#projectsocial

Project: The Selfie Disaster Project

The Selfie Disaster Project is about trying to share a real story. What happens when you take something from the first world - a social evolution that’s woven into our sociocultural fabric - and re-contextualize it in the third world?

How do you explain something that was deemed “word of the year”, a concept riddled in vanity, ego, and a lack of modesty and explain it to people where everyday priorities revolve around subsistence and survival?

Why not use it to tell a story. 

A social experiment to tell a story. Multiple stories. The real stories on the ground of natural disasters around the world. 

When I started using social media, I fell into the trap that everyone else does. I followed the suggested users, regurgitated how they thought everyone else should use various platforms and found myself wondering exactly what I was doing after having done "it" for a year. 

People talk about the unique potential in platforms like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc. to create a unique voice and do something unparalleled. 

They call it social media, and yet with every passing day the medium in itself becomes less "social". So why don't we change that? I love being creative. I love doing things people don't feel comfortable trying. I love pushing the limits and capacities that people define for us. We each have the ability to define our own capacities and reshape the capacities of the platforms we use - so lets do it! Join me as I have fun putting the "social" back in social media. 

It's going to be different.

It's going to be guerilla.