Tara McPherson, Associate Professor; Co-Editor, International Journal of Media and Learning; Editor, Vectors.
USC
Three Expertise Keywords:
K-6-media-and-learning, multimedia-publishing, technology-in-social-context
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Why Digital Media and Learning?
I am invested/involved in the future of Digital Media and Learning because I believe new technologies can help us craft a more just and peaceful world but only if people engage with them, study them, and organize around them.
Recent Posts:
- Tara McPherson: Researching Multimedia Using Multimedia (December 18, 2007)
- How are young people using digital media in surprising ways? (December 3, 2006)
- This week’s theme: innovative uses and unexpected outcomes (November 28, 2006)
- Tara McPherson: How Literate Are You? (November 27, 2006)
Description of Current Work:
I do three types of work in this field. First, as a media scholar, I study historical technologies (looking at “early” multimedia and digital computing circa 1960) in their social contexts. Second, I work with LA charter schools to integrate technology into learning. And, third, I founded and edit an electronic journal that fosters experiments multimodal publishing.
Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:
Vectors, http://www.vectorsjournal.org. Editor, Digital Youth, Innovation and the Unexpected (MIT Press, 2008)
