Media Impact

This morning's Making Your Media Matter panel addresses a central question for social issue media-makers: how can you keep people watching--and make them care--when your topic is disturbing?Read more...

Suzanne Seggerman from Games for Change introduced the panel, starting her presentation by addressing fear, talking about how each new media generates resistance in its era. (Voltaire on books: "the multitude of books is making us ignorant.") She noted that it's not just "boys in basements" playing games--the average gamer is 33. Read more...

For the past two decades, the PBS documentary series P.O.V. has helped to put a human face on issues from around the globe, leading the way for today’s independent media- and filmmakers by forging new forms of storytelling in public media.
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Center Director Pat Aufderheide's new book, Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction is now available! Hear what others are saying:

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As a part of the 2007 AFL-CIO DC Labor Film Fest and in partnership with ActiveVoice, the Center for Social Media screened the film, Made in LA (2007), which follows the remarkable journey of three Latina immigrants working in L.A.’s garment factories and their struggle for self-empowerment as they wage a three-year battle to bring a major clothing retailer to the negotiating table. Directed by Almudena Carracedo. Read more...