Digital Pedagogy+ the Rise of the Fifth Estate

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Virginia KuhnAssociate Director, IML vkuhn@usc.edu

 

virginia kuhnvkuhn@usc.edu

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Ways of Composing: Visual Literacy in the Digital Age, 2005

 

virginia kuhnvkuhn@usc.edu

Ways of Composing: Visual Literacy in the Digital Age, 2005

 

virginia kuhnvkuhn@usc.edu

Ways of Composing: Visual Literacy in the Digital Age, 2005

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The dustup obscures a potential revolution in scholarship that may replace the universal format for composition since the Middle Ages – the book, i.e., a linear sequence of pages containing text and graphic elements – with a whole range of formatting options, the book being only one.

- Carl Marziali

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21st century =

|\ mediated culture

|\ surveillance culture

|\ networked culture

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|\ let the pedagogy drive the technology

|\ culture of technology impacts pedagogy

IML approach

BUT

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literacy vs electracy (Ulmer)

|\ competent control of the available semiotic resources

|\ ethical element |\ advocacy element

|\ practice-based research

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|\ Honors in Multimedia Scholarship

|\ Digital Studies Minor |\ Graduate Certificate

- all include hands-on

- all teach tools but only in their cultural, social and historical contexts

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course offering:current:

IML140 Workshop in Multimedia AuthoringIML101 The Languages of New MediaIML340 The Praxis of New MediaIML346 Methods in Multimedia ScholarshipIML420 Digital Media for Social ChangeIML466 Digital Studies SymposiumIML400 Web Based ScholarshipIML501 Digital Media Workshop

adding:IML295 Race, Class and Gender in Digital SpaceIML555 Digital PedagogiesIML500 Digital Topics and TechniquesIML535 Information VisualizationIML522 Tangible Computing

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conceptual core controlling idea, productive alignment with genre

form | content controlled defensible design decisions, form serves content

research component evidence of substantive research

creative realization achieves something that could not be done on paper

Speaking with Students: Profiles in Digital Pedagogy

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http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/14.2/interviews/kuhn/index.html

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Speaking with Students: Profiles in Digital Pedagogy

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Iraqi Doctors Project 2008-09

http://iml.usc.edu/iraqidoctors/

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Film ArtBordwell & Thompson

editing in and out of the camera

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Fahrenheit 911see eric faden’s analysis of critics’ response

mediascape spring 2008 http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/Spring08_DocumentarysNewPolitics.html

critics could not decode the “complex visual syntax” of remixed footage

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people respond only to

individuals in distress

“psychic numbing and

genocide”

http://journal.sjdm.org/7303a/jdm7303a.htm

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“the neuroscientific evidence is becoming increasingly apparent that we understand, evaluate and react to the situation of other people by vicariously imagining them on the substrate of our own self.”

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang + Antonio Damasio

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the youtube gaze: permission to

create?

enculturation journal of rhetoric,

writing, and culture

special issue on video and

participatory culture

http://enculturation.gmu.edu/

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Rethink Afghanistan project 2009-10 - Brave New Films [bravenewfilms.org]

archive.org search “iml340”

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Shoah Foundation Archive 2010-11

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sample student project 2008-09

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|\ research

|\ scholarship

|\ tools

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|\ tools

|\ alliances

|\ production of knowledge

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tools:scalar

vkuhn@cinema.usc.edu

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avenues for further work + research

|\ neuroscience|\ psychology|\ networked semiotics

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thank you!

vkuhn@cinema.usc.edu