Interface at the Core of Media Education: Connecting Infrastructures of Digital Media with Users’ Interactions and Content for Critical Pedagogy

Robbeets, Caroline;Jacques, Jerry;Fastrez, Pierre;Jeong, Hyeon-Seon;Mizukoshi, Shin;et.al.
(2023) Global Media Education Summit 2023 — Location: Vancouver (2.March.2023)

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Interfaces define the ways in which users interact with the content of digital media, with other users who use them, and with the underlying technological infrastructure. While interfaces play a crucial role in the interaction between humans and machines, media education has not paid much attention to them. Considering how crucial they are to understanding topics such as monetization of attention, data disclosure or ‘addictive’ or ‘over-dependent’ media behavior, it is even more surprising that their importance is less recognized. Interfaces can be investigated as a doorstep for critical inquiry to challenge and connect the technical, informational, and social dimensions of media literacy. This conversation will take the form of a seminar gathering different perspectives about pedagogical strategies for addressing the issues raised by digital media interfaces in media education. Caroline Robbeets and Jerry Jacques will present a research project conducted in Belgium that aims to raise teenagers' critical awareness through designing their own interfaces. Taking into account parents' fears and concerns, Hyeon-Seon Jeong will reflect on the pedagogical strategies that can be used to explore digital environments with young children. Shin Mizukoshi will contextualize and analyze the weaving role of digital media interfaces within the broader context of contemporary media biotope. Pierre Fastrez will sketch out what an interface literacy may be by exploring contributions from semio-cognitive theory of human-computer interaction. This seminar will provide an opportunity for the audience to join in the discussion to identify alternative pedagogical strategies to develop media literacy.
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Robbeets, C., Jacques, J., Fastrez, P., Jeong, H.-S., Mizukoshi, S., & et al. (2023). Interface at the Core of Media Education: Connecting Infrastructures of Digital Media with Users’ Interactions and Content for Critical Pedagogy. Global Media Education Summit 2023, Vancouver. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/29656