Learn about the origins and projects of Dot Connector Studio, a Philadelphia-based media and strategy firm focused on cutting-edge social impact productions.
20. Launched in February, featured in workshops, classes, conferences in:
DC, NYC, Cambridge, Denver, Amsterdam, Jakarta, Budapest, British Columbia...
32. Five years down the line
• New services: strategic consulting, R&D, forecasting
• New associates/broader network of collaborators
• New clients: not more but bigger and more influential
• New productions: Immerse, MNR, Knight Commission
• Seeing theory transformed into practice (good and bad)
• Global perspective on how media/communications are
transforming—what changes and what stays the same
Lessons
• Take the leap
• Scaling up is not the only way to grow
• Don’t let one platform or format define you
• Journalism skills are transferrable
• Find your tribe, work your network
• “The only lasting truth is change”—Octavia Butler
Launched in late 2016, Immerse is a publication based on Medium, designed to spark an interdisciplinary conversation between practitioners and scholars about new forms of interactive and immersive nonfiction media.
Immerse writers examine the art and craft of emerging media covering impact, engagement, evaluation, ethics, aesthetics and other issues related to audiences and social change.
Question: How do we further equality in and through emerging media.
Something that we have not yet achieved in 500 years of mass media.