Lauren Feldman is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information. Her research delves into the societal impacts of media and technology. She investigates how the digital environment shapes individual behaviors and social interactions. Her work contributes to understanding the evolving influence of digital media.
"The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power reveals how and why comedy fuels contemporary social change, how post-millennial activists collaborate with comedians and the evolving entertainment industry, and why creativity and cultural power matter for social justice. Through research and an insider journey into transforming entertainment industry and activism practices, the book explains why deviant creativity expressed through comedy builds civic power-and can help change the world"--
Story Movements: How Documentaries Empower People and Inspire Social Change
explores the rise of social-issue documentaries, focusing on the behind-the-
scenes grassroots tactics and real-world social impact of such influential
films as Blackfish, The Invisible War, 13th, and Citizenfour.
This collection includes three short WAYS YOU CAN SURVIVE THE WORLD by Jennifer Tuckett, AFTER THE FLOOD by Dorothy Fortenberry, and WHEN IT RAINS by Lauren Feldman. WAYS YOU CAN SURVIVE THE What would you do if you woke up one day before school and discovered you just happened to be a superhero? Impress your friends or save the world? Two ordinary schoolgirls, Yasmin and Katie, try to make sense of this crazy and confused world in this honest and powerful play. AFTER THE Voices from early twentieth-century New Orleans speak to the levees and the floods. WHEN IT An estranged mother visits her daughter in college in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.“IN TIMES OF DISASTER introduces three exciting new playwrights, all first-year students in the Playwriting Department of the Yale School of Drama, all born within six months of each other; one from Miami, one from DC, one from England. A deep and clear moral center runs through these plays, all of which ask us to look not only at our lives but at the state of our world. Only twenty-six years old, these three playwrights can still remember what it was like to believe in things and be innocent, so it is even all the more heartbreaking when they show us how far from innocence our world has come.” —Richard Nelson
