Braddock Workshop Slideshow (Flickr)

10 African-American boys took part in an 8-week after school Neighborhood Networks workshop at Braddock Library. Over the course of the workshop, youth explored and discovered how emerging online media technologies and the GigaPan system could be used to tell stories, document issues, and creatively define for themselves an identity for the Braddock neighborhood and its community. Activities focused on learning to use the power of images as a tool to look, document, share and comment. The group generated words to describe Braddock, captured those ideas in pictures and used online sharing software to publish and tag those images. Images were used to create handmade panoramas capturing local knowledge of footpaths and neighborhood shortcuts. Youth then moved into learning the GigaPan system and using it to document neighborhood spaces and images of relevance to them.

Project Keywords
new media literacy, technology fluency, networked images, participatory media