critical pedagogy
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Read More: 5 Lessons of YouTube: Published Here and There
My article has been recently published in two places: Cinema Journal, and a new digital publication, The International Journal of Learning and Media. In both cases, I’ve been working with…
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Read More: After E-learn: Small is smallA few thoughts on the first day of the E-learn conference (all I got to attend). Given my short stay in Vegas, I decided to attend the talks of the…
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Read More: Watching the Detectives: The Future of WritingThis blog must be brief, mostly because I’m over-committed to other forms of writing, but I do want to make a few comments about the terrific conference I got to…
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Read More: On Video Writing[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGsi5na0JZI&hl=en&fs=1] This is the transcript (and written form) of a “talk” I will present at the Future of Writing Conference at UC Irvine, on Friday. It begins with the video…
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Read More: Circling Jenkins 2: Boobs and BytesIn the same Learning from YouTube class where two students presented their fake documentary about convergence culture and The Hills (see video, True Life: I’m addicited to ‘The Hills’ on-line…
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Read More: Pushing around Henry Jenkins: YouTube Criticism as Cynical CirclingSo, I’ve been teaching the second Learning from YouTube class this fall. The more normal one. The one with books. And lately, we’ve been reading Henry Jenkins’ Convergence Culture, after…
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Read More: You Say You Want a Revolution?
My course with a digital-presence, Media Praxis—one that focuses upon the historical, ethical and theoretical underpinnings of revolutionary media practices while attempting to find their legacy on-line—has left me feeling…
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Read More: Tweaking EnzenbergerIn his “Constituents of a Theory of the Media,” in The Consciousness Industry (1974), Hans Magnus Enzenberger describes a new media (“satellites, color television, cable relay television, casettes, videotape, videotape…
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Read More: Back to School. 2 new sites!
Sad but true. Hard to muster, yes. But I can’t fairly complain; it’s not really decent. Boo hoo. I must return to work after 8 months on sabbatical. I’ll be…
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Read More: We’re Not in Kansas AnymoreI have been closely following the work of Michael Wesch, at Kansas State University, because he, like me, has been teaching a course about and also within YouTube. An anthropologist,…