In its latest issue, Time magazine runs a feature on the impacts of social issue dramas such as Blood Diamond and documentaries such as Inconvenient Truth. It's an area where I am conducting ongoing research evaluating the impacts of such movies across audiences, news coverage, and the policy agenda. I was interviewed for background on the story and I am quoted in the article. For more on this topic, see this report I co-authored last year for the Ford Foundation and Center for Social Media.
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