2/21 Reflection
The truth is its been only a couple of weeks and I’m still working on contacts, which I feel like I need more time on as well. I’ve just started to work in the bigger world, called facebook, and I’ve found several groups and their administrators that I hope to get in contact with (to find out how serious they were about racism). Like the STOP RACISM! group, which seemed to be one of the biggest Anti-racism groups on facebook.
I’ve also succeeded in progressing my contact with other people, mainly those who have had a career in studying cultural anthropology and many other racism/ stereotype related majors. Everything seemed to go smooth with these people, except for the time difference problem. All the people that I’ve been in contact with have jobs, and I also have school. Then considering the 12~15 hour difference I had with these people made a great problem for me, especially when I wanted to schedule conferences and interviews.
But I hope to get one conference conversation that I’ve been working on for this week on this weekend, and have it as a hard product by next week. Good Luck to me and everyone else.
February 25th, 2008 at 8:58 am
The Voicethread experiment was a good way to get around the time zone obstacle.
You might consider tweeting for links to excellent social issue voicethreads to see how other people have used them to get the most input from around the world.
You might also subscribe to racism articles on Google News, for example, so your Bloglines will fill up with the latest news about this issue from around the world. That way, you have more stuff to think about and, in dead weeks, write or multimedia publish about.
Just a thought.
One last one: tweet for Australian, Chinese, Thai, Japanese, New Zealand, and Malaysian people to work with. They’re all in the same time zones, roughly.