Media Praxis

Feminist Digital Research/Pedagogy/Writing as Community-Based Practice

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
March 31, 2014 – 17:42

This blog post serves a second function: it is also my contribution to the Pitzer College publication, The Engaged Faculty Collection, a project spearheaded by my colleague Tessa Hicks Peterson as part of the Celebrate Pitzer at 50 festivities. ... read more »

Online Learning Summit

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
March 14, 2014 – 00:13

FemTechNet, collaborative makers of “the anti-MOOC,” were graciously, no I’d even say studiously received by leaders of the bellies-of-the-beast at last weekend’s Online Learning Summit, hosted by Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, and Stanford (the great research institutions who put money and a spotlight on what would first be the year, but quickly the boondoggle of, the MOOC.). ... read more »

MOOCing the Prison?

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
February 20, 2014 – 17:17

My last post, MOOCing the Liberal Arts? concluded with this suggestion: “For those of us in higher education, including our students, our work is to provide MOOC alternatives by using technology, and other means, to improve what we do and to open access to what we have.” ... read more »

MOOCing the Liberal Arts?

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
February 19, 2014 – 18:17

I had the opportunity to speak this past weekend with my colleague and friend, Liz Losh, about the FemTechNet DOCC2013 as part of the Gaede Institute’s yearly conversation on the Liberal Arts, this one on ... read more »

Blogging (as) Feminist Digital Pedagogy

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
January 27, 2014 – 15:28

Enjoying a much-deserved drink with highly-Twitterate Jesse Daniels after a few days of talk, workshops, and video dialogues in Ann Arbor about Feminist Digital Pedagogy, we were discussing the changing culture of blogging, and other social media forms in relation to our own ever-changing digital metronomes. ... read more »

Multi-Modal (Peer) Writing annd Review

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
January 17, 2014 – 11:41

These are loose ideas to initiate conversation with Julia Lesage and friends from ADA .It will be a live, online conversation on, January 17: Multimodal Editing and the Future (join us)! ... read more »

Facing Down the DST/DS Divide

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
January 14, 2014 – 15:16

My Visual Research Methods course has ended, and as ever, my grad students in a range of programs at CGU have done inspiring and inventive work to wrap up this class which pushes traditional Humanities grad students to roll up their sleeves, work with their hands, imagine new audiences and formats, and think about academic labor and standards using new rubrics. ... read more »

Feminist Tech Gift Exchange

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
December 19, 2013 – 14:21

The final for my Pitzer node of FemTechNet’s DOCC 2013 was a craftmaking/gift exchange project where my 12 students had to make something that expressed a feminist interpretation or use of technology by making something to hold and cherish and then give away.

Objectives (developed by Anca Birzescu and Radhika Gajjala): ... read more »

Evolution of the MOOCs?

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
November 25, 2013 – 19:22

I am recently returned from the 9th Annual Policy Summit, Rise of the MOOCs: Foreshadowing the Coming Transformation of Higher Education? held by the Mid-West Higher Education Compact. ... read more »

Signification Survival: Jump Cut 55

by Alex Juhasz — Pitzer College
November 22, 2013 – 12:44

The new issue of Jump Cut (55, Fall 2013) is hot off the presses, and as always, it is bursting with great scholarly work on any number of issues near and dear to my heart: labor, third cinema, new queer cinema (by my compatriot, Roxanne Samer), feminist porn (by the delightful, Erica Rand), independent and experimental media (with an essay on ... read more »