Jessica Clark

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Media futurist, strategic advisor, author, connector of dots across disciplines and platforms @ Dot Connector Studio
philadelphia, pennsylvania, united states
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, United States
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About Jessica Clark

I'm the founder and director of Philadelphia-based strategy and foresight firm Dot Connector Studio. I partner with makers, artists, funders, and researchers who seek to build a more just society. Together, we grapple with the ever-shifting terrain of democracy and technology to invent new forms of nonfiction media and make sense of how our society is changing.

Jessica Clark's Current Company Details
Dot Connector Studio

Dot Connector Studio

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Media futurist, strategic advisor, author, connector of dots across disciplines and platforms
philadelphia, pennsylvania, united states
Website:
dotconnectorstudio.com
Employees:
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Jessica Clark Work Experience Details
  • Dot Connector Studio
    Founder And Director
    Dot Connector Studio Nov 2013 - Present
    Greater Philadelphia Area
    Dot Connector Studio works hand-in-hand with media and arts producers, researchers, and funders to suss out emerging social and tech trends and create related publications and tools. In 2020, we expanded our focus to futurism to help ourselves and and our clients imagine a more just, healthy, and creative society. In partnership with some of the country's largest foundations — including Knight, Ford, Democracy Fund, Wikimedia Foundation and others — we've explored new business models for local news, methods for supporting diverse media innovators, and the evolution of fields such as podcasting, virtual reality, and mobile media.Learn more: https://dotconnectorstudio.com/pfolio/
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  • Dot Connector Studio
    Creator, The Impact Pack
    Dot Connector Studio Feb 2016 - Present
    Dot Connector Studio's Impact Pack helps media makers, investors, and nonprofits playfully prototype new products or campaigns, and think through the ways they will move audiences to action. We've used the cards to help clients think through their projects and invent new ones, to run workshops and classes around the world, and to support journalism and documentary labs. In 2020, we released a new suit, "Unintended Consequences," to help users troubleshoot the ways their projects might be harmful rather than helpful.Learn more and get your own deck: http://dotconnectorstudio.com/cards/
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  • Dot Connector Studio
    Co-Author And Speaker, Making A New Reality Toolkit
    Dot Connector Studio Sep 2020 - Present
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
    In September 2020, working with co-author Kamal Sinclair and editor Carrie McLaren, we released this free, downloadable PDF, which provides a host of carefully curated resources for making emerging media (such as VR, AR, social media) more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Since then we have been speaking in classes, on podcasts, and to makers and funders about how this can change their work. Contact me if you'd like to learn more!
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  • Dot Connector Studio
    Publisher And Co-Founder, Immerse.News
    Dot Connector Studio Oct 2016 - Present
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
    Currently serving as the publisher for this online magazine about emerging forms of nonfiction media, which Dot Connector Studio co-produces with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. I helped to launch the publication in 2016, and served as its editor from inception through late-2020.
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  • Media Impact Funders
    Research Director,
    Media Impact Funders Aug 2014 - Jun 2019
    Philadelphia
    Working with this national network of foundations that support public interest media over five years, I helped the organization to rebrand, led the Assessing Impact of Media initiative, collaborated with the team to plan funder gatherings, and conducted/commissioned research related to the field. Over time, I handed off this work to my Dot Connector Studio co-founder Katie Donnelly, who continued it through 2020. Below is a report she authored that sums up the work we did over several years with MIF to define and clarify methods for evaluating high-impact media.
  • Association Of Independents In Radio
    Media Strategist
    Association Of Independents In Radio Aug 2011 - May 2014
    Boston
    Served as a member of the core team for Localore (www.localore.net), a national public media transformation project that placed independent producers at public stations to lead multiplatform storytelling teams. Responsibilities included strategic development, project evaluation, blog and social media content production, curating the weekly Public Media Scan, event planning and more. See the report below, which I co-authored, and sums up insights from the project.
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  • New America Foundation
    Media Policy Fellow
    New America Foundation Feb 2010 - Jan 2013
    Produced research and events related to policy about the information needs of communities, and the transformation of journalism.
  • Designing For Impact; Beyond The Echo Chamber; Public Media 2.0
    Co-Author
