Beyond Film Impact Assessment: Being Caribou Community Screenings as Activist Training Grounds
This article draws from a multiyear study of the impact of Being Caribou to propose a model of how social movements build participation and leadership through community film screenings. From 2004 to 2005, hundreds of thousands of people saw Being Caribou at volunteer organized community and house pa...
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ftjijoc:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/5796 2023-09-05T13:16:57+02:00 Beyond Film Impact Assessment: Being Caribou Community Screenings as Activist Training Grounds Roburn, Shirley Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Luc Beauregard Fellowship Program Concordia University Fonds de recherche Societé et culture the Northern Scientific Training Program W. Garfield Weston Foundation the Alaska Wilderness Leagu 2017-06-14 application/pdf https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/5796 eng eng USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/5796/2065 https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/5796 The International Journal of Communication is an academic journal. As such, it is dedicated to the open exchange of information. For this reason, IJoC is freely available to individuals and institutions. Copies of this journal or articles in this journal may be distributed for research or educational purposes free of charge and without permission. However, commercial use of the IJoC website or the articles contained herein is expressly prohibited without the written consent of the editor. Authors who publish in The International Journal of Communication will release their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) license. This license allows anyone to copy and distribute the article for non-commercial purposes provided that appropriate attribution is given. For details of the rights authors grants users of their work, see the "human-readable summary" of the license, with a link to the full license. (Note that "you" refers to a user, not an author, in the summary.) This journal utilizes the LOCKSSsystem to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. The publisher perpetually authorizes participants in the LOCKSS system to archive and restore our publication through the LOCKSS System for the benefit of all LOCKSS System participants. Specifically participating libraries may:Collect and preserve currently accessible materials;Use material consistent with original license terms;Provide copies to other LOCKSS appliances for purposes of audit and repair. Fair UseThe U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 specifies, in Section 107, the terms of the Fair Use exception: Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, International Journal of Communication; Vol 11 (2017); 20 1932-8036 documentary film Being Caribou film impact assessment civic engagement social movement storytelling engagement organizing infrastructure info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2017 ftjijoc 2023-08-17T05:36:00Z This article draws from a multiyear study of the impact of Being Caribou to propose a model of how social movements build participation and leadership through community film screenings. From 2004 to 2005, hundreds of thousands of people saw Being Caribou at volunteer organized community and house party screenings that served as activist training grounds for the Alaska Coalition’s Arctic Refuge campaign. Drawing on media history and civic engagement research methods, I establish how these screenings built on previous movement storytelling efforts and infrastructures to knit communities and organizations together; deepen investment in Arctic Refuge protection; and strengthen the skills, organizing capacity, and “leadership-in-practice” of a broad swathe of individual activists. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Alaska IJOC - International Journal of Communication (USC Annenberg Press) Arctic |
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This article draws from a multiyear study of the impact of Being Caribou to propose a model of how social movements build participation and leadership through community film screenings. From 2004 to 2005, hundreds of thousands of people saw Being Caribou at volunteer organized community and house party screenings that served as activist training grounds for the Alaska Coalition’s Arctic Refuge campaign. Drawing on media history and civic engagement research methods, I establish how these screenings built on previous movement storytelling efforts and infrastructures to knit communities and organizations together; deepen investment in Arctic Refuge protection; and strengthen the skills, organizing capacity, and “leadership-in-practice” of a broad swathe of individual activists. |
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The International Journal of Communication is an academic journal. As such, it is dedicated to the open exchange of information. For this reason, IJoC is freely available to individuals and institutions. Copies of this journal or articles in this journal may be distributed for research or educational purposes free of charge and without permission. However, commercial use of the IJoC website or the articles contained herein is expressly prohibited without the written consent of the editor. Authors who publish in The International Journal of Communication will release their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) license. This license allows anyone to copy and distribute the article for non-commercial purposes provided that appropriate attribution is given. For details of the rights authors grants users of their work, see the "human-readable summary" of the license, with a link to the full license. (Note that "you" refers to a user, not an author, in the summary.) This journal utilizes the LOCKSSsystem to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. The publisher perpetually authorizes participants in the LOCKSS system to archive and restore our publication through the LOCKSS System for the benefit of all LOCKSS System participants. Specifically participating libraries may:Collect and preserve currently accessible materials;Use material consistent with original license terms;Provide copies to other LOCKSS appliances for purposes of audit and repair. Fair UseThe U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 specifies, in Section 107, the terms of the Fair Use exception: Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, |
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