DIGITAL engAGEment: Media. Literate. #activist

DIGITAL engAGEment encompasses myriad ways in which humans encounter, utilize, create, and participate with digital technologies, processes, experiences, cultures, and environments in the contemporary moment.

 

The next DIGITAL engAGEment Conference will take place in May 2020 at the Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway, in Manhattan’s Financial District.

Keep an eye on this webpage and follow @BCTVRMedia on Twitter to receive announcements about our call for proposals this fall.

We encourage the proposal of:

  • Paper presentations
  • Paper panels
  • Roundtables
  • Workshops
  • Installations
  • Interventions
  • Interrogations
  • Acts of digital participation/emancipation/empowerment

And we want proposals from:

  • Media scholars
  • Students
  • Activists
  • Hacktivists
  • Reflective/Reactive media users
  • Producers
  • You!

If you have questions about the conference, e-mail MJ Robinson, chair of the Department of Television, Radio & Emerging Media.

Previous Conferences

2018 Conference

May 18, 2018

Center for Worker Education (CUNY)
25 Broadway, 7th Floor
New York, New York

Follow @BCTVRMedia on Twitter for conference updates.

8:45–9:15 a.m. Check-In and Continental Breakfast

9:15–9:30 a.m. Welcoming Remarks / Media. Literate. #activist

Katherine Fry, Professor and Chair, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College,
DIGITAL EngAGEment Conference Co-Chair @katherinegfry

9:30–10:45 a.m. Paper Sessions/Panels

The Future Is Now: Digitally Engaging Education
  • Moderator: Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, Executive Director, NAMLE @ciullalipkin
    “Unlocking the Liberation Doctrine in Media Literacy and Higher Education”
  • Jayne Cubbage, Assistant Professor, Bowie State University
    “The Knowledge Brokers: How Old Media Is Shaping New Education”
  • Keith Bevacqua, M.A. Student, Queens College (CUNY)
    “Preparing to Be Digital: A Paradigm Shift for Media Study in Higher Education”
  • Katherine Fry, Professor, Brooklyn College
Media Binds or Blinds? Participatory Action Research in Deconstructing Myths and Misconceptions and Storytelling with Data
  • Melda Yildiz, Chair/Associate Professor, New York Institute of Technology
  • Juliet Boone, New York State Teacher, New York Institute of Technology
  • Amr Swid, Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology
Representing and Resisisting: Gender and Sexuality in Media
  • Moderator: Mobina Hashmi, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College @mobinah
    “The Sexualization of Female Athletes in Mass Media”
  • Neil Malvone, Department of Kinesiology, Brooklyn College
    “Broke the Mold”
  • Erin Hart, M.S. Candidate, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College
    “ISSA MOOD”
  • Jessica Jupiter, M.F.A. Candidate, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College
Changing the World in Our Digital Networks: Social Media Activism
  • Moderator: Jamie Cohen, Digital Humanities and New Media Department, Molloy College
    “Exploring CODEPINK: Strategic Practices for Social Media Activism”
  • Wiebke Reile, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Hawai’I at Manoa
    “Searching for the Politicized Aesthetics of Social Media Through the Lens of Benjamin’s ‘Work of Art’ Essay”
  • Alyssa Adkins, M.A. Student, University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, Minnesota)
    “Trash Talk: Instagram Activism and the ‘Zero Waste’ Movement”
  • Catherine Burgess, M.S. Candidate, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College

11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Workshops

Fake-News + Media Poetry Workshop
  • Alexandra Juhasz, Professor and Chair, Department of Film, Brooklyn College
  • Orr Menirom, Independent Media Artist and Activist
The Power of the Voice: Audio Documentation and Reporting for Change
  • Sandra Lopez-Monsalve, Brooklyn College
  • Jared Marcelle, WNYC Radio Rookies/#CaughtPodcast
Learning to Digitally Engage
  • Michelle Ciccone, Technology Integration Specialist, Christa McAuliffe Charter School
  • Reuben Loewy, Living Online Lab @livingonlinelab

12:30–1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30–3 p.m. Interventions and Activism Exhibit

Student projects from the M.S. Program in Media Studies, and the M.F.A. in Television Production, at Brooklyn College will be informally showcased in the Computer Lab as a self-guided experience. Presenters: Scott Eden (M.S.), Erika Gregorio (M.F.A.), Karina Robledo (M.F.A.), Cristina Soare (M.F.A.), Lawrence Williams (M.F.A.).

Screenings/Brooklyn College Graduate Student Projects

To accommodate attendees who wish to see more than one of the screenings that participants are showing today, we are running two identical 45-minute screening sessions (1:30–2:15 p.m. and 2:15–3 p.m.). The video creators will screen their work and then discuss/present information about its creation as well as take questions. Enjoy!

