media ethics
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Read More: publish the processAlex J: Hi, Alex. Thank you for agreeing to be in conversation with me tonight and your tomorrow for my blogging project, where I am talking to people that I’m…
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Read More: sit together and shareYesterday I read this invitation on Instagram and also on Facebook from my friend and colleague, Irene Lusztig. Hi friends. Many of you know that in 2020 my Santa Cruz…
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Read More: 2025: dawn of a new practiceAlex: Good morning, Gavin. It’s Saturday, January 4th, somewhat early in the morning. We are in bed having a lazy morning but you agreed to be my guinea pig for…
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Read More: #16: practice strategic contemplation
Practicing strategic contemplation—what Rosylyn Rhee explains as having “to be comfortable being uncomfortable [because] so much of making documentary films is embracing the unknown”—is one of six “principles of feminist…
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Read More: Jason and Shirley: Loving incantation of a state we all can identify with, the state of JasonAfter seeing Jason and Shirley (Stephen Winter, 2015) this weekend at Outfest, I am moved to respond here to Milestone Film & Video‘s recent and scathing critique of the film…
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Read More: Facebook, Peace, and DocumentaryLast week, I used my own changing Facebook experiences during the gruesome Israel/Gaza conflict to think about the often unattended-to subtleties of Internet echo chambers in light of family, identity,…
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Read More: To and From Facebook: Being Together in our World of WarLast week, I was sitting with a dear old friend on a shady deck. We were enjoying our summer vacation at his family’s beach house. Conversation turned to Israel/Gaza, and…
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Read More: Lisa Nakamura: Internet ShamingI am honored to have taken on the leadership of Pitzer College’s Munroe Center for Social Inquiry for the next four years. Each year, I choose a theme, and then…
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Read More: “I made my mourning productive, collective, and interactive …” on Visual AIDS“How can we understand this moment of ‘AIDS Crisis Revisitation’, exemplified by the success of films like United in Anger and How to Survive a Plague. Video artist, activist, and…