NEW YORK (PRWEB) JUNE 18, 2019
1,000 Cut Journey was premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival as a VR project that highlights the social realities of racism. In this VR project, the viewer becomes Michael Sterling, a black man, encountering racism as a young child, adolescent, and young adult. In a new interview with C.M. Rubin, Founder of CMRubinWorld, Jeremy Bailenson, the film’s co-producer, says, “In creating virtual experiences we can increase empathy for others, encourage helping behaviors, improve communication strategies, and enhance education.”
1,000 Cut Journey is a collaboration between the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford University and the Cogburn Research Group at Columbia University, headed by Dr. Courtney Cogburn, who studies racism. Bailenson believes the key to success in changing behavior is ensuring the user gets an immersive virtual experience. “We feel that these types of experiences are important to focus on as VR permeates society. Never before in history could we allow anyone to instantly step into the shoes of someone else.”
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Jeremy Bailenson is the co-producer of the film 1,000 Cut Journey, a professor at Stanford University, and the co-founder of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab at Stanford. He is also the author of Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do.
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DENVER—New reporting by Roll Call, based on thousands of pages of internal documents obtained by Earthjustice, revealed the existence of a previously-undisclosed set of guidelines that let political appointees at the Interior Department intercept and interfere with documents set to be released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). These rules are in addition to the documented “awareness review” process that Interior claims governs FOIA production, according to congressional testimony.
The documents contradict verbal and written testimony from Interior Solicitor nominee and Chief FOIA Officer Daniel Jorjani, who told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that “as a policy matter, I typically did not review records prior to their release.”
The Center for Western Priorities released the following statement from Deputy Director Aaron Weiss:
“These latest documents reveal that Daniel Jorjani misled and may have outright lied to Congress. It’s clear the Interior Department has let political appointees interfere with FOIA in ways that are both unprecedented and illegal. He is ethically unqualified to serve as Interior Solicitor.
“In addition, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt was clearly feigning ignorance when he told Senator Leahy last month that it was ‘troubling to me… that [awareness review] would be slowing the reviews down,’ and that ‘if it’s responsive, it’s going out.’ These documents show that Bernhardt and top Interior officials have known for months that political interference was not just slowing FOIA production, but causing the Interior Department to miss court-mandated deadlines.”
The Freedom of Information Act is America’s bedrock transparency law that ensures reporters and the public have access to information about how the federal government works. Congress last updated FOIA in 2016.
For more information, visit westernpriorities.org. To speak with an expert on public lands, contact Aaron Weiss at 720-279-0019 or aaron@westernpriorities.org. Sign up for Look West to get daily public lands and energy news sent to your inbox.
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The Center for Western Priorities is a conservation policy and advocacy organization focused on land and energy issues across the American West.
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