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May 15, 2023
Published by SIE SOCIETY at May 15, 2023
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The Power of Storytelling (Book)

This field companion to The Storytellers’ Guide to Changing Our World 2.0 is intended to make creating an abundance of impact stories—a culture surge, if you will—easier. It is especially written for artists and organizers who want to collaborate in telling engaging impact stories in any media to make their neighborhood, state, country, or planet a better place.
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March 20, 2023
Published by SIE SOCIETY at March 20, 2023
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Writing About Paid Family & Medical Leave Reader

U.S. workers go it alone–we have no guaranteed paid leave for per- sonal health and family caregiving needs. Every year, tens of millions of working people in the U.S. wel- come a new child, face serious in- jury...
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March 20, 2023
Published by SIE SOCIETY at March 20, 2023
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What TV Stories Tell Us About Gun Safety, How These Depictions Affect Audiences, and How We Can Do Better

On average, 110 people are killed by guns every day in the United States, with Black Americans disproportionately impacted. Young Black men are 20 times more likely to be killed by a gun than young white men...
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March 20, 2023
Published by SIE SOCIETY at March 20, 2023
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How Entertainment TV Portrays Civic Leadership and Civic Engagement in the United States

Watching Out for Democracy is an independent research project of the Center for Media & Social Impact (CMSI), under the Civic Leadership Stories Project. Under the direction of Principal Investigator Caty Borum and Lead Researcher Paula Weissman...
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March 20, 2023
Published by SIE SOCIETY at March 20, 2023
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Narrative, Power and Polarisation: The Role of Influential Actors

In societies marked by deep social divisions, powerful individuals and organisations play a key role in building up narratives which promote either peaceful engagement or polarisation that can lead to violence.
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March 20, 2023
Published by SIE SOCIETY at March 20, 2023
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TV’s Plastic Problem Can Hollywood Help Us Imagine a Future Without Plastic?

lip the Script on Plastics is an initiative to help the entertainment industry model real solutions to the plastic pollution crisis, both on set and in storylines. We know that life imitates art, and by showing package-free and reusable and refillable systems in popular television shows and movies...
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March 20, 2023
Published by SIE SOCIETY at March 20, 2023
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The Climate Crisis is Virtually Nonexistent in Scripted Entertainment

In 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that climate change is now accelerating faster than we can adapt to it. Despite its long history of being politicized in the United States, research suggests a large majority of Americans are concerned about climate change, and this concern is increasing.
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March 20, 2023
Published by SIE SOCIETY at March 20, 2023
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Change the Narrative, Change the World 2022

Define American, with USC Norman Lear Center’s Media Impact Project, presents our third television impact study: Change the Narrative, Change the World: The Power of Immigrant Representation on Television.
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