Fig. 1.1 – SKAM Austin promotional photograph (from Deadline - 2018) “SKAM Austin is a unique, inventive and fresh approach to online content and entertainment. The series takes a realistic and authentic approach to telling stories of American teenagers from their point of view. It’s not only a series but an immersive storytelling experience that rolls out in real time across various platforms. The sophomore season, like the first, will be full of digital elements and Easter eggs, building a fan frenzy that you can see firsthand in the show’s Facebook Group…” - Dino Ray-Ramos of Deadline (my emboldening) A mostly ‘Western’ international phenomenon, SKAM – the Norwegian term for ‘shame’ – is a teen drama originally set in Norway. The series distinguishes itself through its ‘authentic’ (Banet-Weiser, 2012; Cunningham & Craig, 2017) representations of high school students as they migrate to Hartvig Nis...
The Fab Collab - a room full of possibilities https://share.roomful.co/room/f8d9f79xn9wtmx Hello visitors! Welcome to ‘the Fab Collab’. I'm Emma - founder of the organization, and believer in all sad, happy, sweet and human things. If you asked me to describe our community in a sentence, I'd say we are committed to revealing and rectifying systemic inequalities; our work begins by identifying practices that reinforce unequal distributions of power in our local environments. At present, our collective is comprised of passionate people that contribute, through their own methods and according to their own beliefs, to creating new ways of being in the world. I began work in community organizing in high school [as a member of YAADA [1] and GSA [2]] , though I gained invaluable experience working with two other women to build 'TOPICS dealing with dating violence' as a viable, student-lead community organization at Clark University. As a co-founder of TOPICS [...