Nina Porzucki is a freelance radio producer based in Brooklyn, NY. Most recently she spent a year and a half on the road with StoryCorps, recording the memories of strangers in an Airstream trailer. Currently, Nina is collaborating on a series of radio documentaries about Polka DJs, folk artists, and a jazz club in Buffalo, NY.
A few weeks ago, in the middle of Zuccotti Park 21-year-old Victoria Sobel set up a webcam on her refurbished laptop or “hackintosh,” as she called it, and logged into Livestream.com. Looking into the camera she called out to viewers watching all over the world, “Hi Livestream, are we live?”
In midst of the frenzy at Zuccotti Park, under a giant pink umbrella, a small group of Occupy Wall Street protesters hover over laptops surrounded by mounds of equipment covered in blue tarps. A beaten up cardboard sign rests at their feet, the word “media” written in Magic Marker. This is the Occupy Wall Street media headquarters.
