Academic review of my anthology highlights gender themes, the hamam stories put people on planes
Now you can listen to KIP's Emerging Narrative...thanks to AI voice generator
Consider this audio a companion to the Bigger Picture video of various quotes I’ve collected rather than a mirror image…there’s more to this multifaceted story.
“A unique curation of emergent voices describing this moment we find ourselves in.”
This is my first experiment with AI voice generation using a script made from individual quotes from civic participators I’ve been tracking for last past 7 years, describing this moment we find ourselves in. Quote credits in the images below and a full list to come.
KIP DECK
AMUSE BOUCHE. Other slides on request.
2024 Progress Report: The Bigger Picture
Wearing my ‘serial founder exploring starting a company’ hat, I advanced my passion project KIP3.
KIP is a seven-year long passion project to tackle the disinformation problem on social media that makes us poor information citizens and polarized neighbors who cannot take collective action in the face of threats like the climate crisis.
The bigger picture, in your words
With my KIP project to make sense in the social age and surface the best civic participators - or members of “the Fifth Estate”, - I’ve been collecting the contributions on Twitter.
For a couple years I made graphic images of quotes I spied. I put some of them together into a larger narrative of our time, and this moment. Take a look!
Below is a short version of the narrative in the video. See the video for quote credits.
“The Bigger Picture” In Snippets From Emergent News Contributors Curated By KIP
Good news from The Presidio Trust Board of Directors
Which national park had 9.6M visitors this past year - Yosemite? Zion? Grand Canyon? Nope, they had about half that. Answer is: The Presidio.
What a pleasure it is to see the accomplishments of the Presidio Trust - and Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy - at last night’s public board meeting.
We also heard about a collaborative plan to extend The Presidio’s nature corridor throughout San Francisco, to green this city and pioneer a model for the nation, starting with local low income poor health areas.
Thanks to Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and the Inflation Reduction Act, The Presidio will be able to update the WW2 infrastructure of the park.
"Social media has held politics and media to account"
Journalism & Backsliding Democracy was a good journalism-democracy-disinformation panel with Jay Rosen at New York University School of Journalism for the Cambridge Disinformation Summit last week.
From my live notes: “Social media has held politics and media to account,” said former director of BBC News Richard Sambrook, hitting the nail on the head!
Social media is not just part of the #disinformation problem, it’s part of the solution as I’ve been contending with my Fifth Estate-holding-power-to-account project: KIP! (Read about it here.)
The hitch: knowing which are the good actors on social media and which are the bad actors.
My live notes: Jay said we need smart practices to solve the hardest problems in news coverage, like if you had a “Category of bad actors” you could put a source in you’d be better prepared. 🤔
That sounds very much like the categorization I’ve been structuring with KIP.