  • “El árbol de la vida (la reina, la hija y las mujeres)”/”The Tree of Life (the queen, the daughter and the women)”
    Bernardita Llanos, Professor and Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Brooklyn College
  • “Fight Like a Girl”
    Beatriz Alonso, Independent Video Producer
  • “That’s We Language: Using Media to Preserve the Culture of Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast”
Digital Interventions and Activism

Students from the M.S. in Media Studies and M.F.A. in Television Production, Brooklyn College, present their final media activism projects for their seminar class: Jamie Cristello (M.F.A.), Julia Fitzgerald (M.F.A.), Joy Henry-Goodwin (M.S.), Diana Mei (M.S.), Albert Negrete Rimbau (M.F.A.), Darres Quiles (M.S.).

3:15–4:45 p.m. Power Panel: Activists, Interventions, Communities: The Future of Media Activism in Today’s Political Climate

  • Moderator: Katherine Fry, Professor and Chair, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College, DIGITAL engAGEment Conference Co-Chair
  • Jennifer Pozner, Founder/Executive Director, Women in Media and News (WIMN)
  • James Bernard, Executive Director, Public Allies, NYC
  • Jamia Wilson, Executive Director and Publisher, Feminist Press

Pozner, Bernard, and Wilson represent some of the most innovative and broad-ranging media activists in the New York City area. This diverse group of community leaders and organizers will share their experiences in media activism, media literacy, and advocacy; discuss the contemporary state of media activism; and consider future developments, innovations, and directions for media literacy activism and engagement.

4:45–5 p.m. Closing Remarks

  • Katherine Fry, Professor and Chair, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College, DIGITAL engAGEment Conference Co-Chair

Informal Ending Reception

Join us at Ulysses’ Folk House, 95 Pearl Street, in Manhattan’s Financial District for lively post-conference confab.

DIGITAL EngAGEment III – May 2019

Don’t miss the call for DIGITAL EngAGEment III – May 2019! Follow us on Twitter @BCTVRMedia for updates and the paper call.

2017 Conference

May 5, 2017

Center for Worker Education—CUNY
25 Broadway
New York, New York

8:15–9 a.m.: Check in

Continental Breakfast

9–9:30 a.m.: Welcoming Remarks / Media Literacy in the 21st Century

Auditorium

  • Katherine Fry, Professor and Chair, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College, DIGITAL EngAGEment Conference, Co‐chair
  • Maria Conelli, Dean, School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts, Brooklyn College

9:40–11 a.m.: Breakout Sessions I

Demo / Workshop: “Critically Analyzing Conspiracy Theories”

Auditorium

  • Renee Hobbs, Professor, Media Education Lab, University of Rhode Island
Demo / Workshop: “Teaching Digital Literacy through PSYCH+Feminism: A Wikipedia Initiative”

Large Conference Room

  • Elizabeth Che, Graduate Student, College of Staten Island / CUNY Graduate Center
  • Patricia Brooks, Professor/Director, Language and Learning Lab, College of Staten Island (CUNY)
Digital Citizenship and the Public Sphere

Room 7–10

Moderator: Keith Hughes

“Internet Studies Is the New ‘Digital Citizenship’”

  • Michelle Ciccone, Technology Integration Specialist, Christa McAuliffe Charter School
  • Reuben Loewy, Living Online Lab

“Expanding a Media Literacy Curriculum to Deal with Public Policy Issues: A Student-generated Social Media and Research Agenda for Analyzing Media Coverage and Raising Awareness of Opiate Abuse”

  • Rachel Kovacs, Adjunct Associate Professor, College of Staten Island (CUNY)
Fact / Fiction: Issues Around Storytelling in the Digital Age

Room 7–13

“Sherlock, Watson and You: An Experiment on Shared Interactive Storytelling in Virtual Reality”

  • Jason Moore, Assistant Professor, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College

“Media Ethics Considerations for Media Makers: Think / Point / Shoot”

  • Annette Danto, Professor, Department of Film, Brooklyn College

“Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing”

  • Alexandra Juhasz, Chair, Department of Film, Brooklyn College
Interventions and Activism

Computer Lab

Students and alumni from the M.S. Program in Media Studies, and the M.F.A. in Television Production, at Brooklyn College showcase and demonstrate their media activism projects from their final seminar in the program.

These are available for review until 1 p.m.

11:15 a.m.–noon: Keynote Speaker

Auditorium

  • Douglass Rushkoff, Media Theorist and Professor of Media Studies, Queens College (CUNY)

12:15–1:15 p.m.: Lunch

Luncheon speakers:

  • Michelle Ciulla-Lipkin, Executive Director, National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE)

“Alternative Facts and Holes of Oblivion: Checking in in a Technomediatic 21st C.”

