In what ways do you hope your screenings/exhibited/screened work engaged its audience and communicated a key concern of the studio? My main hope for engagement with our work is to raise awareness of disinformation and how easily one can be deceived by ideas that appear real but are not. If our work prompts the audience to pause and think critically about the ways they are exposed to disinformation and […]

This assignment is a written reflection of up to 800 words that responds to your studio’s final exhibition website in Week 13 as well as your experience of engaging with another studio’s website. The purpose of this assignment is to reflect on some of the key ideas and your learning in the studio and other studios through the lens and experience of the Week 13 website exhibitions of the studio’s final work. Your written reflection should address […]

    To enhance this work for a film festival, I would extend the duration to 15 minutes, allowing for a deeper exploration of key topics discussed in our interview with Meg. While our 5-minute documentary is commendable, expanding it would allow us to incorporate more insights and discourse from her interview, particularly delving deeper into the issue of disinformation. I would pay keener attention to her discussion of how […]

In today’s world, the prevalence of disinformation creates an unstable and confusing climate. Fact-checking is often insufficient, and numerous opposing voices make discerning truth from falsehood challenging. I approach the information we receive with a critical eye, considering who benefits from it and the motives behind its dissemination. Plato once warned that the greatest threat comes from those who believe they know the truth, who may act on falsehoods with […]

  I consider myself a diligent collaborator, setting high standards for both myself and the work I present. When working with a group, I offer them the opportunity to meet these standards collectively or allow me to take on the task myself to ensure it meets the desired level of quality. Fortunately, in this instance, my group agreed that our work should be of a high standard, which was fantastic. […]

An aside: When we considered whether weather documentaries could be useful tools in explaining, exploring, or even combating disinformation, I was definitely in favour of their usefulness.  According to Merriam-Webster, a documentary is “a presentation (such as a film or novel) expressing or dealing with factual events: a documentary presentation”, which lends them a certain credibility. Documentaries have long been heralded as valuable educational tools. They can shed light on […]

  Dr Meg Elkins is alarmed by the toll the internet is taking on all of our minds.  When we see disinformation online, we tend to believe it for a variety of psychological reasons. As one of the pioneering minds in the fields of disinformation and psychology, Meg empowers ordinary citizens with the tools to approach information critically.  THE RIGHTEOUS GENE is a five-minute documentary that illustrates the intricate workings […]

  Please find all the links you need to the three posts for Assignment #4, The Final Artefact and Reflection     Assignment #4 Truth be Told | Final Artefact | THE RIGHTEOUS GENE   Reflection #4.1 Documentary as a consciousness-raising tool Reflection #4.2 Collaboration Reflection #4.3 AI and Disinformation Reflection #4.4 The Final Artefact Reflection   Happy Navigating 🙂