Historically, engineers learned by taking machines apart and puttingthem back together again. Can young people learn how culture works bysampling and remixing the materials of their culture?
Might thisability to appropriate and transform valued cultural materials berecognized as an important new kind of cultural competency, what somepeople are calling new media literacies? How might we meaningfullyincorporate this fascination with mash-ups into our pedagogicalpractices and what values should we place on the kinds of new contentwhich young people produce by working on and working over culturalmaterials?
In this program, we will showcase a range ofcontemporary projects that embrace a hands-on approach to contemporaryand classical media materials as a means of getting young people tothink critically about their own roles as future media producers andconsumers.
Erik Blankinship, Media Modifications |Juan Devis, KCET | Renee Hobbs, Temple | Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, MixedMagic Theater |
Alice Robison, MIT | Henry Jenkins, MIT
Might thisability to appropriate and transform valued cultural materials berecognized as an important new kind of cultural competency, what somepeople are calling new media literacies? How might we meaningfullyincorporate this fascination with mash-ups into our pedagogicalpractices and what values should we place on the kinds of new contentwhich young people produce by working on and working over culturalmaterials?
In this program, we will showcase a range ofcontemporary projects that embrace a hands-on approach to contemporaryand classical media materials as a means of getting young people tothink critically about their own roles as future media producers andconsumers.
Erik Blankinship, Media Modifications |Juan Devis, KCET | Renee Hobbs, Temple | Ricardo Pitts-Wiley, MixedMagic Theater |
Alice Robison, MIT | Henry Jenkins, MIT
Renee Hobbs at MIT Conference
Name of Conference
Media in Transition Conference
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