#100hardtruths Main Menu Pledges and lists written over the first 100 days A path through the primer focusing on the several pledges and lists of hardtruths I wrote during the first 100 days of the Trump administration 24 #100hardtruths authored by invited contributors A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths written by scholars, artists, activists, and friends Virality is Virility A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that connect a macho growing of digital stature to real world violence Fake News R Us A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that reveal our complicity Some #100hardtruths on Digital Media Literacy A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about reading, writing, participating and understanding Digital Media Literacy Some #100hardtruths on Racism A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about ethnicity, nationality, zenophobia, immigration and racism Some #100hardtruths on Sexism A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about gender, sexuality, sexism, and misogyny Some #100hardtruths on Images A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about photography, visibiity, and the power of images Some #100hardtruths on the Law A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about legislation, (il)legality, public institutions, and the power of the Law Some #100hardtruths on Advertising A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about corporate greed, getting eyeballs to content, the monetization of the Internet and Ads Some #100hardtruths of the Internet A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths that attempt to reveal the structure, logic, uses and power of the Internet Some #100hardtruths on Freedom of Expression A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about journalism, freedom of speech, and the power of Expression Some #100hardtruths on and through Film and Video A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about or spoken through film and video 35 #100hardtruths highlighting the work of others A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths produced by journalists, scholars, artists, activists found online Credits About the makers of this Scalar book. Old home page that links to Wordpress Some #100hardtruths in poetry Poems that were produced as a result of radical digital media literacy workshops Some hardtruth poem responses and readings

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A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths spoken about and through poetic, formally reflexive, non-indexical Art Forms.

Practicing strategic contemplation—what Rosylyn Rhee explains as having “to be comfortable being uncomfortable [because] so much of making documentary films is embracing the unknown”—is one of six “principles of feminist filmmaking” represented in Cámara Retórica: A Feminist Filmmaking Methodology for Rhetoric and Composition by Alexandra Hidalgo. The principles she elaborates point to one ethical media tradition that contemplates and thereby unmakes the frameworks that support fake news—truth/fiction, power and ownership within mediamaking and consumption—by engaging media logics outside of capital, including diversity, inter-dependence, mentorship, contemplation, and a primary commitment to social justice. (from #100hardtruths #16: practice strategic contemplation)
 

Contents of this path:

  1. #16: practice strategic contemplation
  2. #8: FAKE! by DOVEMAN+TOM KALIN+CRAIG PAULL
  3. #22: experimental escape routes needed
  4. #23: galvanize people at the crossroads of cinema and community
  5. #25: evidence of the opaque and intricate apparatus of our reality needed
  6. #31: look deeper into the migrant experience
  7. #34: place matters; re/flecting the border
  8. #37, size matters; we have to be minimalist
  9. #38, the NEA matters, fight for the least-seen to speak truth to power
  10. #39, reward responsible disobedience
  11. #40, challenge the narrative of (African) American progress
  12. #46, stay aware, not afraid
  13. #49, support cinematic solidarity against Islamophobia
  14. #52, address fears about beauty, disability and aging
  15. #70, reconnect the space that advertising has interrupted
  16. #74, stay open to contradictions and power #offline
  17. #81, call the man of the year a liar
  18. #82, explain your irrational destruction before the eyes of humanity
  19. #85, make productive fake documentaries
  20. #86: resist how we are framed
  21. #87, produce sites of-for-and-against cinema
  22. #91, we need the NEA and NEH to know how to imagine ourselves as a nation
  23. #92, our oral histories, our oral stories are our truth
  24. #97, digital participation is reflexive
  25. #100, speak and spell, teach and tell, count and swell