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Humanitarian Issues in Need of Serial Storytelling
Natural Disasters The hour by hour, day by day, process of search, rescue, recovery, and relief are among the most powerful unfolding reality dramas on earth. Public support often depends upon sustained exposure to these scenes. But news coverage can be sketchy. Reporters are often tied to stationary satellite dish locations. Video agencies are under pressure to move quickly from one location to another. Disasters can become of a string of mind numbing images of suffering strangers. But if you use your own cameras to follow the drama in one, or a few select locations, you can tell the personal stories of individuals over the period of days. Social media audiences can get an in depth feel for the people affected.
Health Care The possibilities are far too many to list here. Every global health issue from HIV-AIDS, immunisation, malaria, malnutrition and many more, are all social media reality serial dramas waiting for you to produce and post.
Drought Serial Storytelling Video can show us the day by day drama of survival, and give the public a compelling drama to follow.
Sexual Violence You don’t need to see it happen in order to see the effect it can have to the day to day lives of victims. This is a story that is too often left untold, yet can be a potent social media serial drama.
Keep Girls in School If you follow the life of a female child in danger of loosing her right to learning for a week or so you will see the reasons why this is such a huge, yet largely under exposed saga. Young girls in some cultures are under enormous pressure not to go to school. It is a heartbreaking waste of minds. Serial Storytelling can bring this issue to a social media audience.
Women Empowerment From micro loans to voting and other human rights, in-depth stories about struggle for the empowerment of women are mostly print articles. And hats off to the print media for that. It is high time that Serial Storytelling Videos fulfilled their potential for bringing us more into women’s lives, especially in developing areas. We need a way to understand their hopes and obstacles. Serial Storytelling Videos can do that.
Youth Depression, Drug Use, Bullying, Suicide That’s a basket full of problems. And each topic is loaded with real dramas which can be told in Serial form and posted to social media sites.
Education The challenges facing educators are enormous, not the least of which is gaining public support for a multitude of initiatives from very early life schooling, right through to higher education. Failure to properly educate future generations comes at a huge cost in terms of lost skills, national economic hardships, and potential global conflict. Serial Storytelling Video is an excellent way to better engage the voting, and donating, public.
Faith Based If you are a religious leader or thought leader on issues of faith, you are these days faced with the challenge of getting your message past the distractions of online social media. But with Serial Storytelling Videos you can be a player in social media. Every religious group is made up of people with great personal stories. Serial Storytelling helps to package those stories into episodes that people can follow and share with their friends.
Food and Water Security Wars can and, some believe will, erupt over food and water security. If your interests include these issues, then you can help move them closer to the surface of public awareness through Serial Storytelling Video. If you would like some suggestions, contact me.
Corporate Responsibility In some cases a multi-national might be causing hardship. In other cases a corporation might be setting a good example. Whatever your perspective, Serial Storytelling Videos can help make your case to a global audience.
Reproductive Rights This emotive topic goes to the heart of strongly held views on several related issues: A woman’s right to control her own body. An unborn’s right to live.
End of Life Issues If you have a stake in the debate over euthanasia, hospice environments, home care, medications, nursing care, therapy, or other related issues then your point of view can be presented to a mass audience with Serial Storytelling Videos which xxxxxxx
War Victims The physical, emotional, and economic affects of war can last long after the news camera have left. If you are involved in helping to support victims of war, Serial Storytelling can help you keep their stories, and needs, alive and current.
Civil Society Breakdown and Community Empowerment Many villages, even entire cultures are under threat, the fabric of their societies, their hierarchies, and traditions are disappearing due to wars, foreign occupation, civil unrest, disasters, and other causes. This can result in dysfunctional societies and nations. If you are a professional in this field, then you will know what is required for your particular project area. And if your needs include greater public awareness and support, Serial Storytelling can help you to illustrate how and why it is so important for those societies to survive.
Child Pornography This is a phenomenon which the overwhelming majority of us agree is evil. There are occasional news reports, and a fair amount of print coverage. But there is relatively little ongoing social media engagement about children being exploited this way. This is in large part because of the ethnics of filming children, in any setting. However, if this is your humanitarian field you can probably find ways of using Serial Storytelling to show that these children have names, hopes, families, and many problems. That, after all, is the point of Serial Storytelling, to get to know the subject.
Refuges In the news profession, especially tv news, coverage of this massive problem is dependent upon several variables beyond your control including, a) a surge of refugees, b) sensational or timely video, and 3) celebrity involvement. But with Serial Storytelling you can build your own effective narrative for social media.
Human Trafficking Like many issues this also relates to another, child pornography. But trafficking is also about the exploitation of adults. I doubt that I could find anyone in a western country who remembers the names or the stories of trafficking victims from the news. With Serial Storytelling you can build a social media connection to those victims.
Torture This is another one of those evils we all seem to be against. Yet, it continues. You can not depend upon news cycles to highlight this issue when necessary. Use Serial Storytelling to build a social network awareness.
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