年夏季骚乱中的作用的争议。H20试图通过提供一个论坛，让Web2.0技术的先驱与人道主义救援专家进行富有成效的对话，并从这些不同但相关的倡议中学习。H20将汇集一个跨学科团队--人道主义、电子研究和互动技术方面的专家以及非高等教育专业组织来开发该项目。这一群体--其中许多人已经开创了社交媒体应对动乱局势的先河--然后将探讨将新形式的社交、互动和用户主导的技术应用于人道主义危机局势时出现的机会、潜力和问题。

Humanitarianism 2.0 emerges from PI James Thompson's work on the AHRC funded 'In Place of War' project, which is currently completing a follow on grant creating an online platform for artists in war and disaster zones. The premise of 'In Place of War' was that local artistic response to war provides a valuable and inspirational resource to people seeking to respond to crisis through the arts internationally. The new platform in development extends this to provide a means for that expertise to be shared, archived and exhibited.The H20 initiative builds on this work, expanding it to explore a much wider range of innovations in social media applied to situations of upheaval, disaster or war. While firmly based within the arts and cultural practice, it now broadens the remit to connect with a range of different social and cultural practices that have emerged in the last five years as new forms of present tense responses to crisis. For example: 1. Facebook involvement in the Arab Spring - starting in Tunisia and spreading across the region, activists, artists and citizen journalists have reported on and represented the changes within their region using the power of social media to document, link and promote opposition to the old regimes.2. Texts and tweets that supported the mapping of the Haiti earthquake - soon after the 2010 earthquake SMS technology and tweets were used to report on local situations and map needs, eventually being picked up by UN disaster relief coordination authorities.3. The digitisation of the Colombian city of Medellin - since 2006 the city authorities in Medellin have embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise their city as a response to the post-war and drug related violence.4. Twitter and the UK 2011 riots - controversies surrounded the role of social media in both provoking, recording and at times combatting the unrest in the summer of 2011.H20 seeks to link and learn from these diverse but related initiatives by providing a forum through which pioneers of web 2.0 technologies can be brought into productive dialogue with experts in humanitarian relief. H20 will bring together an interdisciplinary team - experts in humanitarianism, e-research, and interactive technologies as well as non-HE professional organisations to develop the project. This group, many of whom have already pioneered social media responses to situations of unrest, will then explore the opportunities, potentials and questions that arise when new forms of social, interactive and user-led technologies are applied to situations of humanitarian crisis.