There's an excellent conversation going on on frameworks, an ancient listserv dedicated to experimental film practice and criticism.
It started out about good experimental film books, the lack of market for them (not enough uni courses to sell textbooks) and became a discussion generally about student reading and the death of books. I.e. one professor lamenting that when he assigned readings, students actually went to the dean to complain that they had to read books! Anyway, this message below seems especially good for nettime. It's about learning from youtube and an experiment to figure out what happens when this dominant media culture is allowed to rule the university classroom. The frameworks discussion is archived, by thread or date, at http://www.hi-beam.net/fw/fw41/0642.html . Nettime, meet frameworks! (PS - anyone know a simple way to cross-post? Was going to do it but anyone replying to both would get rejected unless they signed up for the opposite list - seems clunky!!) Begin forwarded message: From: Chuck Kleinhans <[email protected]> Date: December 8, 2009 12:44:07 AM PST (CA) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: looking for good intro text Reply-To: Experimental Film Discussion List <[email protected]> In continuation of Patty Zimmerman's points about new media and pedagogy, one of the smartest articles I know on the subject, from Alex Juhasz based on her experience teaching a course on YouTube http://aljean.wordpress.com/tag/learning-from-youtube/ Her site/blog covers a lot of terrain and is well worth exploring: http://aljean.wordpress.com/ Chuck Kleinhans __________________________________________________________________ For info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at <[email protected]>. * FLICK's WEBSITE & BLOG: http://www.flickharrison.com * FACEBOOK http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=860700553 * MYSPACE: http://myspace.com/flickharrison # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
