Over the past decade, a lively debate has emerged around questions of how best to assess the rising impact of social issue documentaries. In a new report, Social Justice Documentary: Designing for Impact, Center for Social Media (CSM) Fellows Jessica Clark and Barbara Abrash examine this question through the lens of six in-depth case studies of high-impact documentaries, and offer a snapshot of evaluation efforts, an analysis of how strategic design concepts can be applied to documentary production, and a framework to prompt further research.
Click to Read Online [4] or Download the PDF [5]
Links:
[1] http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/making-your-media-matter/documents/case-studies/case-study-state-fear-truth-about-terrorism
[2] http://archive.cmsimpact.org/making-your-media-matter/documents
[3] http://archive.cmsimpact.org/future-public-media
[4] http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/designing-impact-online-version-0
[5] http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/sites/default/files/documents/pages/designing_for_impact.pdf
[6] http://archive.cmsimpact.org/sites/default/files/documents/pages/designing_for_impact.pdf