Week 2: Lindsey Newkirk Response to Readings

As Kelley Matheson pointed out in her TEDx talk “Witness Your Environment”, the thought behind Witness’s goals is that “If we could hear people’s stories it would create empathy and create meaningful change”. My curiosity is how different strategic approaches to the videos accomplish this. Since we don’t have access to those strategies (audience, goals, […]

Week 2: Natalie Henry Bennon, response to Engage/Witness viewings

This post focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of Engage Media and Witness’s websites/content, and how they both support democracy.

The Engage Media website’s strength is that it has a ton of content. However, I think the weakness is a lot of it appears disorganized and thus is hard to really delve in to. And […]