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    HOMETOWN: Exploring Escapism Through Meta-Narrative
    (2020) Wiedner, Andrew J.; Marc Russo; J. Mark Scearce; Chris Martens
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    Shift
    (05-2022) Barron, Courtney; Mark Russo; J. Mark Scearce; Pat FitzGerald,
    This paper documents the research, development, and creation of the interactive animated film titled Shift. Using digital 2D animation software as well as 3D programs and game development software, Shift takes a look at how social polarization can affect our personal lives. Using the genre of speculative fiction as a vessel, this project pushes polarization to the extreme in a future setting and follows two individuals and their experiences in this polarized world. To accurately explore the issue of social polarization and present it in a compelling and effective interactive narrative Shift has three main points of research. The first point of research is to investigate the current state of polarization, its causes and history, and related concepts like group polarization and confirmation bias. The second point is exploring speculative fiction, its precedents, and how it can be used to address issues in today’s world. The final point of research involves the methods for creation, exploring precedents who have implemented similar aesthetic, narrative, or interactive elements and how this implementation has succeeded or failed. This research provides the foundation for Shift’s narrative development and structure, as well as its visual development and overall aesthetic. Shift ultimately prompts the user to critically think about their own relationship with polarization and how they might change the way they interact with others to create a brighter, less polarized future.
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    SHROUDED : Transmedia storytelling in a post-pandemic world
    (02-2021) Tasnif, Kulsum; J. Mark Scearce; Kathleen Reider; Dr. Kate Greder; Jedidiah Gant,
    Loss has played an undeniably significant role in my life, and by extension has become a unifying theme in my art for the past twenty years. Experienced in the realities of loss, I have approached this topic from various vantages from the political to the personal. Through this project, I present a universal outlook. The pandemic has set the stage for us to observe and participate in the very human experience of grief and loss--and perhaps more interesting, our ability to grow and learn from it. How do we as complex individuals and as a collective society find the facilities to cope when faced with life’s inevitable challenges that so often affect our mental well-being? Storytelling is at the heart of this project. Phase one examines Instagram as an interactive, ever-evolving platform to dive into deeper, more meaningful content. Phase two explores a podcast as the medium to maximize the impact of candid conversations, spoken word, and auditory reflections. The purpose of this undertaking is to understand traumas and triumphs we as a society have faced and embraced as a result of isolation and loneliness brought on by the pandemic by highlighting shared experiences through curated collective narratives. Thus, SHROUDED, or Kafan, meaning “shroud” in Arabic, is a transmedia series that explores the universality of loss by integrating organic storytelling with digital technologies to evoke complex emotions. Incorporating components such as social and digital media, these mediums tell stories not only of what we have lost, but of what we have found.
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    The Naturalist’s Challenge:
    (05-2022) Willett, Erin; Tania Allen; J. Mark Scearce; Justin Johnson; Jay Levine
    How might an interactive web experience educate participants to climate change solutions related to food, agriculture, and land use while instilling them with a level of personal agency to make a difference? The Naturalist’s Challenge, an online game application, educates participants to sustainable habits related to diet and consumption while giving structure to enable successful integration of new habits into the player’s everyday life. It leverages the innate sociability of games to create a community that expands the positive environmental impact and spreads through social networking to help combat the climate crisis. Unlike others of its kind, The Naturalist’s Challenge, directly approaches issues within our global food system to educate users about things that can be done at an individual level to help reverse global warming. A key aspect of the project is that it aims to inspire, create agency, and bring hope. Its key precedents are carbon tracking apps, behavioral modification apps, and cooperative simulation games. Climate change is an ever-impending issue that our world is in the midst of grappling with. The International Panel on Climate Change, who documents the progress of global warming, just released a report that we have entered into ‘Code Red for Humanity’. However, when talking about climate change, many people feel hopeless that any individual action can make a difference. The good news is that things can still change and understanding the options is the first step. The food, agriculture, and land use sector contributes a whopping 24% of all greenhouse gas emissions. This is an area where individuals can make the most difference. The Naturalist’s Challenge targets this sector and related consumer habits and combines it with the theories of learning through play and behavior modification through gamification to create an engaging, educational structure for individual and community change.
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    Transmedia storytelling in a post-pandemic world
    (02-2021) Tasnif, Kulsum; J. Mark Scearce; Kathleen Reider; Kate Greder; Jedidiah Gant
    Loss has played an undeniably significant role in my life, and by extension has become a unifying theme in my art for the past twenty years. Experienced in the realities of loss, I have approached this topic from various vantages from the political to the personal. Through this project, I present a universal outlook. The pandemic has set the stage for us to observe and participate in the very human experience of grief and loss--and perhaps more interesting, our ability to grow and learn from it. How do we as complex individuals and as a collective society find the facilities to cope when faced with life’s inevitable challenges that so often affect our mental well-being? Storytelling is at the heart of this project. Phase one examines Instagram as an interactive, ever-evolving platform to dive into deeper, more meaningful content. Phase two explores a podcast as the medium to maximize the impact of candid conversations, spoken word, and auditory reflections. The purpose of this undertaking is to understand traumas and triumphs we as a society have faced and embraced as a result of isolation and loneliness brought on by the pandemic by highlighting shared experiences through curated collective narratives. Thus, SHROUDED, or Kafan, meaning “shroud” in Arabic, is a transmedia series that explores the universality of loss by integrating organic storytelling with digital technologies to evoke complex emotions. Incorporating components such as social and digital media, these mediums tell stories not only of what we have lost, but of what we have found.