Soraya Giaccardi
@sorayagiaccardi
Media Impact + DEIA + Feminism. 🤘🏽 〽️ ✌🏽 🇲🇽 Senior Researcher @LearCenter @USCAnnenberg. Formerly Associate Director of Research @GeenaDavisOrg she/her
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What UM’s response to Grad Employees' Org UMich #OnStrike proves is that this strike isn’t merely about labor, but about the fervent desire to live with dignity; the strike is a strike against the the exploitation and violence that makes the contemporary neoliberal university function.
Utterly shameful behavior from University of Michigan. Support Grad Employees' Org UMich #OnStrike below 👇🏽
Representation matters. That's why we are excited to support this research on representations of fatness and anti-fat bias in medical dramas with Norman Lear Center Pitt Public Health and Beth Hoffman, PhD, MPH!
#ICYMI : our Media Impact Project team at the @learcenter is partnering with the University of Pittsburgh to examine how portrayals of fat people, particularly in medical dramas, have impacted society’s perspectives and discussion of fat people. (1/2)
Always thrilled to partner with Media Impact Project and Hollywood, Health & Society, but am particularly excited for this #partnership where we will characterize representations of fatness and anti-fat bias on medical dramas. post-gazette.com/news/health/20…
Will you watch today's premier of #Extrapolations - the new climate-themed anthology series on Apple TV?
We will and we’re partnering with Rare and Good Energy to measure its impact on audiences. Stay tuned!
After decades of erasure, films & shows like Reservation Dogs, #Prey , and Murder in Big Horn are focusing on the issues our communities wrestle with on a daily basis, writes @ruth_hhopkins (Dakota/Lakota Sioux). Atmos #MMIW #NativeRepresentation
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Raise your hand if you ran home to do a self exam after today’s Hollywood, Health & Society + Television Academy conversation on #BreastCancer & #BreastCancer Narratives 😬🙋🏽♀️
Missed the conversation? Watch the recording below 👇🏽 #ThePowerOfTV
Packed house for our Reshaping Breast Cancer Narratives panel with Krista Vernoff Carri Twigg Kristi Korzec and other amazing people! Hollywood, Health & Society Television Academy
'I think there is a very old, entrenched patriarchal notion that if you ask the question about health, you're somehow not telling the 'most entertaining story'... we need to let that notion go.' Krista Vernoff
#BreastCancerNarratives #ThePowerOfTV
'TV is going to educate people no matter what, so let's make sure the health and accuracy of facts are on point. These facts matter.' Krista Vernoff
#BreastCancerNarratives #ThePowerOfTV
“How do we tell the stories we want to tell about climate change without it feeling like a lecture or sermon? There is a way to do it - it's called art.”
- Roxane Gay roxane gay at NRDC 🌎🏡 ‘s #sundancefilmfestival panel
New study out of @learcenter @mediametrics focuses on best practices for achieving impact through #sciencejournalism .
We examined local #climatechange coverage from the Pulitzer Center. Thank you to HHMI NEWS for funding this important research!
mediaimpactproject.org/sciencejournal…