Chipley, Laura, Smith, Samara and Stevens, Rachel. “Engaging Community and Audience in Public Through Documentary Practice,” Pluralities, Volume 2: Spaces, Places, Belonging. https://www.pluralities.org/ 2019.
As non-fiction media makers continue to depart from traditional modes of documentary storytelling, a shift toward experimental practices, emerging technologies and the recasting of the roles of maker and audience raises both new possibilities and questions. In this text, documentary artists Laura Chipley, Samara Smith and Rachel Stevens discuss their recent site-specific multimedia projects and the processes by which their respective works incorporate collaboration and leverage technology as a means to interrogate hierarchical production models, issues of representation and modes of interaction.
Demirjian, Andrew, Samara Smith and Ariana Souzis, “A Year of Collectives,” Open Source 2007-2017 by Open Source Gallery. (2017): 70-77.
The chapter explores the themes that emerged from interviews with artist collectives that exhibited work in the 2016 Year of Collectives series at the Open Source Gallery in Brooklyn, New York.
Smith, Samara and Laura Chipley. “Building Confidence as Digital Learners With Digital Support Across the Curriculum,” Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 44 (2015): 230-239.
This article describes the implementation and outcomes of incorporating creative digital assignments that utilize emergent social technologies in college courses across the curriculum.
Smith, Samara. “Supporting Digital Literacy Across the Curriculum Through Blended Support,” Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 43.2 (2014): 189-198.
Conclusions indicate that offering blended (online and face-to-face) support for digital projects across the curriculum is effective for improving digital literacy. Additionally, students reported an increased engagement with, and better retention of, course material when creating disciplinary digital projects.
Bachhuber, Jay and Samara Smith. “New York City’s Ten Worst Landlords: The Number One Worst in The United States,” The Village Voice, July 5, 2006.
Identifying the worst landlord in NYC though months of investigative journalism utilizing violation records, court documents and interviews with tenants, advocates and landlords.