Do-It-Together

Signs? Tools? What do you see?

New Media Literacies do-it-together productions. Check out the latest NML projects. Various topics of interest that address racial, cultural, gender and identity politics. Onward with the conversation…

Mimi Ito

Mimi Ito, Research Scientist & Professor

Find out the latest on digital media, portable technologies, and online social networks both in Japan and in the U.S. For more information, visit Ito’s website/blog and calendar of related events.

Interested in independent media? USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy will hold a 24/7 Video Summit in February 2008! The promo plug-in video highlights the work of scholars and creators alike. It’s worth watching!

Tajai

Tajai of Souls of Mischief and Hieroglyphics on “Global New Media and Hip Hop.” A conversation about new media practices in everyday life, art, music, and entrepreneurship. Join us on November 7.

Check out Youth Radio’s interview with Tajai (audio available).

For more info on current projects, videos and more, visit Hieroglyphics’ website, myspace music, and digital store.

Read related article in SF Chronicle >>

Face to Face

Check out Rob Mikuriya’s interactive new media Face to Face: Stories from the Aftermath of Infamy. It tells of two world events – December 7, 1941 and September 11, 2001 – and connects multi-generational experiences. Other independently-produced, award-winning programs also available on ITVS.

Welcome!

A forum on New Media Literacies and Popular Culture

Ever wonder about what’s new in new media? Or why it’s called literacies and not just literacy?  Are literacies different from new literacies? From media literacies?  And what do they all have to do with popular culture?