New Media Unrest

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 […]

Week 7: Jarratt Taylor

What is true collaboration? And how can you spot it in a project? When a project is neatly wrapped up and presented to an audience through film, audio, or a website, it’s possible that the collaboration that created the project will get lost. In the “about” section we will read only about the creators of […]

Response to Readings and Viewings_Summer Hatfield

My respect for multimedia as a powerful tool was first piqued after the Arab Spring began. It blew my mind that so much could be accomplished via platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Even still, I’ve always avoided them like the plague, I think because I never really saw how they could apply to my life […]

Week 1: Adam King Response to Readings/Viewings

As a completely no-holds-barred liberal, both the Phillips reading and the Transmedia video have caused me to consider the role of the conservative stance in media. In many ways, it seems as if the right-wing ethos is in and of itself a complete opposition to the term “news.” As Massiah says in terms of the […]

Week 1: Emily Priebe Response to Readings

Many of our texts focus on how transmedia can enact social justice. Coming from a marketing background, I’m particularly interested in thinking about how transmedia can influence consumers as well. Henry Jenkins in the Google Hangout defined transmedia as “the relationship between different media platforms and practices.” For me, there lies the crux of the […]

Week 1: Natalie Bennon

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]