Lecture: Thursday, October 11th at 3:30pm - 5pm (With Reception). C4C, Flatirons Room
Workshop: Friday, October 12th, 11am–1pm (Lunch provided). Physics Building, Commons Room, 11th Floor
About Jonathan Alexander: Jonathan Alexander is a writer, literacy scholar, and cultural critic. He is Chancellor's Professor of English and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, where he serves as the Founding Director of the Center for Excellence in Writing & Communication. He is also the YA editor and a frequent contributor for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Thursday Evening Lecture: DIY, Inc.: Rhetorics of the Popular in the Age of Spreadable Media
Let’s reconsider the wealth of DIY media production by young content providers recruited to the “culture industries.” In this multi-media presentation, Alexander shows how “spreadable media” enlists these artists with the allure of both media agency and resistance to their own exploitation. To make art, they deploy complex practices of negotiation and accommodation, leveraging their content to draw attention to themselves in an increasingly participatory culture and then to inscribe novel political critiques and advocacies.
Friday Workshop: Pedagogies of the Possible—or, What the Writing Lives of Millennials Teach Us about Media and Literacy Futures
Meet “Mike,” who finished a degree in creative writing, and now writes advertising copy, stand-up comedy and podcasts about superheroes. He didn’t learn these translations in any one course in college, yet is discovering ways to create income, a sustainable career, and political expression. Alexander reports on a multi-campus research project that asks how students “find their ways” after college. What sorts of knowledge and composing skill develops in and out of the classroom to that we are attuned to how a diverse student population engenders different kinds of knowledge as their professional and personal lives unfold.
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All events are open and free to the public. RSVP for Workshop Only. Email john.ackerman@colorado.edu.
This Event is Sponsored by: Program for Writing and Rhetoric
The WRITE Lab
School of Education
College of Arts and Sciences