29.028 - Participatory Media as Intervention and Method

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium describes possibilities for innovation in research and pedagogical practice through experiences and challenges emerging from participatory media projects. In thinking about participatory media both as intervention and method, each paper locates broader possibilities for educational researchers and practitioners to reconsider some basic assumptions of emancipatory practice; for example, the papers bring into focus the dynamics of power and responsiveness in intergenerational collaborations, the ethics of dissemination, and the aesthetics of ‘evidence’ in educational research. The papers represent diverse sites of practice: digital storytelling, visual narrative, game design, sexual health, and STEM learning. The method(s) of analysis draw upon examples of media projects in Toronto, Montreal and Chicago and offer rich descriptions of the complex processes that foster them.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 3: Challenging Methodological and Representational Boundaries

Chair

• Karyn E. Sandlos, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Papers

• Listening in the Commons: Community Media Projects and the Reinvention of Education - Bronwen E. Low, McGill University; Chloe Brushwood Rose, York University

• South Side Stories: Digital Storytelling to Reframe Research and Public Discourse on the Sexuality and Health of African American Youth - Alida Bouris, University of Chicago; Seed Lynn, University of Chicago

• Alternate Reality Games and Game-Based Learning: Project S.E.E.D. - Patrick Jagoda, University of Chicago; Melissa Gilliam, University of Chicago

• Vulnerability in Educational Research: Reading High School Students' Multimedia Stories of Power and Place - Karyn E. Sandlos, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Discussant

• Paula M. Salvio, University of New Hampshire