Stories from Cumberland
Stories from Cumberland is a six-part documentary series about the 2019 Youth Media Lab hosted by the University of North Texas Department of Media Arts. Join teaching fellow Rob Upchurch as he highlights the impact this media literacy and production workshop had on a group of young people in foster care.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 16 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2021
Special Features
The summer 2019 Youth Media Lab allowed Cumberland residents to develop life skills and the ability to more effectively communicate with other people, and the teaching fellows were given valuable tea…
Showtime!
After learning about media literacy and production for two whole weeks (during their summer vacation, no less!) the residents of Cumberland got to show off their hard work at a special screening held…
Storytelling and Self-Advocacy
One of the major outcomes the Youth Media Lab seeks is to enable young people from marginalized populations to advocate for themselves through media production.
Using the skills they were taught the …
Lights, Camera, Action!
One of the goals of the Youth Media Lab is to teach media production skills to young people in the North Texas community. After all, if we are teaching kids that media around them are constructed for…
Media Literacy
Media can be more complex than you think. There’s a reason they’re made, techniques are used to hold your attention, and certain perspectives are included while others are omitted.
Media literacy is t…
The Pitch
Expressing yourself can be hard, especially if it seems like other people are always deciding what is best for you and telling you who you are. As a research and social outreach initiative of the dep…