Invited Speaker

 

Learning from and Teaching on YouTube

 

 

 

 

Alexandra Juhasz

Media Studies, Pitzer College, USA

 


Abstract:


 In the Fall of 2007, I taught an experimental course, Learning form YouTube, where, among other pedagogic innovations meant to mirror the structures of YouTube, the students were only allowed to do their coursework as videos or comments on the site, and the course was itself videotaped and open to the public on YouTube.
 

In my presentation, I will explain how teaching locked within the limits of this site's architecture created significant shifts in the dynamics of the classroom particularly in relation to traditional structures, uses or styles of discipline, entertainment, popularity, community and chaos.

 

Biographical Information:

 

Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA. Her scholarship is accessible academic work about engaged uses of alternative media: a book on AIDS activist video, AIDS TV (Duke) another on histories of feminist media, Women of Vision (Minnesota), a third (edited with Pitzer professor, Jesse Lerner) on progressive uses of fakery in documentary, F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing (Minnesota) and a forth, an an-line publication creating radical media education, "Media Praxis: A WebSite Integrating Theory Politics and Production" (www.mediapraxis.org). She teaches courses on and writes about women's, feminist, avant-garde, and poltical media, especially documentary. Most recently she has been teaching and writing about the failures of YouTube. See her class at www.youtube.com/mediapraxisme and her blog on YouTube and other sites of committed media at www.aljean.wordpress.com.


 

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