![]() ![]() May 23, 2018This isn’t the first time Vox (with a four-person engagement team) has sought its audience’s ideas for video for Explained, its weekly Netflix show, producers used follower input for its e-sports and K-pop episodes, Posner said. We’re just as curious as they are,” Posner said. “It’s a delicate mission to help explain the world, but we’re just riding along with our audience. Vox’s video team is only four years old, like the site itself its leader, Joe Posner, pointed out that Harris was the fourth person to join the team. ![]() The third - focusing on the borders of Colombia - is yet to come, as the callout started Thursday with the Harris’s announcement of the new destination. The second, a deep dive into Hong Kong, brought in more engagement reporting - to avoid the white-man-parachuting-into-the-natives’-land trope and more fully telling the stories of Hong Kong’s borders. The first season focused on six different borders from Haiti/Dominican Republic to Nepal/China. Harris, an international-relations aficionado, pitched the idea a few years ago, which has since bubbled into three seasons of five or six episodes. “I wanted to look at a map and zoom into it and look at the people there and the stories surrounding this thing that we usually just look at from 30,000 feet.” ![]() That was the premise of Borders, Vox’s video series by Johnny Harris and producer Christina Thornell.Īfter living near the U.S.–Mexico border in Tijuana, “I wanted to humanize the lines on the map,” Harris said. If you’re going to attempt to humanize the border between two contentious countries, you should probably start by asking the humans living there what they think.Īnd while it’s easy (well, relatively) to go in and ask the first migrants or border guards or vendors that you see - doing your engagement homework beforehand doesn’t hurt either. ![]()
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