Maggie Burnette Stogner received a $250,000 grant from the Walton Family Foundation to expand the “Upstream, Downriver Project”. These funds will support the production of a series of short videos, working title: “Women Water Warriors”. It will also support outreach and distribution of our new one-hour film and the half-hour films. Walton’s commitment to this project will enable us to grow a strategic media ecosystem of community-based civic engagement on issues of water justice and equity
AU/SOC/Center For Environmental Filmmaking were featured in a widely-disseminated press release from The Redford Center about Maggie Stogner's case study on the “Watershed Impact Campaign". To see the case study, click here.
Adrienne Massanari was featured as one of 18 experts discussing the enduring legacy of Gamergate in the August 28 edition of Caitlyn Dewey’s Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends newsletter.
Adrienne was also invited to join the newly formed Network of Inclusive Excellence Advisors, an advisory group created by AU's Vice President of Inclusive Excellence, Dr. Nkenge Friday. The group will directly advise on the direction, priorities, objectives, and goals of institutional-wide inclusive excellence efforts at AU. Dr. Friday noted in her invitation, “I intentionally developed a “wish list” of experts and highly lauded individuals from areas of peacebuilding and conflict resolution, antiracism, intercultural communication, interfaith dialogue, disability justice, immigration and migration, and more – designed to not only offer unique perspective, but to contribute to how we actively advance policy and practice at AU."
Patricia Aufderheide made the splash page of CMSI's website, with a Q&A with Caty Borum! All about Aufderheide's new book,and how it aligns with the values of CMSI!
Filippo Trevisan was interviewed for Capitol Review on DC News Now (a CW affiliate) about the electoral map for the upcoming November election and what’s at stake for Democrats and Republicans.
Paula Weissman, Caty Borum, and David Conrad-Pérez published a new CMSI study (funded by MTV Entertainment Networks/Paramount and facilitated in collaboration with Michelle Obama's nonpartisan civic engagement organization, When We All Vote) in Mass Communication & Society. The article, entitled "All Talk, Not Enough Action: Civic Engagement in U.S. Entertainment TV at a Time of Crisis," examines how civic leadership and civic engagement are portrayed on the top entertainment TV shows in the United States. Other SOC community members who contributed to the research include Aras Coskuntuncel (SOC PhD alum) and three students and alumni from SOC graduate programs, L Miller, Kimberly Reason, and Allegra Udell.
Aram Sinnreich was interviewed in Columbia Magazine about his most recent book The Secret Life of Data.
