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Professor of Innovative Content Strategies “Now Age Storytelling equips journalists and storytellers best for the fragmented digital media age. It is the great enabler to fully understand and apply digital methods within an integrated multi-media digital workflow.” – Marie Elisabeth Mueller In an increasingly connected but divided world, how can mobile storytelling help us share our stories? What opportunities does mobile technology have for social change and information sharing? What does it mean to produce content in a content-overloaded society, and how can increased media literacy help us to protect democracy? Marie Elisabeth Muller, a Professor of Innovative Content Strategies at the University of Stuttgart, spoke to Traces.Dreams about her work on mobile communication and storytelling. As a journalist, Marie is passionate about new opportunities for content creation using mobile technology, and believes that with proper media literacy, social media can help us to become mo...

We believe in making the world a better place, but while making our website a better place, we misplaced one of our videos! The good news for you is that you get to watch it again! Here is our video about the amazing project “The Global State of Young Scientists in Africa” a research project initiated by the Global Young Academy investigating the state of young scientists in & from Africa. Do you share a vision of a better world? Do you want to join our journey? Subscribe today to our channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoIW... More about the project: "Drawing upon the knowledge and experiences of the global network of GYA members, we initiated the GloSYS project by conducting a novel international pilot study, which provided a systematic overview of the diverse state of young scholars across the world. The study utilized a three-pronged mixed-methods approach, 1) gathering pre-existing statistical data and conducting literature and policy analyses, 2) collecti...

HDR director & senior lecturer in disaster risk reduction (construction management discipline) School of Architecture and built environment University of Newcastle, Australia “We’re trying to change the terminology around [so-called] natural disasters, as well as reducing their risk. The rule is that disasters effect the most vulnerable in society, because of certain structural conditions that aren’t an accident, but are by design.  “The way our societies are structured benefits a few people at the expense of others, and these are the things you don’t get to talk about if you use words like ‘natural disaster’”.  – Dr Jason von Meding, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Built Environment As long ago as the 1970s, scholars were already of the opinion that there’s no such thing as a truly natural “disaster”. Instead, there are simply conditions that allow for certain areas of society to be disproportionately harmed by natural events.  So, just how can we reduce ...

Professor of Innovative Content Strategies “Now Age Storytelling equips journalists and storytellers best for the fragmented digital media age. It is the great enabler to fully understand and apply digital methods within an integrated multi-media digital workflow.” – Marie Elisabeth Mueller In an increasingly connected but divided world, how can mobile storytelling help us share our stories? What opportunities does mobile technology have for social change and information sharing? What does it mean to produce content in a content-overloaded society, and how can increased media literacy help us to protect democracy? Marie Elisabeth Muller, a Professor of Innovative Content Strategies at the University of Stuttgart, spoke to Traces.Dreams about her work on mobile communication and storytelling. As a journalist, Marie is passionate about new opportunities for content creation using mobile technology, and believes that with proper media literacy, social media can help us to become ...

This is why I value that little phrase 'I don't know' so highly. It's small, but it flies on mighty wings. It expands our lives to include the spaces within us as well as those outer expanses in which our tiny Earth hangs suspended." – Wislawa Szymborska What is ‘art’? Why do we need it? How have artists throughout history been drivers for social change, and how can they continue to be so in a world that’s rapidly changing? Anne Murray, a nomadic artist and curator, spoke to Traces.Dreams about her work connecting artists around the world through her platform Cloud Conversations. As an artist herself, Anne has exhibited her work globally, and is passionate about helping artists to tackle issues such as racism, misogyny, homophobia, islamophobia, and other social concerns in their work, by setting up spaces where they can communicate with each other and grow. For her, art serves many purposes, from helping people to see they aren’t alone, to giving a voice to ...