My Name is Andy Minnion, I'm the director of the Rix's centre, here at the University of
East London. Hello my name is Gosia Kwiatkowska I'm the center manager,
I run and develop lots of multimedia
advocacy courses and I teach on
postgraduate and undergraduate. My understanding of
multimedia advocacy is it's the use of
the tools and the processes of
multimedia production as a way in which
to help people to have a voice and to
take control of their lives. Multimedia
advocacy is the conveying of preferences
and viewpoints by using pictures, sound,
video and words. Funnily enough I think
multimedia advocacy is for everybody
most of us carry in our pockets nowadays
a multimedia recording device with our
mobile phones will have a camera there
will have a means of displaying pictures
of showing videos of sending pictures
and videos to each other of storing text
we all use multimedia day-to-day as part
of how we organize our thinking
communicate with each other and
reinforce our memories so really I think
multimedia advocacy is for everyone but
what I would add, is if you have some
challenges because of an intellectual
disability or communication disability
with getting your message across, with taking charge with your day to day life
then multimedia advocacy is particularly for you because for us it's a convenience but I
think for people with an intellectual
disability it can make the difference
between being included and being
excluded.
