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Category Archives: Media Theory
The Lecture as a Trans-Medial Pedagogical Form: The Future of an Illusion
The lecture as a trans medial pedagogical form [slideshare id=6827539&doc=thelectureasatrans-medialpedagogicalform-110205234907-phpapp02] View more webinars from Norm Friesen. Just presented a paper on the Lecture as a Transmedial Pedagogical Form at the virtual Connected Online 2011. conference. Here’s the abstract: The lecture … Continue reading
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Marshalling McLuhan for Media Theory
A short op-ed-style piece for English Studies in Canada. Watch the referenced “Marshall McLuhan: Part of Our Heritage” video on YouTube. “Thirty years after his death, and a century after his birth, the cultural and theoretical contributions of Marshall McLuhan … Continue reading
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"Ontologizing" Media Studies
Reading WJT Mitchell and Mark Hansen’s introduction to their Critical Terms for Media Studies: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/532554.html They describe media as an ontological condition that is always-already part of our situation –it is something in which “‘we live and move and have … Continue reading
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Media Theory, Education and the University
A paper I’ve been working on with Darryl Cressman that focuses on Kittler’s media theory and education. One element that this paper traces over a number of mediatic developments (revolutions?) is the role of pictorial elements (above) in conceptualizing and … Continue reading
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CFP – Media: Digital, Ecological and Epistemological
Special issue of E-Learning and Digital Media, Editor Dr. Norm Friesen / Please Forward as appropriate! Media today are everywhere. From educational gaming through portable e-texts to cell phones ringing in class, it seems we can’t escape. Nor can we … Continue reading
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Data of the World, Unite!
Reading Winthrop-Young’s “Drill and Distraction in the Yellow Submarine: On the Dominance of War in Friedrich Kittler’s Media Theory” in Critical Inquiry. I came across this provocative passage: “With the decline of large-scale political activism in Western Europe and North America … Continue reading
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Marshall McLuhan's Education of the Senses: Slideshare & Paper
[slideshare id=2193935&doc=mcluhan-senses-091011185905-phpapp01] McLuhan & the Education of the Senses View more presentations from Norm Friesen. Check out this slideshare for a presentation I recently gave at the annual conference of the German Society for Media Studies. You can also download … Continue reading
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Instruction, Didaktik and Lesson Planning
Two days ago, I participated in a really interesting panel session that compared something as “simple” and “basic” as lesson planning in different national contexts. This occurred in the context of the European Conference on Educational Research in Vienna. Here’s … Continue reading
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On the Mediatization of Education
Theo Hug and I just gave the presentation described below at the Euro. Conference forEducational Research in Vienna. The conference SIG or network on media has been great:http://tinyurl.com/yc28e5m The powerpoint for the presentation is available as a .pdf: http://learningspaces.org/ECER09.pdf A … Continue reading
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Re-Thinking Competency through Media
Here’s the PowerPoint file for a presentation I just gave in Umea, Sweden. As new mediatic forms –from Blogs through mashups to YouTube– penetrate everyday life and reshape youth culture, it is imperative to re-think the status and significance of … Continue reading
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