It is early in the process, but we will spend the next five weeks imagining, drafting, analyzing, revising, and rethinking your Public Awareness Projects in two forms: the "research" form (or, the historical-causal analysis essay) and the "real" form (in a suitable genre of your choice). I thought I would post some genre forms here for your perusal. What follows are links to various white papers, technical reports, digital ethnographies, advocacy documents, blogs, informational web sites, and brochures that may inspire some creative thinking on your own projects.
Of course, your genre form should grow out of your "research" form, so I am not suggesting that you decide on a genre first, and then try to shape a research project to fit it. Nor am I suggesting that you construct a genre form independently of how we have been theorizing empathetic, engaged, and civil discourse. I simply want to help you imagine the possibilities by viewing other genre forms that have grown from research projects.
- an informational website built around a Sustainability report distributed at Indiana University
- a related chain of documents for the National Resource Defense Council's "Call Off the Guns" campaign, responding to the bill allowing open hunting of protected gray wolves. It includes a webpage and message to members of the NRDC, an article, a television advertisement that aired on cable television, and an ENS news release on the outcome of the television advertisement
- digital ethnographies by Mike Wesch (Kansas State University) including "Information R/evolution," "The Machine is Us/ing Us," "A Vision of Students Today," and "Twitter and the World Simulation."
- the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report (IPCC) for 2007
- report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice
- informational websites for the "Bloomington Center for Sustainable Living" and the "National Park Service" (both are linked to our Course Resources page)
- blogs such as "Bloomington Alternative" and "Climate Storytellers" and "Tom Dispatch"
- any of the archives and repositories linked from our Course Resources page.
If you decide to incorporate images into your project and/or if your "real" form will be constructed around them, be sure to check out these resources for free, downloadable files:
Have fun browsing!
-Professor Graban
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