I recently came across this article by Gianfranco Polizzi and Marina Cino Pagliarello which beings by describing the current state of media literacy and citizenship education in the United Kingdom, before calling for the inclusion of more media literacy content and material within the compulsory citizenship syllabus. It’s a good article, and, while the UK…
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Educ8 and Clubhouse
Recently, I had the chance to take part in the Educ8 conference, which was a 24 hour (or longer!) event across multiple time zones, hosted entirely on Clubhouse, the new audio only social media app. I was invited by Mark Parry, a fellow Learning Designer, to work with him to contribute to a session all…
Research Agenda for 2021: Part One (Civics and Citizenship)
So for 2021, now that I am starting to find myself more comfortable at UTS, I think that it’s time to really start applying myself with some dedication to my research agenda. This is going to be complicated by the increased amount of teaching that I am required to do, but I think that I…
Some thoughts about anonymity, confidentiality and social media.
One of the great challenges of undertaking any kind fo research or fieldwork in social media spaces is ensuring that people’s data is protected as appropriate. There is some discussion about how this should be done – and, indeed, whether it should be done at all. After all, the argument goes, if you’re only using…
The life cycle of social movements (part 3)
I think there are three major differences between ‘old’ and ‘new’ social movements. The mix of the physical real and the virtual real, and the ability to make use of affordances in different spaces. Early studies of the internet (in the first instance) and social media (in the decades following) often focused on who was…