What: Screening and panel discussion on digital multimedia reporting with participants in Digital TV and the World's 2007 projects exploring:

·Chinese diaspora communities in San Francisco·
·Painting a picture of ordinary life in Guangzhou, China·

DVD copies and refreshments provided.

Digital TV and the World videos on-line:

Chinese Voices
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/interactives/chinesevoices/index.html

From an earlier project, Shanghai stories "Migrant" and "Evicted" also make a good discussion combination.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/emergingvoices/

Educators are invited to a screening and panel discussion with students from U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism to explore methods and experiences of digital multimedia reporting. Teachers may also invite a limited number of students to attend.

Digital TV and the World is an initiative to create new styles of global reportage that take a close-up look at ordinary people and the issues they face. Students in the program begin by telling the stories of people who live in diaspora communities in California, then examine the fabric of life in communities overseas by traveling abroad on intensive reporting assignments.

This workshop will view and discuss the initiative’s most recent digital reporting projects on the Chinese heritage community in San Francisco and contemporary life among ordinary people in Guangzhou, China.

In San Francisco the stories examine changes in the diaspora community now no longer confined to Chinatown. In reporting on ordinary life in Guangzhou, one story follows a wedding photographer on his happy jaunts, another looks at new wealth by following a woman fashion designer, another at the AIDS ward in a local hospital — graphic and tender, another the plight of migrant children trying to get a high school education, another about the risks investors are taking in the stock market frenzy, and one about injured workers and their search for compensation.

Co-sponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies and the Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) at U. C. Berkeley.

For further information contact Michele Delattre at ORIAS: 510-643-0868 or oriasberkeley.edu