    Designing For Impact; Beyond The Echo Chamber; Public Media 2.0 Feb 2009 - Dec 2011
    Before I started Dot Connector Studio, my influential publications helped to define the field of online media strategy for journalism, documentary, and digital public media. They included:- Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media" (New Press, 2010) - Designing for Impact (Center for Social Media, 2011) - Public Media 2.0 (Center for Social Media, 2009)'“Beyond The Echo Chamber tells one of the great untold stories of this decade: the evolution of an entirely new (and newly powerful) progressive media… It’s a must-read for media practitioners, consumers, and progressives of all stripes.” — MSNBC Host Christopher Hayes"Jessica Clark and Pat Aufderheide have written the best current analysis of how we can pursue the core values underlying support for public media in the new, networked environment. Critical to their insight is the understanding that those values are best pursued through platforms that allow the individuals and groups who make up "the public" to engage in constructing their own political and cultural sphere."—Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society."[Beyond the Echo Chamber] takes us beyond the usual ideas about political media, message, and movement building . . . empowering people to break out of conventional wisdom about politics and media and really start making their own change."— Mike Lux, co-founder and CEO, Progressive Strategies
  • Center For Social Media
    Director, Future Of Public Media Project
    Center For Social Media Jul 2006 - May 2011
    Headed up a research project for the Center for Social Media at American University to reimagine public media as participatory, diverse and impactful.
  • In These Times
    Various: Executive Editor, Editor-At-Large, Associate Publisher, Etc.
    In These Times Jun 2002 - Mar 2009
    Over the course of several years, I held multiple leadership positions for this national progressive monthly magazine and its companion Web site, www.inthesetimes.com.As executive editor from 2006-2007, I oversaw editorial planning and production. Duties include managing editorial staff; writing, editing and assigning stories; strategic planning; and media appearances. That year, the magazine won the Utne Reader Independent Press Award for Best Political Reporting.As managing editor from mid 2003-early 2006, oversaw the transition of the magazine to its current monthly format and spearheaded a number of special issues, as well as managing production and editorial functions. In previous positions as assistant and associate publisher, worked with the magazine's staff to streamline business processes, manage the office, and develop special events and promotional strategies for expanding the magazine's impact and subscriber base.
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  • Lip Magazine
    Co-Editor
    Lip Magazine Oct 2000 - Feb 2002
    Worked with LiP's founder to re-launch this quarterly newsstand magazine as a political and cultural Web publication. Collaborated on all aspects of the site: editing, writing, design, programming, promotion and staff development, and served in an advisory capacity as Editor-at-Large.
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  • Britannica.Com
    Assistant Editor
    Britannica.Com 1999 - 2000
    Participated in the launch of Encyclopaedia Britannica's public site in October 1999, developing feature and reference content related to social science, contemporary U.S. issues, and world news. Also wrote short, daily pieces for the BritannicaWire team on topics related to current headlines.
  • University Of Illinois
    Web Developer
    University Of Illinois Sep 1998 - Sep 1999
    Designed and managed educational Web projects for Illinois farmers, rural communities, environmental groups, and consumers.
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  • Library Of Congress
    Writer/Editor
    Library Of Congress Dec 1996 - Jun 1998
    Wrote and edited newsletters and reports on federal information technology and policy, including the Telecommunications Act of 1996, copyright law, and online privacy. Helped to coordinate FLICC's annual forum and regular meetings for federal information professionals.
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  • American Association For The Advancement Of Science
    Webmaster
    American Association For The Advancement Of Science Jan 1997 - Jul 1997
    Helped to manage daily operations and promotion of EurekAlert!, an international science news service for journalists.
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  • Smart Museum Of Art, Field Museum, University Of Chicago Press
    Various: Promotions And Outreach Positions
    Smart Museum Of Art, Field Museum, University Of Chicago Press Jan 1990 - Aug 1996
    Chicago
    Throughout college and grad school, and just after, I worked in a series of museums and cultural institutions—writing, editing and producing promotional materials that included newsletters, catalogs, ads and brochures, helping to organize outreach events, and collaborating with editors and curators to develop related installations.

Jessica Clark Skills

Journalism Blogging Social Media Editing Storytelling New Media Editorial Digital Media Policy Copy Editing Nonprofits Publishing Media Relations Books Magazines Publications Media Evaluation Politics Photography Newspapers Ap Style Content Strategy Social Networking Independent Projects Non Profits Copywriting Impact Studies Activism

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