Examining Intergenerational Cultures of Collaboration, Resistance, and Social Dreaming in Multimedia Learning Environments

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium offers models of authentic and critical partnership between youth, teachers, community members, and researchers in which goals related to learning, multimodality, and social justice are jointly developed and realized rather than dictated by the pressures and reward systems of normative educational systems. The papers explore innovative research-practice collaborations taking place across the U.S. grounded in participatory and social design frameworks that strive to honor and amplify the voices and expertise of those directly affected by systemic inequities while supporting dreams of alternate publics. Presenters will highlight how intergenerational inquiry mediated by tools of writing, games, social media, and storytelling negotiates and subverts current unjust social arrangements and forges cultures of relational trust and vulnerable learning.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Media, Culture, and Learning

Chair

• Jennifer Higgs, University of California - Davis

Papers

• A Tribute to George Floyd on Grand Theft Auto V: Online Gaming as a Site for Speculative Activism - Arturo Cortez, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Leveraging Media Creases to Challenge Colonial Meaning-Making: Teacher and Youth TikTok Literacies - José Ramón Lizárraga, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Reimagining the Feedback Relation: Humanizing Student-Teacher and Research Participant–Researcher Feedback Cycles - Kalonji L. Nzinga, University of Colorado - Boulder; Shirin Vossoughi, Northwestern University; Allena G. Berry, University School of Nashville

• Youth as Philosophers of Technology - Sepehr Vakil, Northwestern University; Maxine McKinney de Royston, Erikson Institute

• Guns, Schools, and Digital Storytelling: Redesigning Media Literacy Education for Uncertain Futures - Nicole Mirra, Rutgers University; Antero Garcia, Stanford University

Discussant

• Kris D. Gutiérrez, University of California - Berkeley