Academics having fun…
Today I’m putting the “finishing touches” (i.e. scrambling just to finish) on my presentation for the Missouri Broadcast Educators Association conference. I go to bat at 4:00 p.m. tomorrow. The title is:
Negotiating the Story Online: Social Networks and Critical Pedagogy in Broadcast Journalism
I’ll be writing it up as a formal essay next week. What I’m doing is charting how the process of running an open-source documentary film project created a social network that led producer Kent Bye, of The Echo Chamber Project, to critically examine more than just the immediate needs of his film. He’s actually developing a theory of a (potential) new media ecosystem.
Now wouldn’t it be cool if we could encourage students to think critically and theoretically as a normal part of completing their own collaborative class projects (or participating in the open-source projects of others)?
I’ll post a few excerpts from the formal essay on my blog space at The Echo Chamber Project in about two weeks.
Excerpts from Dr. Cline’s Paper Coming Soon
Dr. Andrew Cline of Rhetorica.net gave a presenation about this project at the Missouri Broadcast Educators Association conference this past weekend.
Cline writes on his blog:
What I’m doing is charting how the process of running an open-source documentar