Maggie Burnette Stogner’s Case Study on The Redford Center’s “Watershed” Impact Campaign has been selected as one of four finalists for the highly-competitive Jackson Wild Impact Campaign Awards Category. The winner will be announced at the Jackson Wild Awards Gala in Washington, D.C. on September 5th. Rediet Lewi, MFA 2024, was Maggie’s outstanding research assistant. She has gone on to pursue an interdisciplinary PhD in Ethnographic & Film studies at Cornell University. The multi-talented Marissa Woods, MFA 2024, did the design layout and infographics for the report. It will be published on the http://www.cefimpactmedia.org website soon.
“In the Executioner’s Shadow” (2018) has seen a significant resurgence through international social media platforms. Produced and directed by Maggie Burnette Stogner and Co-Produced by Rick Stack, this powerful documentary about the death penalty garnered over 380,000 views in the past 5 months. There was a screening event recently with South Carolinians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty in Greenville, SC. and Rick presented at the 31st annual Starvin' for Justice Fast & Vigil to Protest the Death Penalty at the Supreme Court Building in July. The renewed interested stems from the significant increase in executions in the U.S. and around the globe. Recent data has found that for every 8.2 people executed in the United States, one person on death row has been exonerated.
Claudia Myers and Laura Waters Hinson's immigration-themed short documentary "The Test" has now screened at 20 film festivals. "The Test" won Best Short Documentary at the UFVA Conference in July. It was also nominated for Best Documentary at the Festival of Cinema NYC.
In addition to festival screenings, Claudia and Laura launched an impact campaign for "The Test" that has resulted in nearly a dozen community events, panels and conferences, including a screening at The Carter Center for Peace.
Claudia's recent TV movie, "The Bad Guardian" directed for Lifetime was the subject of an article on Medium “The Bad Guardian: Investigating Guardianship Abuse Through Melissa Joan Hart and La La Anthony’s Compelling Performances." "The Bad Guardian" was also selected as the Pitch to Screen Festival's Spotlight Film.
Filippo Trevisan was quoted in an article about Kamala Harris and young voters in L’Express, one of France’s top weekly news magazines. In particular, Filippo noted that the fact that progressive youth organizations have immediately supported Harris “is all the more interesting for the Democrats because these organizations are able to speak to young people in an effective way, using codes specific to their culture.”
Margot Susca was featured Aug. 12 as an expert on CBC, Canada's largest public broadcaster, in a piece about an American hedge fund's push to acquire a newspaper chain in its Eastern provinces. The piece was headlined: "Journalism professor warns of cuts to come at Saltwire newspapers after Postmedia purchase." Margot also did a CBC radio show live that morning.
Adrienne Massanari was quoted in an article for WIRED magazine, Gamergate’s Aggrieved Men Still Haunt the Internet, about 2014’s Gamergate harassment movement and the lasting impact it had on digital culture and politics.
Adrienne Massanari has been selected to serve as a Center for Teaching, Research & Learning Inclusive Pedagogy (IP) Faculty Fellow for AY 24-25 and AY 25-26. The CTRL Faculty Fellows program is designed to advance CTRL’s mission of promoting and supporting excellence in teaching and scholarship at American University. In doing so, the program recognizes and leverages faculty expertise to lead in the sharing of knowledge, experience, and creativity.
Andy Phelps has a new journal publication out on streaming and authenticity with his collaborators at Syracuse, Concordia, and Harrisburg. You can find it here:
Bowman, N. D., Lee, Y. E., Zhao, E. Y., Chen, S., Phelps, A., Consalvo, M., & Boudreau, K. (2024). Authenticity on Display? How Perceived Scriptedness, Production, and Staging of Microstreamers Influence Perceived Authenticity and Enjoyment. Technology, Mind, and Behavior, 5(3: Fall 2024).
Pallavi Kumar spoke on a panel sponsored by Zeno Group called, "Breaking PR Barriers: Navigating Inclusivity and Allyship" on August 20th along with faculty from Howard University, USC, Columbia College and the University of Alabama. The panel discussed a variety of topics including: understanding inclusivity; creating environments that embrace diverse perspectives; strategies to overcome barriers faced by underrepresented groups; and authentic representation.
Aram Sinnreich did a live interview on KCBS radio about presidential campaigns' unauthorized uses of pop songs.
Varsha Ramani was featured by NAFSA in their story on former international students making an impact.
Bill Gentile's review of photojournalist Robert (Bob) Nickelsberg's new book of photographs was published this week in ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America. Titled, Legacy of Lies: El Salvador 1981-1984, the book is scheduled for release on September 3. The images were made in the early years of El Salvador's brutal civil war. "Nickelsberg’s book more resembles the work of an anthropologist than the work of a photojournalist," Gentile writes in his review. "Each picture is a document. One step of a visual journey into darkness. An indictment. In the 104 images that appear in Legacy of Lies, I count only a handful of smiles on the faces of hundreds, if not thousands, of subjects. Nickelsberg has built a case against the lies and the liars of his time in that place. Each image is testimony. Their cumulative effect is numbing."
You can read the entire review here.
Covering the conflicts in Central America, Bob NIckelsberg in the 1980s was a contract photojournalist for Time magazine. Gentile was on contract for Newsweek. Today, Bob is installing his vast collection of black and white negatives, color slides, and photos printed in Time magazine, into the Archives and Special Collection component of the American University Library. Gentile's collection already is part of the AU Library archive. See Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection.
