We Are Water Protectors

My blog was incredibly fun to make. I remember having this idea on Easter Sunday...I couldn’t articulate it yet, but I had the vision in my brain.

 The multimodal product itself didn’t change how I viewed the topic. However, this one required me to dig through my camera roll, searching for the most beautiful photos of water that I have. I look back now at how many photos of lakes, seas, and oceans that I took, and I think it’s fair to say that I love water. Whether or not I recognize that, I clearly cherish the aesthetic of nature and derive some sort of awe from it. After all, my favorite place in the world is by Lake Winnebago, which washes up so much sentimentality that I ignore its brown-green, unappetizing appearance.

The visuals of water also remind us of how present water is...who can say they don’t value what makes up 70% of the planet’s surface? Not only the quantity, but the form. Water is rain, rivers, plumbing, and vacations. It’s everywhere when we don’t expect it to be.

This multimodal presentation would be ideal for contemporary civic engagement. People love videos, especially reels, and especially ones under fifteen seconds. When participating in activism, virality is a sought-after gemstone. The Gamestop stock takeover was a trend. Asian hate was identified and fought against because it took over social media. Content delivered on the most used platforms is now essential for eective, persuasive civic engagement.