Interview with Jedidiah. Pillar : Website.
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IC's voice uncensored
Friday night, end of term (or rather early saturday morning).
I finally overcame my 1001 technical issues, and my computer seems to have responded to my verbal threats of getting rid of it as soon as the semester is done.
Given that it is pretty late, I will make it short and sweet.
I finally overcame my 1001 technical issues, and my computer seems to have responded to my verbal threats of getting rid of it as soon as the semester is done.
Given that it is pretty late, I will make it short and sweet.
Skype interview with Jedidiah
It is March 16th, 2011.
The clock hit 1pm.
All of us were waiting for this moment.
"Hello?" [Caitlin]
"Hello Hello" [Jedidiah]
Today we got to officially Skype with Jedidiah from the Invisible Children!
Jedidiah has been with the Invisible Children for about 3 years, and he is currently working as a creative director and a brand manager for the organization.
We were so glad that we got an opportunity to connect with IC in person, and it was mind opening to be able to talk to someone from IC virtually but still face to face.
Although it is exciting to explore about something new, at least for myself, doing a research online on my pillar felt like sailing with no compass. But after our conversation with Jedidiah, I was able to see the 'person' behind the organization and I think I have a better sense of where I want to go with my research.
As for the first question, I asked Jedidiah about the significance of SNS in IC's project. He said that "social media is an important tool, but… [it is]… a facilitation of actual human engagement" and he believes the "fact that we connect in person" matters the most and the SNS are used to "live the echo of that connection online". He believes that SNS would not have the same degree of impact if there were no face to face communication to begin with. I think many people would find his point relevant on a personal level as Facebook users. Now I understand the role of SNS in IC's work as a way to "maintain a lot of supporters" (Jedidiah).
I will be posting more about our conversation about SNS with Jedidiah, but I will keep it here for now.
For about an hour, our team showered him with questions and Jedidiah was very supportive and answered each questions with an open mind. Thank you again Jedidiah!
We will be uploading the video clip of the whole interview soon so stay tuned :)
The clock hit 1pm.
All of us were waiting for this moment.
"Hello?" [Caitlin]
"Hello Hello" [Jedidiah]
Today we got to officially Skype with Jedidiah from the Invisible Children!
Jedidiah has been with the Invisible Children for about 3 years, and he is currently working as a creative director and a brand manager for the organization.
We were so glad that we got an opportunity to connect with IC in person, and it was mind opening to be able to talk to someone from IC virtually but still face to face.
Although it is exciting to explore about something new, at least for myself, doing a research online on my pillar felt like sailing with no compass. But after our conversation with Jedidiah, I was able to see the 'person' behind the organization and I think I have a better sense of where I want to go with my research.
As for the first question, I asked Jedidiah about the significance of SNS in IC's project. He said that "social media is an important tool, but… [it is]… a facilitation of actual human engagement" and he believes the "fact that we connect in person" matters the most and the SNS are used to "live the echo of that connection online". He believes that SNS would not have the same degree of impact if there were no face to face communication to begin with. I think many people would find his point relevant on a personal level as Facebook users. Now I understand the role of SNS in IC's work as a way to "maintain a lot of supporters" (Jedidiah).
I will be posting more about our conversation about SNS with Jedidiah, but I will keep it here for now.
For about an hour, our team showered him with questions and Jedidiah was very supportive and answered each questions with an open mind. Thank you again Jedidiah!
We will be uploading the video clip of the whole interview soon so stay tuned :)
And the response is...
...positive for the most part!
We just received some feed back from Professor Baines today in response to our proposal video. She seemed to enjoy our decision to make a video instead of writing out our proposal. I think it was also a great way for us to get used to the types of media and technology we will be using through out the project. In editing the video, we approached it as a sort of trailer for our project, just as any feature film has a trailer. And I think overall we presented the base of our project and where we want to take it well.
Professor Baines did have some constructive criticisms with regards to the enormity of our initial ideas for how we would carry out the project. I will admit that we do seem to have a pretty ambitious structure in mind, tying in many different media components. It will be a good idea for us to re-group following our interview tomorrow, as we will likely get a better sense of the direction we want to take the central question of our project after talking to Jedediah himself.
On that note, Professor Baines also suggests that we focus in on one specific question that will tie all of our pillars together. Right now, although we are all researching media, we are all sort of doing our own thing and then coming back to touch base with each other. We need to really get to the core of our arguments and agree on a central focus we want to each address with the different types of media.
Overall though Professor Baines was very excited for us to work on this project together. She has lots of faith in our ability to get our enormous project done if we choose to continue on with every aspect we outlined in our video. Thanks for the support Professor Baines!
Hello? Hello? Invisible Children's Silence
The five of us sent an email to Jason, Russell and Jedidiah the other day, asking for a brief interview with them for our research project on Invisible Children's various media tools and campaigns. Jason and Russell are both Invisible Children Co-Founders and Filmmakers, and Jedidiah is Invisible Children's Director of Public & Media Relations.
