{"id":62,"date":"2008-02-10T19:01:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T23:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/2008\/02\/10\/diy-video-telling-stories\/"},"modified":"2008-02-10T19:01:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T23:01:46","slug":"diy-video-telling-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/2008\/02\/10\/diy-video-telling-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY video:  telling stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We\u2019ve spent much of the past 150 years working to achieve full literacy across the globe.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Information has historically been widely disseminated via the written word:<span>\u00a0 <\/span>so, much knowledge required the ability to read,\u00a0 or have someone who\u2019s judgment you trust relay that information to you.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>More important still, if you wanted to <em>produce<\/em> information, you needed to know how to write.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Crucially, \u2018knowing how to write\u2019 means more than just knowing the letters or spellings of words \u2013 it\u2019s knowing how to tell a story, one that people will listen to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In today\u2019s world, information is spread through different means.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Most often, this is video:<span>\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/p\/1137\/pipcomments.asp\">TV a main source of news in the US<\/a>.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Video is very different from text \u2013 there are many more elements, more complexities, more tools needed, and some may argue that it is more powerful in conveying message \u2013 but in the end, just like writing, it\u2019s about telling stories.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Also just like writing, in order to enter into the conversation and be heard, individuals need to be literate \u2013 now, media literate.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Henry Jenkins highlights that beyond access to technologies, we all \u2013 and particularly the young people \u2013 must learn to be media literate.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>How do you tell an effective story, one that will be watched and listened to, with video?<span>\u00a0 <\/span>How do you tell <em>your<\/em> story?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcet.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">KECT<\/a> &#8211; Los Angeles Community TV &#8211;\u00a0 is doing just this, teaching high school students how to tell their stories and represent their neighborhood.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Mass media images of Los  Angeles tend to focus on either the glitz of Hollywood or the violence in the inner city.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Juan Davis explained how KECT set out to show a different LA LA, first by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcet.org\/explore-ca\/web-stories\/sustaining\/\">telling stories<\/a> of a communities and individuals, and next by empowering communities and individuals to tell their own story.<span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The stories we see on KECT portray a true, positive alternative vision of LA communities.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>What do you do when your voice and the your stories are missing from the media?<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Do it yourself.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0&#8211; Miriam Simun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve spent much of the past 150 years working to achieve full literacy across the globe.\u00a0 Information has historically been widely disseminated via the written word:\u00a0 so, much knowledge required the ability to read,\u00a0 or have someone who\u2019s judgment you trust relay that information to you.\u00a0 More important still, if you wanted to produce information, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1633,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1071,879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/digitalnatives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}