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Atavist

Atavist
Atavit Digtal Story by Madi English, JMU
Personal Narrative

Madi English describes her grandfather's battle with dementia, the impact on her family, and the national discussion to build awareness.

Caroline Marney's Digital Story from DigiComm's Tutor Training Coure.
Personal Narrative

Caroline Marney describes her father's experience with a degenerative ocular disorder and the implications for technology and usability.

Alexa Senio's Digital Story: CavStrong
Cultural Analysis

Alexa Senio explores the implication of "public marginalia" through an analysis of her high school's response to student suicides.

Digital Story from James Madison University's ISAT 456
Bioethical Analysis

Team project analyzing ethical the implication of Introvenus Fertilization and the possibility of "Designer Babies."

Digital Story from James Madison University's Marking Course
Marketing Analysis

A team of business students marketed the use of fidget cubes for stress management in high tech workplaces.

Digital Story from James Madison University's ISAT 456
Biomedia Research

Team project analyzes the ethical implications of people's rights and justice in biomedical research.

Environmental Advocacy

Analysis the environmental implications of Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) and an advocacy action plan to fight factory farms. 

Ethical Analysis of Higher Education

Team of freshmen students in an introductory Communications course investigate the ethical role and purpose of Higher Education in Society.

Marketing
Package

A team of business students created a mock sales-analysis with a first-person description of their marketing approach for cold-pressed juice.

Wix

Wix

Writing:
Community Engagement

The Second Chance Podcast investigates the lives of ex-convicts who learned trade skills in prison and contributed to their communities after their release. 
 

This project came from a course-wide project. The class worked in teams to conduct research, identify potential interviewees, transcribe interviews, and work on audio editing. The professor interviewed all of the ex-convicts and a DigiComm Media Fellow facilitate the web and audio production.

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Audio editing software: Adobe Premiere.

Health Sciences: Ethical Analysis

Team project investigating the ethical considerations for stress and anxiety prevention at James Madison University.

Health Sciences:
Ethical Analysis

Team project investigating the ethical considerations for healthy body image for students at college.

Environmental Analysis

Analysis of food waste at college campuses, national food waste data, and avenues for individual impact to make a change.

Spark Pages

Spark Pages

Journalism

Marissa Scholler recreates a student's experience in Charlottesville, Virginia during the white supremacist rally on August 12, 2018.

Digital Storytelling

Caroline Marney created a resources on how the best practices for creating an effective digital story
(how meta!) 

Adobe Spark Gallery

Adobe Spark has a collection of examples of Spark pages, videos, and graphics. Check them out for more examples.

Professioal Examples

Professional Examples

Washington Post

"After the Storm" is an interactive web project that explores the devastation of a deadly tornado that hit Tuscaloosa, Alabama on April 27, 2011.

New York Times

"Norway the Slow Way" explores the culture of Norway through Reif Larsen's story of his family's journey up the Norwegian coastline.

NPR + Planet Money

"Planet Money makes a T-shirt" explores the garment industry from cotton, machines, people, and boxes that make their t-shirt possible and deliver it to you.

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