Transmedia Knowledge For Liberal Arts And Community Engagement

Download or read book Transmedia Knowledge for Liberal Arts and Community Engagement written by Jon McKenzie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-27 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets forth a pedagogy for renewing the liberal arts by combining critical thinking, media activism, and design thinking. Using the StudioLab approach, the author seeks to democratize the social and technical practices of digital culture just as nineteenth century education sought to democratize literacy. This production of transmedia knowledge—from texts and videos to comics and installations—moves students between seminar, studio, lab, and field activities. The book also wrestles with the figure of Plato and the very medium of knowledge to re-envision higher education in contemporary societies, issuing a call for community engagement as a form of collective thought-action.