The Making a New Reality Toolkit provides a host of carefully curated resources for making emerging media such as VR, AR, and social media more diverse, equitable, and inclusive (DEI). Co-authored by Kamal Sinclair and Dot Connector’s Jessica Clark, the toolkit divides the work into…
We are excited to announce a new strategic partnership with the San Francisco Bay Area-based impact and innovation consulting firm Multiply Bureau, led by Hannah Eaves. Hannah has worked with our director, Jessica Clark to develop rigorous methods of media impact assessment on and off…
Summer is in full swing at DCS headquarters in Philadelphia—complete with heat waves, water main breaks, and lots of travel to less humid places. But this hasn’t stopped us from presenting at conferences and producing reports, articles, and more. Nancy Watzman, director of strategic initiatives,…
The Making a New Reality project, which Dot Connector is producing in collaboration with Kamal Sinclair, published a seventh issue that addresses designing for justice in emerging media. In the feature piece, Sinclair presents a number of design principles established by leaders in the discipline hailing from…
Issue #16 of Immerse—the monthly digital publication focused on emerging nonfiction storytelling edited by DCS director Jessica Clark is now live. It features an article by Dan Archer, who delves into his research at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School on VR…
The Making a New Reality project, which Dot Connector is producing in collaboration with Kamal Sinclair, published a sixth issue that addresses the absence of boundaries in emerging media and technology. Media makers and consumers are left increasingly vulnerable to exploitation by bad actors pursuing unethical…
Issue #15 of Immerse—the monthly digital publication focused on emerging nonfiction storytelling that’s edited by our director, Jessica Clark, is now live. It features an article by Clark that examines the rise of haptic storytelling in a piece titled “Do You Feel What I Feel?” She…
The Making a New Reality project, which Dot Connector is producing in collaboration with Kamal Sinclair, published a fifth issue that follows up on problems introduced in the fourth issue related to silos and knowledge gaps. This month, Sinclair explores solutions for bridging chasms between arts,…
Issue #14 of Immerse—the monthly digital publication focused on emerging nonfiction storytelling that’s edited by our director, Jessica Clark—features an article by Mark Atkin who considers the question: Who owns our depictions? Also in this issue, don’t miss two field reports. The first from Brett Gaylor…
As our team at Dot Connector Studio has been busy chugging away on the Making a New Reality series with Kamal Sinclair, we wanted to take a moment to shout out In-House International —the creative studio that we collaborated with to develop the brand, visual language…