Stories from Cumberland
Stories from Cumberland is a six-part documentary series about the 2019 Youth Media Lab hosted by the University of North Texas Department of Media Arts. Join teaching fellow Rob Upchurch as he highlights the impact this media literacy and production workshop had on a group of young people in foster care.
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Expressing yourself can be hard, especially if it seems like other people are always deciding what is best for you and telling you who you are. As a research and social outreach initiative of the department of Media Arts at the University of North Texas, the Youth Media Lab seeks to educate young people from marginalized communities about the media they consume and how they can create their own to advocate for themselves.
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Media can be more complex than you think. There’s a reason they’re made, techniques are used to hold your attention, and certain perspectives are included while others are omitted.
Media literacy is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media. In this episode, the Cumberland residents learn these skills and prepare for two weeks of a high-impact media education!
Produced by Rob Upchurch for the UNT Department ...
One of the goals of the Youth Media Lab is to teach media production skills to young people in the North Texas community. After all, if we are teaching kids that media around them are constructed for a purpose, shouldn't they be given the ability to create and share their own messages?
Now that they knew about media literacy, the residents from Cumberland understood that they can, and do, make media on a regular basis. Pre...
One of the major outcomes the Youth Media Lab seeks is to enable young people from marginalized populations to advocate for themselves through media production.
Using the skills they were taught the week before, the Cumberland residents were broken into groups and given a week to produce their very own projects. There are no limits – except that they can’t show their faces – the story is theirs to tell!
Produced by Rob Upc...
After learning about media literacy and production for two whole weeks (during their summer vacation, no less!) the residents of Cumberland got to show off their hard work at a special screening held at Cumberland Presbyterian Children’s Home. This red carpet event had it all – posters, a projector, and even snacks!
Afterwards, a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for one of the residents testified to the newfound conf...
The summer 2019 Youth Media Lab allowed Cumberland residents to develop life skills and the ability to more effectively communicate with other people, and the teaching fellows were given valuable teaching experience. In the final episode of Stories from Cumberland, professors Vickery and Carter, the Youth Media Lab teaching fellows, staff and residents of Cumberland reflect on the summer 2019 Youth Media Lab.
Produced by R...
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