Week 2: Jamie Schaub – Human Rights and Engaged Media

This week’s online viewing assignment brought me back to a time in my life when I was a lot more ‘awake’ with things that were happening around the world. There was a time in my life when I participated in demonstrations to fight against blood for oil, apartheid, and police brutality (back in the early […]

Week 1: Lauren Marie Paterson – Transmedia, Scribe Video, and Reading Response

I noticed a few main similarities between the Transmedia hangout discussion and the Precious Places work being done at Scribe Video in Philidelphia.

The first, was the overall theme of story – particularly, personal stories. Louisa Dantes talked about amassing footage during the rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, using “layered collaborative narratives” from locals to spark […]