Angela McRobbie – Be Creative: Making a Living in the Urban Culture Industries
Month: May 2012
Educational Technology Is Key to Job Training, Panelists Say
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies – Special Issue on Mediated Youth Cultures
Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies – Volume 26, Issue 3: ” Special Issue on Mediated Youth Cultures “
In Media Res | World Wide Web In Your Pocket
In Media Res | a mediaCommons project: “World Wide Web In Your Pocket [May 21-25, 2012]”
“In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship. Our goal is to promote an online dialogue amongst scholars and the public about contemporary approaches to studying media. In Media Res provides a forum for more immediate critical engagement with media at a pace closer to how we experience mediated texts.
Each weekday, a different scholar curates a 30-second to 3-minute video clip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response. We use the title “curator” because, like a curator in a museum, you are repurposing a media object that already exists and providing context through your commentary, which frames the object in a particular way. The clip/comment combination are intended both to introduce the curator’s work to the larger community of scholars (as well as non-academics who frequent the site) and, hopefully, encourage feedback/discussion from that community.”
Cultural-Studies Journal Gets Revamped for a ‘Different Intellectual Moment’ – Publishing – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Gangadharan
Digital inclusion and data profiling
First Monday, Volume 17, Number 5 – 7 May 2
“In the United States, digital inclusion policies designed to introduce poor people, communities of color, indigenous, and migrants (collectively, “chronically underserved communities” or “the underserved”) to the economic, social, and political benefits of broadband lie in tension with new practices and techniques of online surveillance. While online surveillance activity affects all broadband users, members of chronically underserved communities are potentially more vulnerable to the harmful effects of surveillant technologies. This paper examines specific examples of commercial data profiling against a longer history of low–tech data profiling of chronically underserved communities. It concludes by calling for issues of online privacy and surveillance to punctuate digital inclusion discourse. Until this happens, digital inclusion policies threaten to bring chronically underserved communities into online worlds that, as Gandy (2009) argued, reinforce and exacerbate social exclusion and inequalities.”
MOOCs, Large Courses Open to All, Topple Campus Walls – NYTimes.com
MOOCs, Large Courses Open to All, Topple Campus Walls – NYTimes.com: “Welcome to the brave new world of Massive Open Online Courses — known as MOOCs — a tool for democratizing higher education. While the vast potential of free online courses has excited theoretical interest for decades, in the past few months hundreds of thousands of motivated students around the world who lack access to elite universities have been embracing them as a path toward sophisticated skills and high-paying jobs, without paying tuition or collecting a college degree. And in what some see as a threat to traditional institutions, several of these courses now come with an informal credential (though that, in most cases, will not be free).
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2012 Recordings – Classroom 2.0
2012 Recordings – Classroom 2.0: ” Lots of great webinars”