About Mediathread

Mediathread is a platform that supports close analysis of multimedia items. It allows users to upload media files (video/audio) or collect them from websites into a course-specific website. Once uploaded or collected into Mediathread, selections of multimedia items can be created, tagged, and incorporated into assignments.

Mediathread users are able to view video closely, clip video segments, attach annotations and tags to their selections, and organize clips for assignments that integrate written analysis with targeted selections of video. By facilitating the easy creation, organization, and incorporation of clips into written analysis, Mediathread significantly advances the role of multimedia in scholarly analysis.

Licensing Attribution

Mediathread was developed by Columbia University’s Center for Teaching and Learning. Since its launch in 2010, Mediathread has been used in over 1,000 courses at Columbia and is used by many different universities and research groups across the world, including Stanford University.

Columbia has licensed Mediathread's code under GPLv3 and its content under Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.