Exhibit by Tucson’s Refugee and Immigrant Youth in the US Senate
May 28, 2008
Tucson, AZ - The exhibit “Home: Teen Refugees & Immigrants Explore Their Tucson” will travel to D.C. for exhibition in the Russell Rotunda of the Senate building the week of June 2-6, 2008. Read more
Beyond Broadcast 08
May 28, 2008
Each year, Beyond Broadcast explores the evolution of participatory digital public media. This year’s theme is Mapping Public Media: How are media makers using online mapping and visualization tools to tell stories and engage communities? Read more
Remedee: Empowerment Through Storytelling
May 28, 2008
Remedee is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that believes that everyone has a story, but too few have the opportunity to tell it. Our mission is to empower underserved youth with the resources and education to thoughtfully share their worlds through documentary filmmaking and new media. By giving young people of the world access to a voice, we strive to educate and empower our next generation. Read more
Teens Explore Racism In London: Video Art Postcards
May 28, 2008
In the summer of 2007, two groups of teenagers aged 14 to 19 from the London Borough of Newham participated in a unique experience: assisted by video artists and historians, the teenagers uncovered sites related to historical racism and anti-racism in the West India Docks area of London and expressed their interpretation of this history and heritage creatively, using digital media and their imaginations. Read more
Study: When Participants Do the Capturing: The Role of Media in
May 28, 2008
In this study, Scott Carter of Berkeley and Jennifer Mankoff of Carnegie Mellon Univeristy investigate how the choice of media for capture and access affects the diary study method. The diary study is a method of understanding participant behavior and intent in situ that minimizes the effects of observers on participants.usually occurs in one of two ways: participants answer prede?ned questions about events (feedback studies) or participants capture media that are then used as prompts for discussion in interviews (elicitation studies). Read more
