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- Offers a media- and community-based pedagogical approach to challenging social issues in the twenty-first century
- Extends critical thinking into critical design through other media using story and image, music and sound in genres that come from communities, popular culture, and the larger world
- Provides a wide range of examples and project ideas using well-known design frames, including UX and design thinking
Part of the book series: Digital Education and Learning (DEAL)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book sets forth a pedagogy for renewing the liberal arts by combining critical thinking, media activism, and design thinking. Using the StudioLab approach, the author seeks to democratize the social and technical practices of digital culture just as nineteenth century education sought to democratize literacy. This production of transmedia knowledge—from texts and videos to comics and installations—moves students between seminar, studio, lab, and field activities. The book also wrestles with the figure of Plato and the very medium of knowledge to re-envision higher education in contemporary societies, issuing a call for community engagement as a form of collective thought-action.
Reviews
“The book is an interesting look at the ideas, thoughts, and practical issues of liberal arts in the context of a modern technology-based society. Every liberal arts library should have a copy as a general guideline for research, and it is a necessary seminal work for college-level digital media programs.” (F. J. Ruzic, Computing Reviews, July 23, 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
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English, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Jon McKenzie
About the author
Jon McKenzie is Dean’s Fellow for Media and Design and Professor of Practice in the Department of English at Cornell University, USA. He is the author of Perform or Else: From Discipline to Performance and co-founder of the performance group McKenzie Stojnić.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transmedia Knowledge for Liberal Arts and Community Engagement
Book Subtitle: A StudioLab Manifesto
Authors: Jon McKenzie
Series Title: Digital Education and Learning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20574-4
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20573-7Published: 09 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20574-4Published: 27 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2753-0744
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0752
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 152
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Technology and Digital Education, Educational Technology, Communication Studies, Media Studies, Media Design, Theatre and Performance Studies