Design Education and Electracy: (Hot Debate)

“Every selfie tells a story …”: LGBTQ youth lifestreams and new media narratives as connective identity texts

“…My analysis of Jack, Camille, and Zeke’s visual work shows the diverse streams they created—networks and images that offered affinity and gave voice to articulations of gendered and sexual subjectivities that sometimes fell silent. While an in-depth analysis of Jack, Camille, and Zeke’s work on Tumblr provides an analytical vantage point into how youth are designing opportunities for new forms of semiotic meaning-making, it also points us toward the age of “electracy” (Arroyo, 2013; Ulmer, 2003). Accounting for how the digital moves us away from ekphrasis (description), electracy privileges experienc e as we create and compose new media narratives.…”

Performing the Digital : Performance Studies and Performances in Digital Cultures

“…McLuhan 1967Ong 1982Ulmer 2002). At this scale, performative digitality tears at the Western foundations of episteme, at its modes of conceptual training, its alphabetic media, its arborescent infrastructures.…”

Digital storytelling in Australia

“…According to this view, visual culture and computing technology have developed so rapidly that traditional teaching methodologies, especially in the arts and humanities, have become anomalous for many contemporary university students. The embrace of multimedia and digital technologies is considered, then, to be a legitimate and indeed necessary strategy for university educators to ensure the relevance of their subject disciplines, to engage with contemporary students and to enhance their learning outcomes (Daley, 2003; Kellner, 2008; Schreibman et al, 2004; Siemens and Schreibman, 2007; Ulmer, 2006). Digital storytelling, it is claimed by writers like those who contributed to the AHHE special issue, is an example of the kind of methodology that contemporary tertiary educators should consider engaging with to promote authentic learning connections with their students.…”