UDC and Project Censored’s joint 2013 conference — The Point is to Change It: Media Democracy and Democratic Media in Action ended today. It was a great conference full of good discussions and inspiring ‘comrade’ mood. Yuezhi Zhao received Dallas Smythe Award last night. In her address, she said that […]
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Members of an unveiled club at the Bukhara district Women’s Division (Soviet Uzbekistan, 1928). The social role of an Uzbek woman is frequently defined within the context of patriarchal values and is considered secondary and inferior to that of men. Major media outlets censored and produced under the government authority, […]
#11milliondreams The #11milliondreams Storython, held on October 5th and 6th in both Los Angeles and Boston, was a collaborative effort of skill sharing and hands-on building to strengthen media practice in immigrant communities. Drawing inspiration from social movements such as Occupy, which harnessed media and tech skills from participants in […]
Co-written with Willow Brugh; graphic by Willow!link to the hackpad version of this post When you are designing a project for social justice, where do you start? In this workshop, we practice value-based design, a method that helps us to design for large scale social impact and to relate this […]
My original idea was to write a paper analyzing what makes civic movements that employ media and originate from repressed communities possible and successful. The intended goal of the project would be to give me and others a clue about what kind of conditions help enthusiasm to bring about change […]