Week 10 || Reaching “The Public:” Tech for Outreach, Education, and Activism
Speaker: Dr. Teddy R. Reeves

Readings:

#gOD Talk 2.0 | New Orleans, LA “Hip-Hop & #Black Faith (episode 7). Start watching from 55:15.

Alland, Alexander. SOCIAL MEDIA AND WATCH PARTY TOOLKIT. National Museum of African American History and Culture, https://nmaahc.si.edu/sites/default/files/images/god_talk_sm_kit.pdf.

Hansen, Carolyn. “Un-Hiding Maps @brooklynhistory: Strategies for Outreach in Times of Austerity.” Cartographic perspectives 69 (2011): 47–54. Web. https://web.s.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=0&sid=e64d8a9f-8280-4ff0-a0a8-83c62836977d%40redis [available through Mina Rees Library]

Marr, Devon. “YouTube as a Social Media Platform: A Comparative Study of the British Museum (London) and The Mütter Museum (Philadelphia).” ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2023. Print. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2828573185 [Available via Mina Rees Library.]

Writing

Come prepared to ask questions of Dr. Teddy Reeves about his experience doing outreach and web production for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Consider the variety of uses of social media, and what it means to truly be researching in and with publics.