critical pedagogy
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Read More: On YouTubeWe held our first class on-line, off-classroom, on YouTube, on Tuesday. What a failure! And it’s YouTube’s fault… The comments function on the site is neither real-time or synchronous (like…
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Read More: Slogan Ten
“The boundaries between the subject, if not the body, and the ‘rest of the world’ are undergoing a radical refiguration, brought about in part through the mediation of technology. ”…
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Read More: Slogan Nine
“The more we assert our own identities as historically marginalized groups, the more we expose the tyranny of a so-called center.” Pratibha Parmar [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNh4kdSsBoY&rel=1] YouTube serves the de-centering mandate of…
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Read More: Slogan Eight
“What is in question is not the expression of some lost origin or some uncontaminated essence in black film-language but the adoption of a critical voice that promotes consciousness of…
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Read More: FOX it is and FOX is itI went to bed last night exhausted, relieved and resolute. I had survived one week in the media limelight and it was over, ending on a mid-note with my mediocre…
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Read More: Slogan Six“The real crime of representation is representation itself.” David MacDougall, ethnographic filmmaker [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1SPB3eYLdg&rel=1] Media presentation on YouTube must be attentive to the ethics and power inherent in all acts of…
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Read More: On YouTube Celebrity and SCALEAn article about my class ended up on the AP wire and less then 24 hours later, I’ve done or scheduled 10 print and radio interviews, including a visit from…
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Read More: Learning from YouTube
I am teaching an experimental class on/about YouTube this semester. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CDrYwXVOn4&rel=1] After two class sessions I realize this course is going to be really fun and super hard, challenging me…
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Read More: MPme: Variant of a Manifesta
(After “WE: Variant of a Manifesto,” Dziga Vertov, 1922) I call myself MP:me (Media Praxis : Alexandra Juhasz)—as opposed to “cinematographer,” one of a herd of machomen doing rather well…
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Read More: 10 Terms. 3 calls.Here are the central terms of Media Praxis and 3 related calls to action.