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Turning an idea into a tool
Unless you are blessed with better party invites than I, chances are you know just as little about what goes on in the minds of our toolmakers. All of us, at some point or another, wish that we were...
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Flickr for Visual Data Research and Analysis
In the spring term of 2013, CUNY sociology Professors Juan Battle and Bill Kornblum offered a unique course called CUNY As a Lab, in which MA and PhD students at the Graduate Center conducted research...
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Digital Media Storytelling Can Influence Policy
Policymakers are influenced by compelling stories and academic researchers who want to influence policy should consider the power of digital media storytelling to influence policy, as this experience...
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Interview: Digital Media Activist István Gábor Takács
In our on-going series “Punishment to Public Health,” I interviewed István Gábor Takács who is the Video Program Director with the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU). Takács makes award-winning...
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Teaching and Learning with Documentaries in the Digital Era
Young people entering college today have grown up immersed in a multimedia digital environment. Yet, the classroom environment they encounter often reflects nineteenth-century pedagogy of “walk and...
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Creating Change with Storytelling
The way we measure impact is changing, whether the “we” is academics, grant makers or activists. Recently, I wrote here about “transactional” and “transformational” metrics. Transactional metrics are...
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The Importance of Audio and Podcasts
The first thing I learned about podcasting was that it is powerful medium. Podcasting is powerful not only because it has the ability to relate complex arguments into digestible bits of information,...
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