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The Center for Media and Social Impact (CMSI), formerly the Center for Social Media, analyzes and promotes cutting-edge strategies for media that matters, and generates codes of best practice that facilitate participatory public media. In addition to film series, workshops, and research, the center has resources on social documentaries and public media practices. Reports, studies, white papers, film profiles, filmmaker interviews, and case studies of successful outreach and audience engagement strategies and new media practices are available at www.centerforsocialmedia.org/.
The Center for Environmental Filmmaking (CEF) was founded on the conviction that films and new media are essential educational and policy tools in the struggle to protect the environment. The center’s mission is to train students to produce films and new media that focus attention on the need to conserve the environment in a way that is effective as well as ethically sound, educationally powerful, and entertaining. The world faces unprecedented environmental challenges, from climate change to species extinction, but powerful images and films can capture our attention and alert millions to the value of protecting the natural world. With the right combination of creative thinking, enthusiasm, practical knowledge, altruism, and a commitment to the natural world, today’s students will become tomorrow’s environmental stewards. For more information, go to www.american.edu/soc/cef.
The Investigative Reporting Workshop is the only university research center in the world that specifically examines new models for enabling and disseminating investigative reporting. The Workshop undertakes significant, original, national and international investigative reporting projects for multimedia publication or broadcast in collaboration with others, and serves as a laboratory “incubator” to develop new economic models and techniques for conducting and delivering investigative journalism. For more information, go to http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/
The AU Foreign Correspondence Network (FCN) provides students tools and guidance needed to work overseas, through coursework and AU alumni living abroad. The FCN is a platform for discussion about the coverage of international issues affecting the United States, and is maintained under the guidance of a former foreign correspondent for UPI and Newsweek. For more information, go to: www.american.edu/soc/partnerships/foreign-correspondence-network.cfm.
The Backpack Journalism Project is mapping the landscape of emerging techniques and technologies for visual storytellers and educating the next generation of video journalists in the spirit and tradition of photojournalism and documentary filmmaking. The project promotes the highest standards and showcases best practices in the effort to train, equip, and inspire backpack videomakers. For more information, go to www.american.edu/soc/backpack/.
The Summer Film and Video Institute provides hands-on experience for experienced film and digital media professionals as well as beginners through both credit and non-credit courses. The courses, taught by AU faculty and area professionals, and are offered in the evenings and on weekends, beginning in mid-May. The Summer in LA Program includes classes with entertainment industry professionals as well as internships at Hollywood studios and production houses. For more information, go to www.american.edu/soc/film/film-digital-media-institute.cfm.
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