Week 1- Katelyn Black – Response to Viewings and Readings

Multimedia. Transmedia. Convergence. Connecting Platforms. Storytelling on Steroids. There are a myriad of ways to analyze and contextualize how communicators work together to bring multiple platforms to their audiences for interaction, growth, and change. Oftentimes, the restraints of defining a project in the simplest terminology can choke the project’s free-form and creativity–rendering it less effective. […]

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Week 1: Amanda Eckerson

My name is Amanda Eckerson and I’m a co-founder and multimedia producer at B Media Collective/Portland. I do other things, but you should understand BMC to understand me:

B Media Collective is a community-based video art collective that uses documentary films, political remix videos, and skill-building workshops to catalyze collaborative work for social justice. Among […]

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Week 1 – Workshop Announcement

Just a note to let you know that we will begin our Saturday session tomorrow (Oct 5) promptly at 10am in the 3rd floor classroom in the Turnbull Center, White Stag Building.

Our guest speaker, Louis Massiah, Executive Director of the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia (see bio on Week One link) will be skyping […]

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Week One: Omar Aldakheel

 

Hi everyone, my name is Omar and I come from a different part of the World where multimedia was the main reason of exposing all governments’ corruption and the main reason that started all revolutions.

 

I’m Middle Eastern, From Kuwait particularly and in the past three years I either witnessed or had a […]

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Week One: Adam King Introduction

Hey there everybody. I’m a little late to the game here as I still get this whole duckweb ball rolling, but quite clearly I’m taking this class so I can get a stronger grasp on participating with media, and antecedently with my participatory media class.

Throughout my undergrad years, I had never considered journalism as […]

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Week 1: Emily Priebe Introduction

My first book was published at the age of five to sparkling reviews. Of course the cliché tale of damsels in distress was crafted in the crudely shaped, pencil letters of a kindergartner, on lined sheets of paper awkwardly stapled together; but nonetheless it was a hit. And if the adoring approbation of your parents […]

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Week 1: Joel Arellano – Reading/viewing response

“Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.”

― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

In “Burying the Hatchet,” Lee Siegel writes that […]

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Week 1: Kevin Hartman – Response to Readings/Videos

I made the mistake of powering through all of the reading and the videos and now find myself swimming in the deep end of the thought pool.

First, the videos and article on Scribe video and Precious Places. As a videographer I was incredibly inspired by this initiative. When we discuss transmedia and the impact […]

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Week 1: Kevin Gaboury – Reading/viewing response

After viewing the discussion on transmedia storytelling, I had a couple of thoughts I wanted to share. The first is on whether video games can have a social impact. There’s no denying the popularity and huge influence of video games. I think the new Grand Theft Auto game made more than $800 million in sales […]

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Week 1: Joel Arellano – Introduction

Bio

In high school, I tried mock trial and loved the ability to present a narrative on my own terms, crafting allegory and conjuring associations designed to leave the jury with a clear vision of our story. From then on I began to consider law school seriously, because I wanted to pursue the […]

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