proposal of a digital media artifact

Purpose:

During the short time I’ve lived in Houghton, there are only a few things that upset about being here, one is that sometimes I feel homesick and miss my family and everything related to my hometown, and the other thing that upset me, almost every day, is eating in the dining halls and see how much food is wasted by the people eating in there. Through a digital media artifice I’ll be developing, I want to aware people about this huge waste of food in order to reduce in the minimum, because it is not fare that here that much food is wasted, when other places in this country people are starving (not going too far in the poorest countries in the continent or in others)

 Audience:

My audience will be students who eat in the dining halls in MTU constantly, because they are the ones who are familiar with the environment of the cafeterias in campus. They can provide different perspectives than the one I already have about the food.

Context:

When I start to gather information and data for this artifact, it is going to be early November, this means we’ll be in the second half of the semester. By this point many students are tired of eating constantly in the different halls and we’ll be missing home food, so this may increase the food waste

Statement of purpose:

·         Reduce as much as possible the food waste in dining halls.

·         Strategies:

·         I want to take pictures of the food that is thrown away, to have visual proofs of this issue.

·         Interviews with students to listen to their perspectives

·         Interview the dining halls to provide a new opinion in this matter.  

Medium:

I still don’t have a clear idea of what medium to use, a colleague suggested a Facebook page so it is easier to share and won’t require that much background in web design, nor copyright problems as a video would have (due to a possible soundtrack). I really liked the idea of the Facebook page, because can combine videos from the internet, pictures uploaded by different users, and it can go beyond MTU with friends or relatives in other universities living similar experiences.