media literacy
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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: 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: 10 Terms. 3 calls.Here are the central terms of Media Praxis and 3 related calls to action.
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Read More: The Resolution of MP:me
(After “The Resolution of Three,” by Dziga Vertov with Mikhail Kaufman and Elizaveta Svilova, April 10, 1923) The situation on the digital front, namely YouTube, must be considered inauspicious. As…