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Connecting
Americans to Each Other
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The
RedBlue Project
RedBlue is an Internet-based
series of activities that offer Americans a compelling
alternative to today’s divisive on-line political
discourse – a way to engage directly with someone
on “the other side” of our divided political
landscape, in order to explore our differences and find
out what we have in common.
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SNAP
SNAP is an extraordinary
pilot series InterAct co-produced in August 2003 that fully
integrated webcams into a live television environment for
the first time. SNAP may be an historic first: live Internet
video, a live satellite feed, and live viewer call-ins
integrated into a nationally broadcast, professional-quality
live television program. An especially significant step
was the inclusion of genuine webcammers, because webcam
technology is used predominantly by the young and is projected
to grow exponentially among them. The enthusiastic response
from webcammers to being 'on television' suggests a new
kind of reality TV program: one that lets real people have
a voice on television, still the most powerful medium of
our time.
Watch the SNAP
demo.
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Everybody's
Guide to Somebodies & Nobodies
A new DVD and Documentary project about
dignity and rank. Watch the animation!
Click here to
watch.
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Community
Renewal Dialogues
This project
uses two-way interactive video-conferencing to reconnect
victimized individuals and communities to violent offenders
who will soon return to these communities. The Community
Renewal Dialogues project aims to increase the offenders'
sense of responsibility to those who were victimized,
while reintegrating them into community and family life.
The goal is to revive the social engagement that has
been lost to fear and isolation in high-crime neighborhoods.
Since 1999, the project has been linking inmates who
are learning to control their violent behavior at the
San Francisco and San Bruno Jails, with members of San
Francisco's Bayview and Mission District communities.
The project is carried out in cooperation with the San
Francisco Sheriff Department's Resolve to Stop the Violence
Program (RSVP), the Bayview Family Resource Center and
Youth Opportunity San Francisco. The videoconference
technology eliminates the need for complex security clearance
processes that would be necessary for jail visits, minimizing
the intensity of face-to-face meetings in the jail. Mediated
dialogue formats include:
• Employment
Links - job interviews with near-release
offenders.
• Family Links - victimized family members in facilitated
dialogues with inmates.
• Youth Links - dialogues between inmates and at-risk
teens
about the reality of life in jail.
• Survivor Restoration Links – survivors of violent
crimes
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Urban
Rural Dialogues
Minnesota Citizens' Forum
The success of the KTCA-TV Interactive Candidates'
Debate on October 30 1998 and its citizen participation process
has led to a continuation of two-way programming. Another series
of six monthly links between the Governor of Minnesota and
citizens gathered at three locations around the state was broadcasted
live by KTCA-TV and MPR. A videoconference unit and the transmission
costs were provided by InterAct with a grant from the Pew Center
for Civic Journalism.
Other programs were developed as the growing
number of Minnesota communities connected with the studio
and each other. These include:
PROM NIGHT QUIZ - live linked teens and their families, viewers and studio guests
took the Star Tribunes sobriety test together.
URBAN RURAL DIALOGUES - A series of four discussions linked the rural farm town
of Crookston, Minnesota, which has recently experienced losses of traditional
family farms, to the Public Policy Forum at Lucille's Kitchen Restaurant in North
Minneapolis. This urban/rural discussion aired live on Minnesota Public Radio
(MPR) and was covered on KTCA and in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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