{"id":251,"date":"2020-02-03T23:47:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T23:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/solesstories\/?page_id=251"},"modified":"2020-02-04T00:33:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T00:33:49","slug":"seeing-things-differently-digital-storytelling-for-social-justice-leadership","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/solesstories\/seeing-things-differently-digital-storytelling-for-social-justice-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Things Differently: Digital Storytelling for Social Justice Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the critiques I have of the way so much research is published and presented is that the research is intelligible and accessible to a small percentage of specialists. An underlying theme in my approach to disseminating the fruits of my research is \u201cthe democratization of knowledge.\u201d I want my research to contribute to the ways in which the human community needs to mature, particularly where the lack of communal human growth has forced some people into horrific living conditions and existential fear. If knowledge is to be democratized, research must be accessible and intelligible to a large and diverse community of persons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pete Bennett Blog #2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w7FiwoLyK5M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>The Digital Multimedia Story<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Digital Storytelling helps me to see things differently. I have done significant amounts of research on written media, namely, books and journal articles. I have presented the results of this research in similar ways. I remain a strong proponent of these textual qualitative methods and they will continue to be a valuable way to conduct and present research. However, as I began to engage in research using primarily photographic images and video, I began to see things differently. The process of organizing and presenting my research materials by editing photographs and producing multimedia presentations allowed me to see things differently than I would have through the more traditional methods with which I was familiar. An especially powerful example is the photograph I took, \u201cBest Dad Ever.\u201d I have long known about the plight of the immigrant family, and advocated empathy for families who take great risks only for the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">possibility<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of saving their own lives and the lives of those in their care. But looking through the camera lens at actual families who are doing this, and digitally editing the images of these families, helped me to understand the situation at a more visceral level. I was not looking at a new social injustice, but I was looking at it differently. My hope is that in presenting this research in a multimedia format on an accessible platform, more people also will begin to \u201csee things differently\u201d than they have before. Perhaps this new view will impact them at a deep affective level, and spring them into action on behalf of the oppressed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>A Catholic Ethic of Risk<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the reasons that persons who are immigrating are ignored or neglected is due to the process of \u201cothering.\u201d People easily, and unconsciously, classify those with whom they do not identify as \u201csomeone other,\u201d and because the other is not part of the social groups with which they identify, they don\u2019t bother with \u201cothers.\u201d Evolutionary psychology has identified internal processes that are responsible for this. In prehistoric times and beyond, a strong identification with one\u2019s social group was necessary for individual and group survival. However, the Gospel calls all humanity to a broader and more inclusive vision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The University of San Diego is a Catholic institution. Over the centuries, the Catholic Church has distilled some key theological and biblical themes to guide the Church in action that responds to social injustice. Two of these themes are: 1) the dignity of the human person, and 2) the call to family, community, and participation. Theologian Gemma Talud Cruz observes that these themes \u201cmake clear the message that when discipleship animates citizenship, meeting the \u2018other\u2019 is, ultimately, a sacred encounter\u201d (2011, 307). While she correctly notes that the Catholic Church is not \u201cspotless when it comes to fighting for the defenseless, [it] has a considerable record of taking great risks by standing on the side of the voiceless and powerless\u201d (2011, 309).\u00a0 Cruz concludes that any Catholic response to the phenomenon of othering must include an ethic of risk. This demands that we consciously become more vulnerable and move beyond our instinctual fear and rejection of the other that evolutional psychologists have identified. A Gospel response demands this. In imitation of Jesus, those who wish to be faithful to the Gospel and to the brothers and sisters of Jesus must risk the same vulnerability that Jesus embraced in his mission to serve all (Mt. 25: 37-40; Mk. 10:43-45).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I will add multimedia storytelling to my repertoire of research methods. This will make me a better researcher and abet my goal to democratize knowledge. Most importantly, I hope that it will bring to light the plight of persons in desperate need, persons just like you, and me, and those whom we love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cruz, G.T. (2011). Toward An Ethic of Risk: Catholic Social Teaching and Immigration Reform. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Studies in Christian Ethics<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">24<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(3), 294-310.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the critiques I have of the way so much research is published and presented is that the research is intelligible and accessible to a small percentage of specialists. 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