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SNITCH TRAILER: Engagement, empowerment and activism by socially networked audiences.

Attending Transmedia 4: Spreading Change last Friday at UCLA, I listened as Alden Stoner, VP of Social Action Film Campaigns at Participant Media described the efforts her politically progressive production company undertook to support this 2013 Dwayne Johnson thriller, in … Continue reading

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Truth In Advertising: Contagion and the Value of a Tell-All Trailer

A recent New York Times Opinion piece by the epidemiologist who consulted on the film CONTAGION, to ensure that the story was compatible with the science, makes a number of interesting observations about Hollywood representation and public health policy while … Continue reading

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