I have my own project in Japan, called SoHub, where multidisciplinary teams work with a rural community that improve the lives in the community through collaborative technology solutions. The community we are currently working with is Tane in Shiga prefecture, which is a rural community facing the depopulation. In SoHub, […]
Daily Archives: October 1, 2013
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In an age of smartphone cameras and ubiquitous surveillance, what place is there for artists in politics? What does journalistic, political art look like? This summer, I’ve been exploring the role of comics in nonfiction, blogging about Nick Sousanis’s academic comics and interviewing Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld with The […]
Media has shaped the culture of cancer in the United States, and even more broadly, it has changed the country’s general sense of social responsibility. For my final project for Intro to Civic Media, I want to explore this further. After someone close to me was diagnosed with breast cancer, […]
A possible idea for my project in this class is a case study of how media and culture can be successfully employed by people in the face of some form of oppression and, more importantly, what factors make this victory possible. As I was trying to recall examples that could […]