This book offers a critical road map for understanding and researching "social innovation media"-initiatives that look for new solutions to seemingly intractable social problems by combining creativity, media technologies, and engaged collectives in their design and implementation. Presenting a number of case studies, including campaigns dealing with young people, Indigenous peoples, human rights, and environmental issues, the book takes a close look at the guiding principles, assumptions, goals, practices, and outcomes of these experiments, revealing the challenges they face, the components of their innovation, and the cultural economy within which they operate.

Aneta Podkalicka is a media researcher and lecturer at the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University.

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Social Innovation Media

Chapter 2: Case Study: Environmental Place-Based Media

Chapter 3: Social Innovation Theory and Policy

Chapter 4: Case Study: WITNESS and Systems Thinking

Chapter 5: The Creative Economy

Chapter 6: Case Study: Youth Media for Development and Innovation

Chapter 7: The Social Innovation Media Workforce

Chapter 8: Case Study: Goolarri's Kimberley Girl

Chapter 9: Measuring Outcomes

Chapter 10: Conclusion

Appendix 1: Considerations for Practitioners

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