Bridging University and Community Through Digital Technology:

“Mobile Voices” and “Intersections”

USC Annenberg School Instituto de Education Popular del Sur de California (IDEPSCA)

Mobile Voices

Problem: Many immigrants lack computer access. Excluded from the digital public sphere, they have little voice in public debates

But many do have camera phones. VozMob lets them publish multimedia stories about their lives directly from phones

Cheap, intuitive, open-source

http://vozmob.net

community partnership

Open teaching / researchhttp://vozmob.net prototype site

http://blog.vozmob.net research bloghttp://wiki.vozmob.net project wikihttp://class.vozmob.net USC class wiki/syllabushttp://tags.vozmob.net delicious tags for ‘vozmob’http://list.vozmob.net project mailing lists

http://code.vozmob.net code repository (github)http://dev.vozmob.net bugs, features requests (redmine)http://devlist.vozmob.net development mailing list archive

irc: http://irc.freenode.net #vozmob

Uploads MMS from phone- cheap: any phone, pre-paid, MMS bundles- easy: voice, text, mms

Content management system- customizable: open source- multimedia: voice, text, pictures...- private: strip identifiable info

editexpandtagtranslateSubtitlelocatere-usere-mix (jquery)personal pages

Send to phones- push: sms, mms,…- pull: shortcodes

alertsdistribution listsmsg of the dayinstructablesetc…

Universal design- multiple outputs- many inputs

Weekly workshops with members of the popular communication team

Storytelling: narrated pictures

A woman who leaves her children in her homeland, to give them a better future...one better than hers. A woman whose voice cracks as she expresses the obligations of all those who find themselves at a disadvantage for being violators of the laws of this nation.A strong woman...Very strong! in the face of the emotional distress that she must feel through the separation of her children, for the desire of a better future.How many women like Jaqueline Rivera can we think of who have a wish, a human right, of a better future for their loved ones?With the murmuring of this voice, in chorus without end all of the murmurs:L E G A L I Z A T I O N!

giving a voice to the voiceless

Intersections: From classroom to community

USC Annenberg School of Journalism

Intersections: From classroom to community

USC Annenberg School of Journalism

Story: where space is scarce and faith is great

Intersections: From classroom to community

USC Annenberg School of Journalism

credits

watt way digital magazine staff (fall 2008)Adriana Venegas-Chavez, Ned Dannenberg, Brian Frank, Natasha Garyali, John Legittino, Sara Lerner, Amber Mobley, Christopher Nelson, Jessica Selva, Torey Van Oot, Laura Castaneda, Bill Celis intersections: the south los angeles reporting project Janelle Burdette, Wendy! Chapman, Jennifer Chapski, Marie Cunningham, Adriana Venegas-Chavez, Laura Castaneda, Bill Celis, Richie Duchon, Kaelyn Forde Eckenrode, Kaitlin Funaro, Zachary Gale, Dianne De Guzman, Brooke-Sidney Gavins ,Stephanie Harnett, Jonathan Horn, Billy Higgins, Lisa Holmes, Neila Jamee, Debory Li, Ariel Edwards-Levy, Newly Paul, Stefanie Peralta, Beth Palkovic, Lata Pandya, Esther Pomeroy, Mohammed Rahman, Jean-Luc Renault, Willa Seidenberg, Christopher Siciliano, Silva Silvian, Guillermo Vazquez, Claire Webb, Stephanie Wenger, Adrianna Weingold, Timothy Beck Werth

credits

crenshaw mentoring program Emily Henry, Shannon Carroll, Kate Carroll, Kim Daniels, Richie Duchon, Emily Elzer, Brian Frank, Amber Mobley, Jean-Luc Renault

fundingKnight Foundation – 2009 New Voices grantAnnenberg School for Communication – 2008 Dean’s innovation grantAnnenberg School of Journalism – 2008 Director’s digital initiative grant; 2009 Director’s digital initiative grant.

http://intersectionssouthla.orghttp://wattway.uscannenberg.org

creditsvozmob teamSteve Anderson, Murali Annavaram, François Bar, Melissa Brough, Mark Burdett, Adolfo Cisneros, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Pedro Espinosa, Amanda Garces, Maria De Lourdes Gonzalez, Carmen Gonzales, Chris Guitarte, Josh Haglund, Philip Javellana, Crispin Jimenez, Charlotte Lapsansky, Manuel Mancia, Gabriela Rodriguez, Marcos Rodriguez, Yazmin Trujillo-Arevalo, Cara Wallis

fundingAnnenberg Program on Online Communities (APOC)Social Science Research Council (SSRC)Nokia Research CenterMacArthur Foundation - Digital Media & Learning

graphicsadapted from originals by Rini Templeton (riniart.org)

http://vozmob.net