Activity

‘Refugee crisis’ participatory media project

How did the 'refugee crisis' become part of your daily life?

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Explores the borders

Korean Peninsula North Africa

Why

Within our project we tried to create a participatory environment to use the unique experiences as an asset to show a different side of the refugee crisis – the daily life encounters of people. We wanted to show an alternative to the abstract way the refugee crisis is represented in mainstream media.

Location

Lund, Sweden

Characteristics

Area

Within the course Media and Participation by Annette Hill (HT 2015) at Lund University we tried to create our own participatory project.

Audience

So we asked our class to participate and share their experiences about the refugee crisis. Every Blog post is a contribution from one of our fellow students of the course.

How it was done

writing
Bordr stories

How

Writing

Every Blog post is a contribution from one of our fellow students of the courses.

Bordr

Participants had the opportunity to share their unique stories in a medium we created, without any actual attempt to change their stories. Rather than one big story, we used a diverse approach that allowed for the uniqueness of the various stories. This view is more balanced; media content creates our reality but this project can maybe be understood as a tiny mirror of individual realities. It is not abstract nor shows the big picture – instead it shows many little ones.

 

 

 

 

 

Results

Bordr Stories

As part of this activity, Bordr stories were booked.

View more stories posted with this activity

The project was successful. We managed to get original user-generated content about a very important topic. It would be impossible to create a participatory project without participation.

 

http://witzenbe.wixsite.com/refugeecrisis2

http://www.kom.lu.se/en/department/refugee-crisis/

How it went

Main lessons learned

Our project a little different to what you can usually read in mainstream media. This view is more balanced; media content creates our reality but this project can maybe be understood as a tiny mirror of individual realities. It is not abstract nor shows the big picture – instead it shows many little ones. This working style led us to reflect the power the media elite has over circulating information. We need more alternatives to the big and abstract world, because if we all take small steps together, we can make a difference.

 

Inspiration

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/commentisfree

 

http://prezi.com/rxj9do-psupy/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

 

 

 

Credits

Kevin, Agne, Una, Burcum, Merilin, Quentina, and Christin

Activity Timeline

2015

  • Volunteer recruitment

    Professor Annette Hill  asks for volunteers to start a participatory media project within Media and Participation(HT 2015) course. 8 people join the project

  • First project meeting

    Members of the project group suggest themes for the project, after election the person whose theme was selected become the project coordinator – Burak Sayin offers  so called ‘refugee crisis’ as a theme. Burak Sayin elected as a project coordinator – Professor Annette Hill confirms the theme

  • Second Project Meeting

    Second Project Meeting

  • Project introduction to the class

    Project introduction to the class

  • Story gathering starts

    Story gathering starts

  • Final call for the stories

    Final call for the stories

  • Story editing and logging in

    Story editing and logging in

  • Project presentation to the class

    Project presentation to the class