Alexandra Juhasz, professor of media studies at Pitzer College, lectures on “Social Media Pedagogy: Feminist Teaching Online and Off” at noon on Sept. 25 in the Hampton Room of Malott Commons, 345 E. 9th St., at Scripps College. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Juhasz shares lessons learned from her free, online video-book, “Learning From YouTube” (MIT Press: 2011), as well as from her current project, FemTechNet, an international network of scholars and artists who work with technology in a variety of fields, including media and visual studies, art and women’s, queer and ethnic studies. In her lecture, Juhasz considers how we can use social media to promote feminist ideals, rather than trivialize it for mainly entertainment purposes.
Juhasz received her doctorate degree in cinema studies from New York University. Her first book, “AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video” (Duke University Press: 1996), examines how low-end video production can ignite people to politically mobilize around an issue or cause.
This lecture, co-sponsored by the Malott Commons Tuesday Noon Academy lecture series, is part of the Scripps College Humanities Institute’s fall lecture series, “Social Media/Social Change: Negotiating Access, Control, and Unrest in the Information Age.” Throughout the fall semester, distinguished scholars and experts explore, both at a local and a global level, the big-picture implications and the practical realities surrounding social networking and online collaborations. For more information about the lecture series, please call (909) 621-8237 or visit scripps-staging.skybox0.com/hi.