Dot Connector Studio

07/08/2024

Hey friends it's that time of year, when we all beg for your votes!

No, I'm not talking about yesterday's rally in Philly—I'm stumping for Austin 2025. Please check out these 3 panels and vote by August 18.

Hope to see you there...

https://dotconnectorstudio.com/cast-your-ballot-for-better-futures-at-sxsw/

16/05/2024

https://dotconnectorstudio.com/how-dcs-is-walking-the-talk-of-healthier-futures/

Learn about how Dot Connector Studio and its network are actively making futures with foundations, organizers, artists, scholars and practitioners to interrogate the most pressing issues of the day. Want

16/11/2023

BIG SMOOCHES to our many amazing co-creators, whose projects are really coming to fruition as the year closes...

https://dotconnectorstudio.com/celebrating-our-collaborators/
Jennifer Brandel Bristol Baughan Evan Walsh

November is a month for gratitude, so we wanted to take a moment to recognize our many amazing co-creators. Although Dot Connector Studio is a business, it’s also a network—rich with former and future clients and creative conspirators.  Sometimes we work on projects and ideas...

10/08/2023

https://dotconnectorstudio.com/raise-a-glass-with-us-at-ona/

The Online News Association conference is coming to Philly later this month, which means many friends and clients will be flocking to our hometown. So we’re celebrating our first decade with an informal happy hour. Please let us know if you plan to drop by!...

15/05/2023

Join the Guild of Future Architects on Wednesday, 5/17, for a sneak peak of the 20 Decades of 2020. This in-person reading and workshop members of GoFA invite you to time travel together through short readings from the book (read by their authors) and introduce you to the practice of future architecture through a guided interactive experience.

For for information and to RSVP:

Thanks for RSVPing! We'll follow up with a google invitation and more details.

10/03/2023

The conversation surrouding , including & , has garnerned a wide variety of reactions online. Jessica Clark breaks down what exactly it is, what it means for organizations such as Robert Wood Johnson Foundation & the communities they serve.

Read on:

by Jessica Clark

23/05/2022

Lately here at DCS we have been thinking about the future of media and tech—how it relates to tears in the social fabric and offers fresh possibilities for knitting things back together. Read on to see what we’ve been up to ⬇️

https://dotconnectorstudio.com/all-the-media-futures-may-2022/

Lately here at DCS we have been thinking about the future of media and tech—read on to see what we've been up to.

13/05/2022

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For Immerse, Dan Schindel looks at how avatars went from a straightforward utilitarian function to an art form. ⬇️

https://immerse.news/the-art-of-avatar-creation-b7d291c6cd7f

What drives players of games like “Elden Ring” to share screenshots of their avatars?

29/04/2022

Birds... as surveillance drones??

Ripe with laughs, Zoe Williams writes how a small act of satire has become the mass movement that is via The Guardian ⬇️

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/14/the-lunacy-is-getting-more-intense-how-birds-arent-real-took-on-the-conspiracy-theorists

On a march, Peter McIndoe held up a sign and talked about how the ‘deep state’ had replaced all birds with drones. It was meant as a small act of satire but has become a mass movement

22/04/2022

A thoughtful piece by Jon Haidt on why social media has dissolved the mortar of our society and the devastation it has caused via The Atlantic. ⬇️

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/

It’s not just a phase.

15/04/2022

Can local newspapers harness meteorology to boost engagement with their communities?

An interesting read by Laura Hazard Owen, on how local news can harness the volatile weather climate change has created as an opportunity via Nieman Journalism Lab ⬇️

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/04/as-climate-change-intensifies-extreme-weather-events-local-newspapers-see-a-bright-future-in-meteorology/

"Every phone has a weather app on it. So where do you add value, layer in expertise?"

13/04/2022

Immerse reflects on "AI etc." and what they're keeping an eye on in the latest issue of their newsletter. Check it out ⬇️

https://dotconnectorstudio.com/immerse-reflects-on-ai-etc-in-latest-issue/

A glimpse at Immerse's stories from their most recent newsletter where they reflect on the busy first quarter of 2022.

08/04/2022

Information overload and degraded cognition has become overwhelmingly common in the digital age.

An excerpt from Johann Hari's book, ‘Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention’, looks at the facets of modern life causing this breakdown via The Guardian ⬇️

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/02/attention-span-focus-screens-apps-smartphones-social-media?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&fbclid=IwAR2UuuP2HjXk7HZLEiI7btVDPvuN_IGvtxIal9oBiU6Y-jX5cM6ZOsCkrQI

Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can

01/04/2022

Twice a month, Mark Glaser helps write and edit a new newsletter for the Knight Foundation, News @ Knight, produced by Knight VP of Journalism Jim Brady. Read about their most recent issue and subscribe ⬇️

https://dotconnectorstudio.com/knights-new-newsletter-2022/

Knight Foundation’s new twice-a-month newsletter, News @ Knight, focuses on the impact of local journalism.

24/03/2022

Call for proposals! Immerse is seeking pitches for their upcoming issue: Avatars, Assets & Access! The deadline to send a pitch is 4/1. Learn more about the

https://immerse.news/call-for-proposals-avatars-assets-access-10820f147369

Submission guidelines for our next special issue, in May/June 2022

23/03/2022

Knight Foundation's new twice-a-month newsletter, News @ Knight, focuses on local journalism that informs and engages diverse communities and seeks to integrate technology to reach news audiences and build sustainability.

