Document Type
Article
Abstract
[First paragraph]
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the preservation of the culture of New Orleans was a foremost topic of discussion. As an institution, Tulane had made the transition to requiring all students to complete public service courses as both upper and lower classmen. It was at the intersection of these pressures that the MediaNOLA project emerged. Our initial goal was to educate students in the local traditions of New Orleans while training them to be producers and custodians of cultural knowledge. What began as an exercise in regional research and presentation has become an archive of human action and process that is just as, or perhaps more valuable than the encyclopedic information it contains.
Repository Citation
Griffith, Mike F., and Vicki A. Mayer. "MediaNOLA on Fire." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 16, no. 1, 2016, pp. 1–18. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol16/iss1/18