Two weeks ago I did a presentation at the Digital Media and Learning Conference (DML 2013 : Democratic Futures) in the format of an Ignite Talk. This format is challenging. You have 5 minutes to tell your story, explain you idea, and ignite the audience. You have also 20 slides that change every 15 [...]
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Yesterday, as part of the UT-Explore open house, we run two 4o minute workshops for children and teens at the Belo Center for New Media. It was a very fast video game prototyping exercise that kids enjoyed a lot. This activity was a mini-version of some of the activities we designed and implemented last [...]
various fanzines The creation of fanzines has been a prolific youth-made media activity among female and male youth members of, punk, post punk, and club cultures. Fanzines have been very important for the development of youth media entrepreneurial practices, and for the sustainability of youth cultures as well, because they are relatively easy to [...] The development of late capitalism, the advance of consumer culture, and the increasing proliferation of media technologies in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, created the contexts for a different understanding of youth cultures. During this period of time, female and male youth engaged in productive cultural practices that could be analyzed beyond the narrow [...] Following the traces of the youth grassroots media production in Austin has been exciting. It is nice and intellectually challenging to discover new worlds. As I decided to pursue the project of documenting some of the practices of the local youth (sub) cultural scene, I have been talking to some of the baristas in [...] |
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