New Media Literacies, Student Generated Content, and the YouTube Aesthetic
The proliferation of content generation and sharing through Web 2.0 tools has created what Henry Jenkins refers to as new media literacies. We explore the application of new media literacies through digital media creation with eighth graders. This pilot project promotes online video capabilities in conjunction with the time-honored practice of adolescents reading classic and young adult literature. Through the project’s curriculum design and pedagogical apparatus, student-generated videos illustrate that complex thinking and learning and the YouTube aesthetic do not need to be mutually exclusive. We provide the theoretical foundations for our work as well as preliminary analysis of student-generated products. In future work, we will introduce a revised scaffolding process that incorporates a series of rubrics (based on Henry Jenkins framework on new media literacies and Biggs and Collis SOLO taxonomy) to facilitate evidence of complex thinking in the students’ video products.
Citation
Spires, H. & Morris, G. (2008). New media literacies, student-generated content, and the YouTube aesthetic. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2008 (pp. 4409-4418). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
PROJECT TEAM
- Dr. Hiller Spires
Co-Director - John Lee
Co-Director - Tanya Watson
Graduate Research Assistant - Lisa Hervey
Graduate Research Assistant - Kimberly Turner
Graduate Research Assistant - Ashley Hoffman
Graduate Research Assistant - Eleni Lobene
Graduate Research Assistant