  • Adeena Karasick, Professor, Humanities and Media Studies, Pratt Institute

1–2 p.m.: Breakout Sessions II

Demo / Workshop: “Cultivating Civic Activists in an Age of Digital Spectacle: Re-imaging Social Technologies for Civic Expression and Agency”

Auditorium

  • Paul Mihailidis, Associate Professor, Emerson College
Demo / Workshop: “Fair, Balanced and Accurate?: News Literacy for Today’s Media Consumer”

Room 7–10

  • Jane Cubbage, Assistant Professor, Bowie State University
Demo / Workshop: “VR/AR Digital Media Literacy”

Room 7–13

  • Jamie Cohen, Assistant Professor / Program Director of New Media, Molloy College
Demo / Workshop: “Digital Literacy, Social Justice and Puberty: How the New York Public Library’s Middle School Innovation Labs Uses a Blended Learning Model to Foster the Next Generation of Conscientious Makers”

Large Conference Room

  • Beth Dukes, Associate Manager, Out-of-School Time, New York Public Library
Demo / Workshop: Pirate Radio in the 21st Century

Small Conference Room

  • John Anderson, Assistant Professor / Director of Journalism and Media Studies, Brooklyn College

2:15–3:30 p.m.: Breakout Sessions III

Media Literacy, Identity and Expression in the Digital Age

Room 7–10

Moderator: Mark Hannah

“The Future of Media Literacy: Advances in Human-Machine Connection”

  • Renee Cherow-O’Leary, President, Education for the 21st Century

“Sharing Political Expression on Social Media: Who Stands to Benefit?”

  • Joel Penney, Assistant Professor, Montclair State University

“Startup Celebrity: The Influence of Image-based Social Media on Adolescents’ Identify Formation and the Risk of Identity Commodification”

  • Catherine Burgess, Graduate Student, Media Studies, Brooklyn College
Fake News and the Classroom: Strategies for Educators

Room 7–13

Moderator: Michelle Ciulla-Lipkin

“Hack Fake News: Empowering Students Who Learn Differently to Be Savvy Media Consumers and Creators”

  • Helen Carey, STEAM Program Manager, Tech Kids Unlimited, LLC

“Getting Spun: How College Students Verify News Stories”

  • David Magolis, Associate Professor, Bloomsburg University

“The Importance of Acknowledging Our Implicit Biases when Fighting Fake News Through Media Education”

  • Elizaveta Friesem, Media Education Lab

“Reading Beyond Slogans and Soundbites”

  • Hugh Kesson, Temple University College of Education
Teaching Media Literacy Through Television, Film, and the Web

Large Conference Room

“Pay Close Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain: Media Literacy Through Media Production”

  • Siobhan Cavanagh, Graduate Student, Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Brooklyn College

“I Don’t Buy It: Exploring Elementary Students Application of Media Literacy Skills to Persuasive Techniques Used in Presidential Election Advertisements”

  • Alice Sullivan, Doctoral Candidate, University of Texas at Austin

“Literacies for Life: Teaching Literacies Across Formats and Platforms”

  • Joy Piedmont, High School Technology Instructor, LREI – Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School

3:45–5 p.m.: Breakout Sessions IV

Open Forum: How Media Literacy Can Fight Fake News

Auditorium

  • Yonty Friesem, Assistant Professor, Central Connecticut State University
  • Renee Hobbs, Professor, University of Rhode Island; Founding Director, URI Media Education Lab
  • Katherine Fry, Professor, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College, and Co-founder, The LAMP
  • Allison Butler, Director, Media Literacy Certificate Program, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Bill Densmore, Director, Journalism that Matters, Research Fellow, Donald W. Reynolds, Journalism Institute, Missouri School of Journalism, University of Missouri
Demo / Workshop: “Ways to Critically Evaluate Digital Media: Resources for Teaching First-Year Students”

Room 7–10

  • Christine Martorana, Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island (CUNY) / CUNY Graduate Center
  • Amy Stempler, Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island (CUNY)
  • Patricia Brooks, Professor, College of Staten Island (CUNY)
  • Elizabeth Che, Graduate Student, College of Staten Island (CUNY)
Communication Education: Media Literacy Through DIGITAL EngAGEment

Large Conference Room

  • Amanda Damiano, Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism Media Studies, and Public Relations, Hofstra University
  • Jingsi Christina Wu, Assistant Professor, Department of Journalism Media Studies, and Public Relations, Hofstra University

5–5:30 p.m.: Closing Remarks / Presentation of Daylong Project by M.S. / M.F.A. Students

Auditorium

  • Katherine Fry, Professor and Chair, Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College, DIGITAL EngAGEment Conference, Co-chair

5:30 p.m.: Ending Reception

Join us for hosted appetizers and lively discussion at a nearby establishment in Manhattan’s Financial District.

Brooklyn. All in.

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