BackHome
Refresh: Off
Session Summary
Share...

Direct link:

Digital Ecologies of Hope: A Natural History of Emerging Media Futures

Thu, April 9, 9:45 to 11:15am PDT (9:45 to 11:15am PDT), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 515B

Session Type: Structured Poster Session

Abstract

This structured poster session presents a carefully illustrated field guide documenting hopeful educational media practices across diverse learning contexts. Using naturalist metaphors, 12 researchers will showcase "specimens" where media enables agency, resilience, and collective becoming—from students using AI for aspirational self-imaging to youth creating meme-based solidarity networks to transgender teens documenting voice changes as community care. Each poster follows field guide conventions including classification, habitat mapping, conservation status, and hand-illustrated visual documentation. This experimental approach addresses AERA 2026's call to "unforget histories" while "imagining futures" through collaborative documentation. Drawing on educational utopian traditions (Greene, 1988; Halpin, 2003), the session demonstrates how research itself becomes an act of possibility-making, creating new visions for documenting student agency and modeling collective knowledge production.

Sub Unit

Chair

Papers

Session Organizer