Media Impact Funders responded to a growing interest among funders regarding the role they can play in supporting news and community information by producing an updated version of Journalism and Media Grantmaking: Five Things You Need to Know and Five Ways to Get Started with support from…
In 2017 Dot Connector Studio worked with Sarah Lutman of Lutman & Associates to investigate the future of media, technology, learning, and the open internet for the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2030 strategy process. The team wrote seven research briefs and presented at the annual Wikimania Conference in Montreal…
The Making a New Reality project, which Dot Connector is creating in collaboration with Kamal Sinclair, published a third issue that continues to focus on strategies to mitigate bias. The issue piggybacks on ideas introduced in the previous month’s installment while also initiating conversation around a range…
Our director and founder here at Dot Connector Studio, Jessica Clark, was featured in two articles published earlier this month on MediaShift—an online publication that provides insight and analysis at the intersection of media and technology. Clark was listed as a leader in MetricShift20 “a…
Issue #13 of Immerse—the monthly digital publication focused on emerging nonfiction storytelling that’s edited by our director, Jessica Clark—considers the role of artificial intelligence and machine learning in emerging documentary. Artist Lauren McCarthy discusses the rise of AI personal assistants and their invasion into the most…
In the last quarter of 2017, Jessica Clark worked alongside Kelly Born of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to organize a webinar series on how funders can support projects aimed at addressing misinformation and disinformation. The first webinar in October examined how to create news that…
The Making a New Reality project, which Dot Connector is creating in collaboration with Kamal Sinclair, published a second issue with a focus on strategies to mitigate bias in emerging media. The project is supported by the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms program, with additional support from the Sundance Institute….
Throughout 2017, we’ve spent a lot of time thinking, researching, writing, and talking about how disinformation flows online, about filter bubbles and fact-checking, transparency for news organizations, and other important pieces of the puzzle about how the internet has changed the way so many of…
Beginning this month, Immerse is launching a series of posts from Kamal Sinclair about her research on ways to foster equality in emerging media, with support articles available on the just-launched Making a New Reality site. The project is supported by the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms program, with additional support from…
Over the summer, we issued an updated version of our Impact Pack, a media strategy deck designed to help funders, makers and researchers plan and evaluate their engagement strategies. The updated deck includes two new cards: “trust” and “collaboration.” The “trust” card is based on the…