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Who’s Holding Documentary to Account?
Decolonizing the Documentary, Virtually: IDFA 2020
Double Exposure 2020: Investigative Documentary Investigated
Tools of the Trade: Documentary Makers Talk Gear
New Research Examines Crowd-Sourced Story Banks for Progressive Advocacy
Software Preservationists Need, Want—and Now Have–Better Fair Use Knowledge
New CMSI Study Reveals How Major TV Programs and Newspapers (Mis)Represented Homelessness and Housing Security Issues in 2018
The Walking Dead, Podcasts, Big Data: Tech and Film at SXSW 2019
IDFA 2018: Inclusion On and Off Screen
Fair Use and the Future of Digital Culture
CMSI’s ‘Rise-Up Media & Social Change’ Project featured at the 2018 International Social and Behavior Change Communication Summit
The Right to Decrypt Media Needs to Be More User-Friendly
Online News Association 2017: Is AI an Opportunity or a Monster? Yes
Fair Use Question of the Month
What is the America We See on Public TV? New Report from CMSI
Fair Use in Australia? How Knowledge Can Overcome Moral Panic
A Real Solution to YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY? How a Documentary Series Is Mobilizing Millennials to #PutAPriceOnIt
Leaving “Poverty Porn” Behind: Changing the Development Narrative
A Fair Use Code Changes Practice in the Visual Arts: The Numbers
Social Documentary Syllabus: Professor Larry Kirkman
“This is the Remix:” Perspectives on Configurable Culture
Diversity in Independent TV Documentaries: Is Public TV Different?
How Participatory Filmmaking Saved My Career
Q&A and Case Study With Claudia Myers, Director of FORT BLISS
Q&A With Georgiy Molodtsov, Winner of the “Media That Matters” Award for UNBIND YOURSELF
CMSI Co-director Brigid Maher’s Social Impact Documentary THE MAMA SHERPAS: MIDWIVES ACROSS AMERICA Premieres in California
Bleeding-Edge News at SXSW
Entertainment, Storytelling & Social Change in Global Poverty
Documentaries Telling Truth to Power
Organizing for Interactive Media
Good News: Growing Acceptance of Fair Use in Documentary
Assessing the Social Impact of Issues-Focused Documentaries: Research Methods & Future Considerations
Making Dangerous Docs: What We Know So Far
HathiTrust Decision: Good News for Media That Matters
Pull Focus: Doe Mayer
Holocaust Museum Repackages Multimedia Propaganda Exhibit for Media Literacy Educators
Well-Founded Fear: A Case Study
Case Study: Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
Blue Vinyl and the My House is Your House Consumer Organizing Campaign, 2002-2003
Case Study: Changing the World, One Documentary at a Time
Media Impact Thread at Sundance 2014
The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy – the Center’s new report explains how.
Outreach as a Central Element in Documentary Production
FAQ Set of Principles in Fair Use for Journalism
Social Justice Documentary: Designing For Impact
Answers to Common IP Questions for the Independent Documentary Filmmaker
Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges in Their Work
Mapping Public Media: Inside and Out
Anne Lewis and “Creative Vision”