Posts Tagged ‘ pedagogy ’

AnTENNA, UnREAL: Romance and Pedagogy

August 19, 2015
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AnTENNA, <i>UnREAL</i>: Romance and Pedagogy

The second part of a week-long forum for media scholars to share their thoughts about Lifetime's UnREAL explores the series in relation to romance and pedagogy.
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Podagogy, a Word I Didn’t Make Up

June 25, 2015
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Podagogy, a Word I Didn’t Make Up

Neil Verma explores the different uses of collective listening in public events and in the classroom, reflecting on a recent experience teaching podcast studies to undergraduates.
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Teaching Radio’s History

Teaching Radio’s History

Bruce Lenthall discusses the challenges and opportunities of teaching radio history to a generation of students for whom even the metaphors we often use to think about radio's early history no longer resonate.
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Bullshit Jobs in the Creative Industries

April 23, 2015
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Bullshit Jobs in the Creative Industries

Jack Newsinger reflects on the idea of bullshit jobs in the creative industries and what this might mean for pedagogy.
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Cultural Studies, TV Studies, & Empathy

December 3, 2012
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Cultural Studies, TV Studies, & Empathy

What could cultural studies work on TV look like if we saw our function as facilitating conversations among our students (and ourselves) about social identity, privilege, and power centered on their and our differing engagements with and feelings about television programming?
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Report From the TV Academy Faculty Seminar (Part 1)

November 21, 2012
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Report From the TV Academy Faculty Seminar (Part 1)

A group of TV Studies faculty share their impressions from a week-long Television Academy seminar.
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The Google+ Assignment—Evaluation

April 7, 2012
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The Google+ Assignment—Evaluation

Using Google+ for student assignments in a TV genre class would, ideally, link learning with social technologies students are already using, and spur students to consume social media more critically. As with all experiments there was some success and some failure.
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The Google+ Assignment

January 26, 2012
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The Google+ Assignment

This piece begins a series reflecting on the trials and tribulations of digital pedagogy.
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Advice on Surviving the Competing Demands of Academia

July 26, 2011
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Advice on Surviving the Competing Demands of Academia

We know there are certain things we must do to achieve tenure and maintain our employment. But we often become so obsessed with this—or the next step up after—that we forget to consider our reasons for going into the field to begin with.
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Computer Games: Heart of the Humanities?

March 31, 2011
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Computer Games: Heart of the Humanities?

In what ways does the medium and its exploration connect with the traditional foci of humanistic study: life, death, friendship, love, work, play, language, learning, history, and so on?
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Report From SCMS: Thursday

March 11, 2011
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Report From SCMS: Thursday

The Antenna editors have asked some writers to contribute daily reports on the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference in New Orleans this week. First up: a Thursday report from Christine Becker, focusing primarily on the SCMS website workshop.
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About the (w)hoopla: A few pedagogical thoughts about the Super Bowl ritual.

February 8, 2010
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About the (w)hoopla: A few pedagogical thoughts about the Super Bowl ritual.

In an era of fragmentation it's the only media program left that has any kind of mass ritual component. Which, of course, is not only why so many debate its contents but why and how we , as scholars, should approach the program.
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