06.032016July 25, 2016
Youth Media, Collective Action, Dinner, and The Future

Youth Media, Collective Action, Dinner, and The Future

By In Education, leadership, storytelling, Youth, youth mediaTags ,

A 'blogversation' by Jason Wyman, Myah Overstreet, and Wendy Levy

Introducing the 50-State Dinner Party Project!

Wendy: When I first started at NAMAC a little over a year ago, I had a long conversation with Board Member Kasandra VerBrugghen, the Executive Director of SpyHop in Utah. I was bowled over by the creative energy, solidarity and conviction around NAMAC’s National Youth Media Network programming and the collective desire for growth and change—especially around the inclusion of youth voices at every phase of the process.

08.122015December 8, 2015
Data, Ethics, Community

Data, Ethics, Community

By In climate change, Documentary, Education, environment, storytelling, Television, virtual realityTags , , , ,

This essay is a conversation between Anselm Hook (Creative Technologist, former CTO of Meedan, Co-Founder of Maker Lab and Liminal AR in the Samsung Accelerator) and Wendy Levy, the Executive Director of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture.

03.092015September 10, 2015
Why the Arts Need Responsible Data Journalism

Why the Arts Need Responsible Data Journalism

By In Internet, journalism, PolicyTags , ,

By Casey Rae

Before the Internet, few outside of research or technical vocations had much concern with data. Now, as users and producers in an increasingly Internet-centric economy, we’re all swept up in the dataflood. All of this activity, individually and in the aggregate, contributes to the massive volume of data generated every day. Contextualizing all of this information and translating it for human comprehension is one of the key challenges of our time.

28.082015September 10, 2015
Virtual Reality in Conflict Zones

Virtual Reality in Conflict Zones

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By Conor Risch

Like oxygen to fire, new generations of soldiers feed longstanding conflicts. It’s unlikely that young people who take up arms in places like Israel and Gaza, El Salvador, Afghanistan and the Congo actively choose to deny the humanity of their enemies. The cultures that raise them, and the history of the conflicts into which they step, cast enemies as “the other,” as people without decency or compassion or hopes and dreams, and it can be easy to avoid digging for alternate views.