If we accept physically cutting paper or spinning a volvelle as a readerly and writerly act, then we must also erase the boundaries we have drawn between “the book” as a material form and “the digital” as an epistemology, reconsidering the various literacies each facilitates or forecloses.
Video: Media in Transition 6: “New Media, Civic Media”
As old media die, new forms are emerging, but it’s not clear they will serve such vital civic functions.
Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission
What are the implications of the tension between storage and transmission for education, for individual and national identities, for notions of what is public and what is private?
Podcast: “Global Media”
Wrestling with the indispensability and inadequacy of Anglo-American paradigms in Asian, African, and Latin American contexts.
Henry Jenkins and the Washington Post on Susan Boyle
Henry Jenkins: “‘Viral’ suggests people are unknowingly transmitting it, as if they had no choice. That’s not really what’s going on with Susan Boyle.”
Podcast: Randy Testa, “Telling Stories In Print, Online and Onscreen: Walden Media and Family Audiences”
Randy Testa, VP of Education and Professional Development, Walden Media, discusses creating educational content in tandem with commercial family films.
Podcast and video: “The Campaign and the Media 2”
The Obama campaign’s extensive deployment of digital media, especially its tech-savvy outreach to the young, was widely reported before the election. Some predicted that this digital advantage would make a decisive difference. Did it?