Subscribe ⬇️

https://newsatknight.substack.com/

The future of news, now. Click to read News @ Knight, by Knight Foundation, a Substack publication with hundreds of readers.

04/03/2022

Mia Sato details how meaningful community led media can be with an in depth look at "radio shows" run by the Hmong people via The Verge ⬇️
https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/22/20975911/hmong-radio-conference-line-diaspora-america-phone-djs?fbclid=IwAR0DrwMx_RtF9M-HJe4J1-UE8QD0cRFrrWSMxQQPrW3wEOkp2uBzgSgN1wE

Reimagining the conference call line as a radio show.

02/03/2022

Rather than drowning in dystopias, we’ve increasingly been working with our clients and colleagues to imagine brighter possibilities, read to see what we’ve been up to. ⬇️

https://dotconnectorstudio.com/goodbye-dystopia-hello-bright-futures/

We’ve been dealing with the grating uncertainty of these times by trying to have a little fun with it, read on to see what we've been up to.

25/02/2022

A new kind of "fog of war"?

For the Washington Post , Craig Timberg & Drew Harwell explore the entangled mess of information & disinformation created from the immediacy of social media ⬇️

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/24/ukraine-russia-war-twitter-social-media/

The tools of modern social media are almost certainly faster, more visual and more voluminous than in any previous major military conflict thanks to the proliferation of smartphones connected to speedy data links. They can also be confusing.

18/02/2022

Is the tried and true inverted pyramid method still the best way to tell stories online?

Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis explore what careers look like for today’s local and how they've changed drastically via Nieman Journalism Lab ⬇️



https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/02/what-does-the-career-path-look-like-for-todays-local-journalists/

Plus: How newsroom ideology affects slant in the news, why burned-out/overworked reporters are quitting — and is the inverted pyramid still the way to tell stories online?

21/01/2022

“There’s no longer a social history separate from natural history. Human history and Earth history are now indivisible. ”

For Noema Magazine, Nils Gilman speaks with Achille Mbembe on how we move forward during a planetary crisis ⬇️

https://www.noemamag.com/how-to-develop-a-planetary-consciousness/?utm_source=noemalinkedin&utm_medium=noemasocial

Democracy itself will have to be reinvented in the age of planetary crises, the philosopher Achille Mbembe argues. We need a new generation of rights that do not depend on the nation-state.

19/01/2022

check out Immerse's latest newsletter that addresses the many facets of the and what they're keeping an eye on ⬇️

https://dotconnectorstudio.com/immerses-latest-newsletter-tackles-all-things-metaverse/

Immerse, a Medium publication, released their latest newsletter tackles the many aspects of the Metaverse.

14/01/2022

With ongoing conversations on the and internet culture, the concern w/ strengthens in a world of .

Read on Immerse in collaboration with Sam Gregory at WITNESS and Katerina Cizek at Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab. ⬇️

https://immerse.news/deepfake-tools-of-the-trade-22f30d2ced88

The following is an excerpt from a new report, JUST JOKING! Deepfakes, Satire and the Politics of Synthetic Media, co-produced by Sam…

11/01/2022

CALL FOR SIGNATURES AND PROJECTS❗️

Immerse, The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture & MIT Open Documentary Lab are seeking participants for a Public Artists' Statement that will be submitted to White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for the proposed US !

Participate & sign by tomorrow, 11/12, @ midnight ET ⬇️

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYZXYwG9nTzO6S4iehLLg2sBMivXijoyd4PApFCueDO4mfgg/viewform

07/01/2022

Will the make remote work feel less remote?

In his personal blog post, Bill Gates predicts the metaverse will soon hold most workplace meetings. Read the wrap up of his year-end thoughts and predictions ⬇️

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/bill-gates-metaverse-will-host-most-virtual-meetings-in-a-few-years.html

In a year-end blog post, billionaire Bill Gates predicted the use of the metaverse to replicate being face-to-face with co-workers, even while working from home.

04/01/2022

Happy New Year!

check out Immerse's last newsletter of 2021 with a glimpse at their latest stories and what they're keeping an eye on ⬇️

https://immerse.substack.com/p/making-the-metaverse?r=35n51&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

What a year! When we first started assembling this fall’s issue, we were still debating what the word “metaverse” might mean. And now, people are buying yachts in it. The line between reality and representation is becoming ever-blurrier. How did we get here, and what does all of this mean for ...

22/12/2021

“Regenerative industries and processes focus on developing self-renewing systems that take both natural and human resources into account. They recognize that both are finite.”

Read Jessica Clark's predictions for journalism in 2022 via Nieman Journalism Lab ⬇️

https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/12/from-extractive-to-regenerative/

"Regenerative industries and processes focus on developing self-renewing systems that take both natural and human resources into account. They recognize that both are finite."

21/12/2021

In October, West Virginia University launched its inaugural . Jessica Clark & Mark Glaser helped to support, design & produce the summit that featured a design thinking workshop.

Read more about the summit ⬇️

https://dotconnectorstudio.com/wvu-new-project-launch/

Dot Connector Studio’s Jessica Clark and Mark Glaser helped support, design, and produce WVU's inaugural Academic Innovation Summit.

10/12/2021

Can a podcast create an accessible experience with same feelings and pacing of their episodes?

Vox Media's podcast, 'More Than This', does just that with their beautiful "Immersive transcript". Read Sarah Scire's write up of the work via Nieman Journalism Lab ⬇️

http://ow.ly/Mjmu50H7GtN

The podcast More Than This had a challenge. How could they recreate the emotions, pacing, and atmosphere of their episodes without using any audio?