A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Trevor Boffone recounts a harrowing experience traveling back from Japan with a cohort of high school students. Dr. Boffone became a viral news story through the storytelling affordances of TikTok. He reflects upon these affordances, positioning the platform as a site of agency and self-determination.
Read moreAfter discussing the dreaded weekly discussion post assignment, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez considers the voice memo as a suitable alternative.
Read moreReflecting upon the trauma of living through the Covid-19 pandemic and reckoning with systemic racism, Scott Tulloch suggests trauma informed approaches to media studies pedagogy.
Read moreLooking closely at virtual classroom experiences, Victoria Grace Walden suggests a ‘meta-media studies’ approach to consider how we teach with and about #edtech.
Read moreMeera Govindasamy and Jonathan Petrychyn explore the extra labor of adapting in-person courses to online through the lens of precarious academic employment and maintaining a commitment to the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL.)
Read moreMatthew Hale’s video essay reflects on remote teaching and provides a walkthrough of his Keynote workflow.
Read moreKit Hughes writes about the necessity of solidarity in academia along with other workplaces in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read moreFan-produced music video, using Grimes’ chromakey footage for her latest single, “You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone.” My current research focuses on spectacular expansion, but with the coronavirus pandemic it seems like everything is constricting. Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry and New Audiovisual Aesthetics, a volume I co-edited with Holly Rogers and Lisa Perrott, has just come out, and my manuscript, […]
Read moreJosh Stenger argues that participatory fandom presents higher education with an opportunity to help undergraduates identify the skills and habits of mind they have already developed as fans, then strengthen and apply these in intentional, edifying ways in more traditional academic settings.
Read moreJosh Stenger considers how fan studies is uniquely positioned to help colleges and universities teach students how to learn.
Read moreNedda Ahmed, College of the Arts Librarian at Georgia State University, offers several research hacks as well as an extensive list of accessible resources for students and scholars unable to travel to media-specific collections.
Read moreBonni Stachowiak, host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, discusses the captivating nature of podcasts, the difference between podcast and AM/FM listenership, and how her podcast has impacted her pedagogy.
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