Westminster disLAB presents…. A series of encounters with successful and inspiring digital storytellers

9 February 2017

Events

If you are interested in digital journalism, interactive documentary, apps for social change, educational video games or just digital communication, this series of encounters is for you. The aim is to invite students and young media makers to join the conversation with practitioners, so that together we can start creating the digital stories of the future.

“Westminster disLAB presents” is a series of free encounters organized by the digital and interactive storytelling LAB– a new MA due to open @Harrow in September 2017.

Westminster disLAB challenges the use of digital media to do exciting storytelling. It is about being creative and becoming the storytellers of the future. For this, it is important to be exposed to current practices, be inspired by great makers and dare to innovate ourselves.

By inviting successful digital storytellers to share their current projects and expertise in an informal setting, we hope to bridge the gap between industry and universities. Let’s start our future now.

Schedule of our initial series of events:

Hannah Gelbart (BBC Social Media)	Mon 27th February 7- 8 PM	What is it like to be a multi-platform journalist at the BBC? Hannah Gelbart openly shares what BBC wants from its social media producers.
Juliana Ruhfus (investigative journalist at Al Jazeera TV)	Mon 27th March 7- 8 PM	How can we use digital games to deliver hard news? Juliana Ruhfus presents the two games – Pirate Fishing and Hacked – she has produced at Al Jazeera TV
Ana Naomi De Susa (journalist at Forensic Architecture)	Mon 24th April 7- 8 PM	Digital truth: how to use digital media, journalism and architecture to discover what really happened
Sandra Gaudenzi (UoW), Mandy Rose & Judith Aston from University of West of England	Mon 22nd May 7- 8 PM	Why do interactive stories matter in a post Brexit world? The recently launched i-Docs book about interactive documentaries reveals how interactive stories are made today and why we need them. Meet the authors…