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• 1 media/JLeavitt-Public-Private.jpg 2013-10-23T10:51:52-07:00 Public vs Private 17 structured_gallery 2014-11-03T16:27:08-08:00

  How might activists assess risks, especially those concerning privacy and security, as they share their stories online?  In a widely shared critique of so-called “Twitter Revolutions,” The New Yorker’s Malcolm Gladwell argues that online activists do not face the same kinds of risks as previous generations faced in their struggles for civil rights. Yet, we are finding that there are high risks for, say, undocumented who post videos coming out via YouTube or American Muslim youth who use social media to think through their identities in the Post-9/11 era. Many of these risks emerge as these youth make choices about the bounds between publicity (“coming out,” “speaking out”) and privacy, which are similar to more mundane choices confronting all youth in the era of Twitter and Facebook.

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  "Coming Out of the Shadows" utilized the documentary format of interviews combined with more cinema verite protest footage.  The interviews help to contextualize and emphasize the vulnerability and risk that these protesters are taking to expose themselves in public spaces, to “come out of the shadows”. The emphasis on (in)visibility within immigrant reform protests plays out in an interesting tension with video as some protesters prefer to keep their identities hidden while others want to share their story in order to humanize their situation. 

  Ask Some Conversation Starter Questions.

  Here are some questions you can ask to get a conversation about remix started in your community: What do you share publicly and what do you keep private? How do you decide? Do you have a public social media outlet where you share you thoughts? Why or why not? Do you decide to keep some things more private to yourself or a small circle of friends? What is the advantage of sharing more about yourself with a broader public? Have you ever experienced any consequences from sharing something publicly? Can sharing personal information about yourself help get people to support you when you take action on a particular issue? Do you have an example of when this happened to you or someone you know?

  Looking to Start Your Own Conversation? If the HitRecord Public vs Private video and information contained here inspired you to action, you may want reach to the original call for submissions that inspired this video to be made in the first place. While the deadline for submissions has expired, you are always free to create your own responses to it!

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  About

  Since 2001, undocumented immigrant youth have mobilized across the country to bring attention to the immigrant rights struggle both at the federal and state levels. Intent on passing the DREAM Act, a piece of legislation that would grant immigrant youth brought as children to the United States an opportunity to become permanent residents and pursue higher education, the "DREAM" activists have mobilized thousands of young people by sharing their personal stories of struggle and triumph through multiple media platforms- self-made YouTube videos, documentaries, films, poetry, and Arte popular. The case study captures the experiences of undocumented youth who are members of various youth-led organizations such as the Orange County and Los Angeles Dream Teams, the California Dream Network, AB540 youth groups on college campuses, IMARTE, Dreamers Adrift, and Dream Activist.
  See Liana Gamber-Thompson and Arely Zimmerman's By Any Media Necessary chapter, DREAMing Citizenship: Undocumented Youth, Coming Out, and Pathways to Participation, to learn more about this organization.
  Contributed by Liana Gamber-Thompson on 5/10/14

  DREAMer Media 

  Coming out of the Shadows - Dream Activist Philadelphia 
  Part 1 DC DREAM Act National Graduation 
  To All My DREAMheads
• 1 media/medialibrarythumbnailsscreenshot.jpg 2013-10-30T16:50:55-07:00 Documentary 11 structured_gallery 2014-11-04T13:31:10-08:00 Documentary has become omnipresent and complicated with the proliferation of personal recording devices. It's simple categorization is difficult as it bleeds into a number of different maker practices. Nevertheless, the documentary format is generally one concerned with documenting real people and events; and then organizing that material into a logical, storytelling format.
  There are a number of potent usages for the documentary format. In particular, documentary is vital for a campaign or organization that involves a number of live events or direct actions in public space. The unexpected spontaneity, the sense of danger, and the energy of a public, political event are often inexpressible in words. So the documentary format allows a rich portrayal of the incidents and what it'd be like to be there. Moreover, the documentary format often involves interviews (either formal or on the street) which provide greater context and perspective to an event.
  Among the groups, there is a range of varying types of documentary techniques from simple documentation to nuanced storytelling that involves fictional scenes as well as real-world footage. Coming Out of the Shadows is a classic example of a basic documentary structure. The one minute thirty second video immediately throws the audience into the action of the protest. The video then introduces one of the main organizers, who provides context through an interview, as the video develops an basic arch for the rest of the protest action. 
  Invisible Children's Kony 2012 video on the other hand is extremely complex in its use of documentary video, found footage, personal media, digital illustrations, and staged protests. The effect is that it creates a complex series of rhetorical relationships that often jump from global to personal perspectives and across socio-cultural boundaries. Additionally, the staged youth protest near the end of the documentary borrows from music video techniques to inspire young audiences and provide them with an image of themselves if they decide to join the cause.
• 1 2013-08-05T11:45:46-07:00 DREAMing Citizenship 4 Undocumented Youth, Transmedia Strategies and Pathways to Political Participation split 2013-10-30T16:28:11-07:00 As evidenced in the previous chapters, participatory culture has become increasingly important to understanding patterns of civic, social, cultural and political engagement among youth. Yet, with some notable exceptions, there has been little attention focused on bridging insights from the theory of participatory culture with literature on social movements. Seeking to better understand how digital media platforms and practices may be impacting social movements, this chapter draws on insights from a case study with undocumented youth commonly referred to as Dreamers, who are engaged in immigrant rights organizing and activism. We draw primarily on interview data and media artifacts related to DreamActivist.org. Much like the American Muslim youth in the previous chapter, the Dreamers have engaged in acts of personal and collective storytelling, but they have done so in the context of a larger social movement, where tactics also seek to dramatize and publicize struggles over power. Dreamers, who originally coalesced around the federal DREAM Act legislation in 2010,, have leveraged their familiarity with digital media practices and networked culture to create ad hoc Dreamer organizations, circumventing top-down organizational structures to become critical actors within the broader movement for immigrant rights. This chapter does not aim to account for all characteristics of the DREAM movement systematically. Rather, our aim here is more modest--to identify ways that undocumented youth have used digital media tools to represent their voices, stories, and interests. In doing so, we will also explore what lessons can be drawn from Dreamers in understanding how other marginalized communities can use digital media to create pathways toward greater social and political empowerment. During our research, we met many individuals who defied popular presumptions about civically and politically disengaged youth. These were not “the usual suspects”, not “digital natives.” Rather, they were youth who were finding ways to connect against great political, legal, economic and technological barriers. We use social movement concepts to critically examine how excluded communities have gained inclusion and citizenship, specifically using John A. Guidry and Mark Q. Sawyer’s (2003) concept of contentious pluralism to show how Dreamers engage in many historically situated practices of mobilization and movement building. While, as the title and introduction suggest, the idea of conducting politics across media runs across the book, here is where we most directly discuss what Costanza-Chock (2010) refers to as "transmedia mobilization", where social movement participants tap into any and all available media platforms as a means of mobilizing others. Transmedia mobilization strategies can at times help grassroots social movements supplant mass media representations through more locally constructed and participatory forms of messaging. Our research shows that transmedia strategies have served the Dreamers well in their quest, not only to move immigrant rights legislation forward, but also in their efforts to shed light on the struggles of undocumented youth more broadly. Thus, we argue that the rise in digital media, and by extension participatory cultures, has opened up other avenues beyond what Harris-Lacewell (2004) calls "information networks" to create pathways toward participation. Following from this, we demonstrate that undocumented youth have used digital media to create spaces of citizenship, collective identity, belonging, and political participation.
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