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Holly Willis

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New Media Design in and as Pedagogical Practice

Holly Willis

Director of Academic Programs

Institute for Multimedia Literacy, School of Cinematic Arts

University of Southern California

We are in the midst of a radical redefinition of literacy wrought by the centrality of networked, visual and aural media that challenge the privileging of reading and writing as central indicators of literacy. Calls for reconsidering literacy are multiple and varied, as is the scholarly work dedicated to expanding definitions of literacy, many of which either overtly or indirectly place design at the center of this shift. As design educators, it is incumbent upon us to participate in this broad redefinition, but more than that, we need to integrate our understanding of how design functions in the realm of new media into our own pedagogical practices. How might we reconsider teaching within the larger context of new media practices and computational models? In short, what is a pedagogical practice for design students transformed by networks, algorithms and participatory culture?

These videos by Michael Wesch set the stage for my talk:

The Machine Is Us/ing Us

A Vision of Students Today

USC's Institute for Multimedia Literacy

Honors Program in Multimedia Scholarship

Multimedia in the Core

Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular

Second Life : IML Space http://slurl.com/secondlife/IML/130/128/102">SLURL

Web 2.0 Teaching Tools

Social Bookmarking and Tagging

Blogs

Wikis