23 May What keeps you up at night?
Sasha Costanza-Chock (Assistant Professor of Civic Media, MIT Department of Comparative Media Studies) and Lauren Pabst (Associate Program Officer in Media, Culture, and Special Initiatives at the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation) discuss the challenges facing documentary film.
Costanza-Chock talked about access to new technologies.
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Who has access? And by access that means physical access to the tools, to connectivity, to the skills, to the time, energy, and social networks it takes to do all those things effectively.
Pabst also mentioned access.
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The question of access is always a big one. We have such things as the digital divide that are impacting people.