Collaborative image making

May 11, 2022 Lab News & Views

Congratulations to graduate student Jen Smith-Mayo, who won the 2022 CMJ Showcase (Graduate Work Category) award in April. The UMaine Department of Communication and Journalism (CMJ) held its inaugural student showcase this spring to recognize the outstanding creative, research, and engagement work of CMJ students.

Click HERE to access Jen Smith-Mayo’s project video and learn about how group selfies can be an essential collaborative and creative part of interdisciplinary environmental science. With this provocation based on her field work, Jen questions issues and practices of authorship in collaborative image making, as well as the connections among human and non-human bodies.

If you have any trouble with the video link above, try this one instead.