Alexis Carreiro
Alexis Carreiro is an Assistant Professor at Queens University of Charlotte. During her first year at Queens, she created a Digital Citizenship program as a way to help students see how to use digital technology in meaningful ways that positively impact the communities in which they work and live. Her research and teaching examines the power, politics, and production of media and technology. Her publication “Rollergirls: Superhero Rhetoric in Post-Feminist Television” critiques the “girl-power” concept as forms of feminist empowerment because it conflates superficial, post-feminist aesthetics with real feminist politics. She teaches students how media texts are constructed for political and ideological purposes as a way to inspire students to create their own stories—and solve—real social problems. Her professional experience includes event production (the Grammy Awards, New York City), corporate video production (various, Boston), and media literacy grant research and implementation (Austin, Texas). She also co-directed and edited a short documentary about media literacy education. The documentary (Generation Digital) screened at film festivals in 2004 and 2008 and can be seen here as part of the “Dispatches from the Literacy Wars” project (2012).
Carolyn Cocca
Carolyn Cocca is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics, Economics, and Law at the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury. Her courses are geared toward developing students’ political literacy and sense of efficacy to organize for social change and social justice. She directed a $200,000 grant from the Department of Justice to combat dating violence and sexual assault on college campuses, and is the author of Jailbait: The Politics of Statutory Rape Laws in the United States. Her current research focuses on the educational inequities wrought by economic, political, and social inequalities, and employing pedagogical approaches that empower young people to push for more equal opportunities.
Stephen Coleman
Stephen Coleman is Professor of Political Communication and Co-director of the Centre for Digital Citizenship at the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds. He is also Honorary Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen and Research Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. Coleman’s most recent publications include Connecting Democracy: Online Consultation and the Flow of Political Communication (with Peter M. Shane, 2011), The Media and the Public: ‘Them’ and ‘Us’ in Media Discourse (with Karen Ross, 2009) and The Internet and Democratic Citizenship: Theory, Practice and Policy (with Jay G. Blumler, 2009) – winner of the American Political Science Association award for best book of the year on politics and information technology. He has served as a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Information Select Committee inquiry on ICT and public participation in Parliament, as a member of the Puttnam Commission on parliamentary communication with the public and as Chair of the Electoral Reform Society’s Independent Commission on Alternative Voting Methods.
Vanessa Domine
Vanessa Domine is an Associate Professor of educational technology in one of the nation’s top teacher education programs at Montclair State University (New Jersey, USA) where she works shoulder to shoulder with teachers in a school-university partnership that spans across 30 school districts. Dr. Domine is also the Vice President of the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) and co-editor of the Journal for Media Literacy Education (JMLE). Her latest book Rethinking Technology in Schools explores the educational potential of technology as more than just technical proficiency but as an opportunity for cultural transformation through democratic practices. As founder and executive director of Project Literacy Among Youth (PLAY), Dr. Domine guides educators to educational renewal through media literacy education, technology planning, curriculum integration and social networking.
Steven Goodman
Steven Goodman is the founding executive director of the Educational Video Center (www.evc.org), an internationally acclaimed leader in youth media practiced in both school and community settings since 1984. Trained as a journalist at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he has taught in New York City alternative high schools, and media education courses for teachers and undergraduate students at NYU; University of London, Institute of Education; Ohio University/Ohio SchoolNet; and other universities. Author of Teaching Youth Media: A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video Production and Social Change (Teachers College Press), Goodman has spoken and written extensively on youth media, education reform, and civic engagement for numerous publications.
Eric Gordon
Eric Gordon is a researcher and game designer who investigates how games and social media can enhance civic learning and local engagement. He is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the director of the Engagement Game Lab at Emerson College, where he is an associate professor. He is the co-author (with Adriana de Souza e Silva) of the book Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World (2011) and the author of the Urban Spectator: American Concept-cities from Kodak to Google (2010).
His game Participatory Chinatown was designed to engage people in Boston’s Chinatown in the city¹s master planning process. It was named “best direct impact” game in 2011 by the organization Games for Change. More recently, his game Community PlanIt, which is a mission-based game platform for local community planning, has been played in Boston to inform policy in the Boston Public Schools and in Detroit to inform the city’s master plan. It will be expanded to Philadelphia and other cities in 2013.
Paul Mihailidis
Paul Mihailidis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing Communication at Emerson College in Boston, MA, and Director of the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change. Mihailidis’s research concerns the connections between media, education, and citizenship in the 21st Century. He has published widely on media literacy, global media, and digital citizenship. He is the editor of the forthcoming News Literacy: Global Perspectives for the Newsroom and Classroom (Peter Lang) and co-author of The Media Literacy Project (Pearson). His newest work is on a Media Literacy Learning Commons Model predicated on new participatory civic voices. Mihailidis sits on the board of directors for the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), and is reviews editor for the Journal of Media Literacy Education (JMLE). At Emerson, Mihailidis teaches Interactive Communication, Understanding Consumers, Social Media, and Media Literacy.