Newsactivism: Multimedia Final Project

My task for this final post was to raise funds for the Heart and Stroke foundation in order to increase awareness towards physical and mental health. Throughout the whole semester my focus has been on the different aspects of mental health. In order to find new and creative ways to show the truth of mental health issues, I have found 2 sources of current events that have occurred within the last month. The first article that will be discussed will be surrounding the show “13 Reasons Why” and secondly, how society should change their representation of mental illnesses within photographs and mass media. Furthermore, for the multimedia aspect of the project, I created a slideshow/video to illustrate the stigma against mental health problems. Accordingly, the connection between the news articles and the volunteer work conducted was to raise responsiveness towards the serious mental health issues people can have. 

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