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I enjoyed all three viewings this week. I loved how they showed the amazing work possible with audio. Each was thought provoking and offered really unique ways to listen. But occasionally I feel lazy when watching the more interactive viewings. Do I really have to click so many times to get the story? Which should […]  Exploring the selections for this week, I find myself considering how digital media might allow storytellers to provide more direct access to the narratives they are attempting to highlight. Particularly with Public Secrets and Highrise, I’m struck by the subtle way in which the websites frame their subjects’ voices: as viewers, we lead ourselves between […] I went from the Bubbling Springs of Mono Lake to the California Correctional Women’s Facility in the space of 20 minutes. I traveled from peace and beauty, to fear and ugliness and from preservation to destruction. If you were to ask me which site I prefer, I’m not sure I could answer. The contrasts – […] As I promised, I interviewed jesikah maria ross today. We began by discussing the origins of “Saving the Sierra,” in 2006, and how she and co-creator radio producer Catherine Stifter pioneered transmedia before there was a name for it, and thus began a completely unique community engagement process using media among the Sierra communities. […] In what is probably a weird case of serendipity or happenstance, a few weeks ago I spent part of my dinner thinking about aporias (perhaps best described as a point of undecidability or a philosophical puzzle). Earlier that day, I had found a copy of Jacques Derrida’s Given Time, in which the late French philosopher […] Engaging the community can be a little like going deep into a jungle that has various trails going every which way. The discoveries off the beaten paths can be rewarding but they can also have their pitfalls. Sometimes, we can just simply be befuddled and lose our way. This is when a decent compass would […] In this weeks reading from Spreadable Media, Jenkins speaks at length about the history of participatory culture and how it continues to shape our online experiences and their outward projection and influence in society. Jenkins writes,“Current debates about participatory culture emerge from a much longer history of attempts to generate alternative platforms for grassroots communication”. […] Collaboration, the act of working together towards a common goal. All of us have had to collaborate with someone in our live, hell we are all doing it right now in this very class with our group projects. But collaboration in participatory media must also involve the people who we are trying to reach with […] Of all of the projects on the Saving The Sierra site, I loved the adorable poem by the Grass Valley Charter School 4th grade class the most. They wrote it after a rafting trip, and while exploring the story map, this one struck me most because I started to think: if we invest in making […] Even though the Saving the Sierra project websites aesthetics felt a little archaic, I thought the methods for community building and tacking the community’s issues were incredibly forward thinking. Not only was there the task of figuring out how to preserve the culture, economy and environment of the Sierra Nevada community, project coordinators had an […] |
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