» Uncategorised https://maxmollon.com/explorations Max Mollon's thoughts & explorations Wed, 16 Jun 2021 17:33:59 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 Viral videos about war in Syria https://maxmollon.com/explorations/?p=1408 https://maxmollon.com/explorations/?p=1408#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2015 19:35:39 +0000 http://maxmollon.com/explorations/?p=1408 Same subject, same medium (video), but two different media strategies (& different aims): getting people interested VS learning something & engaging reflection regarding what we hear in the press.

It feels like emotion and knowledge do not go together. Playing with emotions would ruin the scientific credit of a serious video. Nevertheless, should (the great people of) gap-minder team try unsettling our emotions to also go viral? To be noticed, the medium are diferent in the video (fiction VS interview + data-visualisation), but this difference is minor, as making something emotional is also doable with interviews and dataviz.


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