Anna van Someren
Comparative Media Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

applied humanities

applied humanities
a focus on culture instead of technologies

applied humanities
a focus on culture instead of technologies

applied humanities
C4FCM
a focus on culture instead of technologies

www.newmedialiteracies.org

“traditional” media literacy:
• analysis of mass media (consumer perspective)
• critical thinking
• not integrated into the curriculum

“traditional” media literacy:
• analysis of mass media (consumer perspective)
• critical thinking
• not integrated into the curriculum
digital literacy:
• tools and techniques
• computer clubhouse movement

social skills and cultural competencies
play collective intelligence
simulation judgment
performance transmedia navigation
appropriation networking
multitasking negotiation
distributed cognition

social skills and cultural competencies
play collective intelligence
simulation judgment
performance transmedia navigation
appropriation networking
multitasking negotiation
distributed cognition visualization

an integrated approach to media pedagogy
exercises - develop technical skills & cultural competencies
exemplars - critically analyze media texts
expressions - create new media content
ethics - critically reflect on consequences of choices

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
• exemplar collection: media makers

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
• exemplar collection: media makers
• exercises: explore and practice skills

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
• exemplar collection: media makers
• exercises: explore and practice skills
• expressions: create & share

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
• exemplar collection: media makers
• exercises: explore and practice skills
• expressions: create & share
• ethics: integrated throughout

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
• exemplar collection: media makers
• exercises: explore and practice skills
• expressions: create & share
• ethics: integrated throughout
• partnerships will produce local collections

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
NML Simulation activity instructions

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
NML Simulation activity instructions
Soda Constructor www.sodaplay.com

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
cosplayers use collective intelligence
www.projectnml.org/exemplars

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
• innovative multimedia online/offline guide

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
• innovative multimedia online/offline guide
• applies NML skills to classroom subjects

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
• innovative multimedia online/offline guide
• applies NML skills to classroom subjects
• first guide: Reading in a Participatory Culture
applies appropriation to English Language Arts

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
• innovative multimedia online/offline guide
• applies NML skills to classroom subjects
• first guide: Reading in a Participatory Culture
applies appropriation to English Language Arts
the ability to meaningfully
sample and remix media content

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
• innovative multimedia online/offline guide
• applies NML skills to classroom subjects
• first guide: Reading in a Participatory Culture
applies appropriation to English Language Arts

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
• innovative multimedia online/offline guide
• applies NML skills to classroom subjects
• first guide: Reading in a Participatory Culture
applies appropriation to English Language Arts
our featured appropriators:
Herman Melville remixes Milton, Bible, mapping, cetology
Ricardo Pitts-Wiley (director) remixes Melville, local stories
Rudy Cabrera (actor) remixes language, experiences

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
• innovative multimedia online/offline guide
• applies NML skills to classroom subjects
• first guide: Reading in a Participatory Culture
applies appropriation to English Language Arts

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
• innovative multimedia online/offline guide
• applies NML skills to classroom subjects
• first guide: Reading in a Participatory Culture
applies appropriation to English Language Arts
Melville Scholar Wyn Kelley
on Ricardo Pitts-Wiley’s
Moby-Dick: Then and Now

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
• innovative multimedia online/offline guide
• applies NML skills to classroom subjects
• first guide: Reading in a Participatory Culture
applies appropriation to English Language Arts
Melville Scholar Wyn Kelley
on Ricardo Pitts-Wiley’s
Moby-Dick: Then and Now

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
collaboration between NML & Harvard’s Good Play project

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
collaboration between NML & Harvard’s Good Play project
Young People, Ethics and the New Digital Media (February 2008)
www.goodworkproject.org/research/digital.htm

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
collaboration between NML & Harvard’s Good Play project
Young People, Ethics and the New Digital Media (February 2008)
www.goodworkproject.org/research/digital.htm
•identity •privacy •ownership & authorship
•credibility •participation

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
collaboration between NML & Harvard’s Good Play project
Young People, Ethics and the New Digital Media (February 2008)
www.goodworkproject.org/research/digital.htm
•identity •privacy •ownership & authorship
•credibility •participation
online / offline multimedia “casebook”
exploring these ethical categories

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
NML applications: not necessarily transcultural

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
NML applications: not necessarily transcultural
NML theory and concepts: universally applicable

Learning Library Teachers’ Strategy Guides Ethics Casebook
(informal learning) (formal learning) (with Harvard)
NML applications: not necessarily transcultural
NML theory and concepts: universally applicable
how to go from local to global?

“long-distance collaborations across learning communities”
Learning Library goes global (2009)
- locals produce their own articulations
- locals productions in conversation via global network
network to develop new assessment strategies
- embedded, mixed method
- NML a case study for James Paul Gee’s
21st Century Assessment Project
for Situated and Sociocultural Approaches to Learning

www.newmedialiteracies.org