The questions that I have raised over the past quarter have been majority around how these newly emerging digital media projects are effective in creating social change. My inquiry stems not from pessimism but rather my desire to understand the recipe for driving real change through project curation and communications, especially when metrics around social […]
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November 27th, 2013 | Tags: participatory media, social change, Spreadability, Spreadable Media, transmedia | Category: Week 9 | 2 comments In reviewing the week’s online assignment, Love Lunch Community what really stood out to me in its difference from many of the other digital media sites, is that it provides solicitous attention to the viewers in how they can become an engaged participant and how that participation can be utilized as an action for change. […] November 1st, 2013 | Tags: open source, participant engagement, short films, social change, social media, Spreadability, Spreadable Media | Category: Week 5 | One comment In my continued curiosity in activism art and art for social change is its effectiveness to create social change. What I thought powerful about the digital storytelling organizations such as Scribe, Mapping Memories and Center for Digital Storytelling is that they all maintained a commonality in providing a framework that the art present an issue […] October 25th, 2013 | Tags: art for social change, Avant-garde art, digital culture, participatory media, social change | Category: Week 4 | 3 comments In looking at the work plan for this weeks assignment, I was drawn to the sentence “These approaches (stories) reveal deep relationship-building over time — skills that documentary filmmakers and community-based artists have been developing for decades, and are now taking online to mix old and new methodologies.” I realized I wasn’t familiar with the […] October 16th, 2013 | Tags: art for social change, Center for Digital Storytelling, context, digital culture, digital storytelling, mapping memories, new media, participatory media, process and product, social change, storytelling | Category: Assignments, Week 3 | 2 comments Unanticipated advances in technology over the past decade have been huge advantages to non-profit organizations like Witness and Engage Media. In 20 years, Witness has gone from the archaic Sony HandyCam to top-of-the line video and audio equipment and the unlimited potential of the Internet. For a laugh, check out this ad for the Sony […] October 10th, 2013 | Tags: Engage Media, HandyCam, social change, video, WITNESS | Category: Assignments, Week 2 | One comment Media for social change was what we had to look into this week. Social change is a difficult thing to achieve, because it takes the changing of a mass group of people to really make something significant happen. But that does not stop several highly devoted individuals from making the attempt at changing the world. […] October 10th, 2013 | Tags: EngageMedia, social change, WITNESS | Category: Assignments, Week 2 | One comment 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, […] October 10th, 2013 | Tags: art for social change, democracy, human rights, participatory media, social change, TED | Category: Week 2 | Leave a comment One of the themes that stood out to me and piqued my interest in the Transmedia hangout discussion and the Precious Places work is the question of staying power; how to engage with the audience so that you activate a call to action or keep them involved in an issue after the delivery of the […] October 7th, 2013 | Tags: Assignments, behavior change, paradigm shift, precious places, social change | Category: Assignments, Week 1 | 4 comments Social change. Influence. Making a difference. These are the themes that, in my mind, bind all our Week 1 readings and viewings together. Storytelling that affects change. One of the main purposes of Scribe’s Community Visions project and Precious Places videos is to give voice to people and communities that have not had a voice […] October 4th, 2013 | Tags: precious places, Scribe, Siegel, social change, transmedia | Category: Uncategorized | One comment My name is Lindsey and I am in the Strategic Communications program as I have recently moved on from life as an entrepreneur in order to broaden my platform in sustainability communications. While I landed a great transition job working in sustainability communications at a local venue, am eager to expand my work to include […] October 3rd, 2013 | Tags: convergence, personal introduction, social change, terminology, Week 1 | Category: Week 1 | 5 comments |
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