Audience Engagement

Making Your Media Matter 2010 Conference: Pamela Yates and Paco de Onis

Pamela Yates and Paco de Onis, filmmakers of The Reckoning, present "Strategic Design in Social Issue Media," a presentation on how they developed and distributed The Reckoning, and how they built strong partnerships and an extensive audience engagement component into the making of their film.

To listen to the podcast of this presentation, click here.

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Impact Outside of the Box: Assessing How Digital Video Can Engage and Influence Publics

INTRODUCTION

An irate Congresswoman stands before the United States House of Representatives. Striking the air, she bawls:Read more...

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What Keeps Social Documentaries from Audiences--and How to Fix It

What happens to U.S. social documentaries after they are first seen at a film festival or on television? Far too little--in spite of evidence of rising interest in the genre. Read the results of research and an expert convening on the topic and find out not only about the problems, but suggested solutions. Funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Social Issue Documentary: The Evolution of Public Engagement [2009]

Documentary films are serving as the core for innovative spaces and practices that mark a new kind of public media – accessible, participatory and inclusive. This article examines the campaigns surrounding three films: Not in Our Town, Lioness, and State of Fear to uncover how emerging strategies for online and offline engagement are laying the groundwork for "public media 2.0."

Where is Your Line partners with MTV

Posted by Alison Hanold on February 15, 2010

Where is Your Line?, a project that will be demoed at the soon-to-be-rescheduled Making Your Media Matter conference, has partnered with MTV to have an open conversation about the recognition of abuse and sexuality among teenagers. Nancy Schwartzman, who heads up this project, wrote the following on the project's website:Read more...

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