Making a New Reality Toolkit Provides Resources for More Inclusive Emerging Media

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Based on research by Kamal Sinclair, The Making a New Reality Toolkit provides a host of carefully curated resources for making emerging media (such as VR, AR, social media) more diverse, equitable, and inclusive (DEI).

The toolkit breaks the work down into 3 categories — personal change, institutional change, and system change — all of which complement each other, all of which are needed for countering historic injustices when it comes to race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability status.

With so many changes in the media ecosystem happening so quickly, now is the moment to seize on this work and wholly re-imagine how media needs to counter deeply entrenched historic inequities.

For the original version of this research project, published here and on Immerse, Kamal Sinclair conducted more than 100 interviews for Making a New Reality in 2017–2018. With this toolkit, Jessica Clark and Carrie McLaren have updated and supplemented Sinclair’s original work with recommendations and resources to help readers develop initiatives that further equity in emerging media.

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This publication was produced with support from Ford Foundation JustFilms and supplemental support from Sundance Institute. It would not have been possible without the foundational work of Shari Frilot, the visionary behind the New Frontier Program at Sundance Institute. Since 2007, she curated thousands of innovative artists and storytellers and provided transformational support as they forged new pathways to making meaning through the arts.