Friday, March 6, 2020 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM (ET)
108 O'Brian Hall
Graduate School of Education716-645-6640gsedean@buffalo.edu
Antero Garcia — assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University — presents “Analog Literacies and Digital Platforms: Addressing Hope, Fear and Healing in a Climate of Rising Nationalism” as part of the Graduate School of Education 2019–20 Dean’s Lecture Series.
Lecture: 2:30 to 4 p.m. Share your favorite takeaways — Tweet using #UBGSELecture.
Abstract: Particularly in the current U.S. political climate, youth civic lives are fraught with complicated emotions in classrooms with teachers fearful of engaging in rancorous political talk while also maintaining powerful opportunities for engagement in out-of-school contexts. Presenting findings from several studies, this talk explores the intersection of digital and analog literacies in classrooms, in tabletop gaming communities, and in out-of-school civic learning environments. Across these studies, this presentation offers a speculative analysis of differences of identity and expression, and manifests ideological commitments to equity, empathy, and collective struggle to ward off civic disintegration.