Transmedia Activism Idea Exchange

One of our aims for this framework is to lead the creation of a community of practice that moves the creation and distribution of media, art and cultural assets from awareness to action.  So we have created a space for you to discuss ideas and best practices related to transmedia and social change.  Please visit [...]

2009 NAMAC Conference

Lina Srivastava will be speaking on a panel entitled “The People Formerly Known as the Audience,” at NAMAC’s 2009 Conference, “Commonwealth,” on August 27, 2009.
The panel explores: Social media and other democratic technologies have shifted our thinking about the relationships between producers, consumers, and distributors of media and art. Join us for some leading-edge thinking [...]

DIY Days, August 1, 2009, Philadelphia

We will be at DIY DAYS in Philadelphia this week, Saturday, August 1, to run the transmedia activism workshop.
DIY DAYS – fund :: create :: distribute :: sustain
How do we sustain ourselves as storytellers in this day of shifting distribution systems? How do we monetize our work and get the word? Presented by the [...]

Open Video Conference June 19 & 20, NYC

Here’s the presentation from our workshop at the Open Video Conference on Transmedia Activism: Creating a cross-media platform for social issue campaigns. Our workshop examined opportunities to create social change using online tools and cross-media strategies by presenting the basic structure of a transmedia activism campaign and an illustrative case study, Boomtown Babylon, a [...]

Boomtown Babylon

BOOMTOWN BABYLON
As the global urban population expands at a rate of 3 million people per week, the gulf between the haves and have-nots is ever widening in cities around the world. While the wealthy retreat to safe, gated communities, the poor are forced into marginal slums, where the destruction of social capital through poverty, civil [...]