Interactive discussions @ Elevate Festival 2011
Monday,10 Oct 11 09:44
Communication in the 21st century
Communication channels and interaction are getting more and more attention at the Elevate Festival. In addition to the live-videostreaming project “Mediachannel”, which has been successfully established a few years ago, the festival features a new microblogging system called status.elevate.at, which is comparable to Twitter.
Twelve discourse-events will be broadcast live on the Mediachannel. Audiences from all around the globe have a possibility to watch the events live. The Austrian TV channel okto.tv is broadcasting six discourse-events as an official media-partner of the festival.
By using Twitter, Diaspora or status.elevate.at the audience can comment on the events. Every event has its own #hashtag, to characterize the postings – before, during and after the festival. The #hashtags work like a code to filter messages out of the communication channels. Marked questions and opinions of visitors will be sent to an interaction-manager, who will pass them on to the moderator.
The general festival hashtag is #E11fest. Event-specific webpages, where detailed information about the guests and topics can be found (for example visit: http://2011.elevate.at/e11tech) match the names of the hashtags.
The Elevate-Team has established the Mediachannel and the microblogging system on the website and opened up the communication channels of the 21st century.
