About Scott Macklin
Scott Macklin serves as the Associate Director of the Masters of Communication in Digital Media program at the University of Washington. Scott seeks to create a rich infrastructure that supports innovation and collaboration through the exploration, development, assessment, and dissemination of next-generation technologies and strategies. In 2000, his co-authored article, The Catalyst Project: Supporting Faculty Uses of the Web...with the Web, won the EDUCAUSE contribution of the year award. Scott serves on the advisory board of the Head Start Center for Inclusion and on board of the South African NGO Saving our Schools and Community (SOSAC). In his copious amounts of spare time, Scott – along with his wife, Angelica and two children, Case (11) and Nikko (6) – makes award-winning documentary films, raises chickens and brews up bio-fuel. Scott uses social media as a powerful tool for learning and building meaningful relationships that create opportunities to engage in acts of social justice.
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 at 9:18 am
Ivan Pankararú and Leandro Pataxó representing the Pankararú and Pataxó indigenous peoples of Brazil traveled to the Pacific Northwest to join with the Puyallup on this year’s annual Tribal Canoe Journey. The two traveled to this corner of the globe … Continue reading
Last year, in an effort to suss out how to evolve and sustain the good work heretofore put into the Flip the Media blog, we initiated an Independent Study: Flip the Media: Building an Outlet. The call was to be … Continue reading
“Let’s Do the Numbers’: Metrics and Maturation of Digital Media in Emerging Markets. One of the central storylines of Anita Verna Crofts’ culminating Seattle Arts and Lecture talk addresses the “demographic dividend” that many emerging market countries possess: namely, the … Continue reading
Scott Macklin and Anita Verna Crofts spoke at the 17th Annual Washington State Nonprofit Conference last Friday. (view presentation)
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 at 11:40 am
Unlike the namesake film – “My Dinner with Andre” – where the existential discourse found its place in the conversation at the table – the philosophy and science of this dinner was placed in the story of the food itself. … Continue reading
This past Fall, three Communication undergraduates (Lucas Anderson, Nicolette Lock, and Ryan McNamme) and a Master of Communication in Digital Media student (Matthew Franco) participated in the FLIP Brazil study abroad program. Sponsored by the Comparative History of Ideas Program, … Continue reading
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
“It’s not about what you got…it is how you freak it.” Our walks be-get our thoughts – which then can be-come steps of action. In my B-Side Docs about Seattle vignette produced as part of MTV’s $5 Dollar Cover Seattle, … Continue reading