Abstract
This paper introduces a design model we call PARIS (Participatory, Accessible, Reflective, Impactful, and Sustainable) of community engagement used at a practicum in the Civic Media MA program. Last year during the COVID-19 pandemic, eleven graduate students worked with five communities in Chicago to amplify their voice and gain more political power through creative media work. First, we introduce the concept of designing a media project as being part of a community and alternative media. Second, we examine the challenges of the power dynamics during the design process and product of this media-based community engagement. Third, we offer the PARIS model as a practical framework to address power relations as part of a media-based community engagement. The civic media framework can help designers who are media activists or artists to genuinely engage with a community apply more equity and inclusion in their process of production to fight toward social justice.
Presenters
Yonty FriesemAssistant Professor and Graduate Programs Director, Communication, Columbia College Chicago, Illinois, United States Marefia Yisak
N/A, N/A, United States Teena Sloane-Hendriks
Serene Arena
graphic designer, Marketing & Communications, Nelnet, Wisconsin, United States
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Human, Centered, Design, Civic, Empathy, Nonviolence, Community, Engagement
