MASCLab is a hub for multimodal & digital scholarship that explores the relationship between media a
MASCLab is envisioned as a hub for multimodal and digital scholarship that explores the relationship between media and social change. We support media creation intended to spark social change, curation of and critical engagement with media through the lens of its impact on society, research and scholarship that interrogates how media and society influence each other, multimedia-based research meth
06/07/2018
We are excited about hosting Educational Video Center's Youth Documentary Workshop screening tomorrow evening at Teachers College, Columbia University!
Date: June 8th
Time: 6:00p - 8:00p (reception to follow immediately)
Place: Cowin Auditorium
Open to all - come by and support youth media, young filmmakers, and much needed critical work that helps to reframe these times...!
05/13/2018
Exciting things happening at on the front! We've been working on a game about , and engaging youth in the game design process. Read our latest blog post to find out more:
Fake news as child’s play? Designing a game about fake news and media literacy As Lalitha conveyed so eloquently in her earlier blog post on citizenship as multimodal practice, we at MASCLab had an impactful period of introspection and soul-searching (read: a very tough time)…
05/02/2018
Check out our latest blog post featuring a recap of our Visual Research for Social Change conference and some images from the day! Thanks to all who participated and helped out!
Visual Research for Social Change Conference: Wrap-up Last Wednesday, MASCLab in partnership with the Visual Research Center hosted the first ever Visual Research for Social Change conference at the Smith Learning Theater on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 …
04/11/2018
A few peeks in at last week's MASCLab-curated event, Digital Learning @ TC.
03/29/2018
Great article about our upcoming exhibition!
High Wire Act: Showcasing the digital revolution at TC The Teachers College Digital Learning Exhibition is an interactive showcase that will go live on April 4th in TC’s new Smith Learning Theater on the fourth floor of the College’s Gottesman libraries.
Join us for the Digital Learning Exhibition Teachers College, Columbia University, April 4, 2018, 10a-4p.
We've worked with the Office of Digital Learning at TC to curate an interactive peek into a few of the ways that the digital learning is unfolding at the college and impacting a variety of fields including the learning sciences, learning analytics, art education, instructional technology and design, literacy, and more.
You'll have another chance to check out the exhibition on Saturday, April 7th, as part of the TC Academic Festival https://t.co/gzgSmsc4xX
Hope to see you there!
03/08/2018
Professor Literat's article on Youth Responses to the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election in Online Affinity Networks is now available!
https://academic.oup.com/joc/article/68/1/75/4915321
You can also listen to our podcast episode about this research.
https://soundcloud.com/masclab/episode-2-youth-political-participation-and-online-creativity
03/02/2018
Thanks to and New Learning Times for this multimedia recap of last semester's !
Podfest: The Media and Social Change Lab’s First Podcast Showcase Lalitha Vasudevan on curating interactive podcast exchanges.
02/08/2018
VISUAL RESEARCH FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 (after AERA)
Location: Teachers College, Columbia University, New York
Co-organizers: The Visual Research Center (VRC) & the Media and Social Change Lab (MASCLab) at Teachers College, Columbia University
Keynote by: Wendy Luttrell, Professor of Urban Education, Critical Psychology, and Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The Visual Research for Social Change (VRSC) AERA post-conference invites graduate students to submit proposals for presentations, performances, and works-in-progress that bring together, express, and strengthen the intersections between visual research practices, media-based scholarship, and a commitment to justice and social change. Graduate students, artists, and practitioners are invited to share their cutting-edge visual methodologies, including their use of visual products (e.g., photos, videos, paintings, collage) and visual data, critical media analysis, multimodal storytelling, visual Internet-based research, artistic representations, and performances. We embrace interdisciplinary approaches and welcome proposals from different academic fields and across multiple domains.
CONFERENCE AIMS:
● To facilitate greater connections among graduate students and nurture interdisciplinary research projects for social change that exploit the use of visual methods and visual data across domains. Exploring the potential of visual methodologies challenges and transcends disciplinary boundaries, fostering complex ways of seeing within a trans-disciplinary forum.
● To build an interdisciplinary community of students, researchers, scholars, artists, and practitioners committed to visual research that advances collective scholarship for social action, social justice, and social change.
● To promote critical-activist work as a means of public engagement and social justice. Beyond the “academy monopoly,” VRSC engages with and promotes visual research and the work of local communities, museums, schools, artists, practitioners, and galleries that has significant potential for translational impact on social change.
● As a post-AERA graduate student conference, to provide a forum for networking and professional development, built around a collective reflection on the relationship between academic research, the visual world, and our own potential contributions to engendering justice and social change.
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
To submit a proposal, please send an abstract of maximum 300 words and 1-3 visual artifacts as attachments or links (images, videos, links to online resources, etc) to [email protected] by February 15, 2018. In your proposal, please specify the session you’d like to present at (see details below).
CONFERENCE SESSIONS:
VRSC invites you to submit a proposal by choosing one of the three conference sessions at which you wish to present your research. While each session focuses on a line of visual inquiry, all three aim to create connections that highlight visual research for social change.
● IMAGE-BASED RESEARCH welcomes a wide range of forms of visual inquiry for social justice, including visual ethnography, visual participatory research, visual Internet-based research, and any other visual approaches that use images as primary sources of data.
● PERFORMATIVE INQUIRY seeks visual work that performs or enacts the research questions, and uses methods like performance ethnography or embodied visual methodologies to shed light on the social justice phenomena being investigated, and possibilities for social change.
● IMAGI(NI)NG THE RESEARCH PROCESS invites works-in-progress that engage with visual methods and/or visual data, with the aim of encouraging reflexivity towards the process of data collection and analysis, and engendering conversations and feedback on research at various stages of completion.
Questions? Please contact us at [email protected] or visit our websites: Visual Research Center and Media and Social Change Lab.
12/14/2017
Hope you can join us tomorrow for ! 5 - 7 PM at Teachers College, Columbia University - come celebrate our podcast series launch in the new Smith Learning Theater! masclab.org/podfest for details.
Podfest: December 15, 5-7pm (Looking for the Podfest RSVP? Click here.) Join us December 15 for an experimental audio adventure as part of the launch of our new podcast series! Click here to RSVP. Space is limited.
12/07/2017
8 days until !
Want to learn more about Kyle Oliver's teaching & research, highlighted in podcast episode 3?
Check out the Digital Literacy Toolkit for Theological Educators, an in-progress resource for helping seminary professors train their students for work in the new media ecology.
http://digitalliteracytoolkit.org/faculty/