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Publications and Papers Related to Rethinking Media, Democracy, and Citizenship Research Project

Boler, Megan. (Ed.) Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (MIT Press 2008).
Download Introduction to Digital Media and Democracy by Megan Boler here.

Boler, Megan. “The Transmission of Political Critique after 9/11: ‘A New Form of Desperation’?.” M/C Journal 9.1 (2006). 03 May. 2006 view online

Boler, Megan. “The Daily Show, Crossfire, and the Will to Truth.” Scan Journal of Media Arts Culture. Vol. 3, no. 1 (f2006) http://scan.net.au/

Boler, Megan. “The Daily Show and Political Activism. Changing the World, One Laugh at a Time,” view online

Schmidt, Andrea and Megan Boler. “Will New Media Save Democracy?” view online

Conference Presentations

Burwell, Catherine. “Calling on the Colbert Nation: Fandom, POlitcs and Parody in an Age of Media Convergence.” Digital Dissent, User-Generated Content, and Web-Based Publics: Reconceptualizing Citizenship, Resistance, and Political Media. International Communication Association, Montreal, May 2008. fan-cultureburwellboler

Boler, M., Andrea Schmidt, and Catherine Burwell. Panel on Rethinking Media and Democracy Project. Tactics of Resistance Conference, University of Western Ontario, London, ON (October 2007)

Catherine Burwell, “Calling on the Colbert Nation”

Boler, M. and Stephen Turpin. “Ironic Citizenship, or Coping with Complicity in Spectacular Society,” New Network Theory International Conference, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Institute of Network Cultures, University of Amsterdam. (2007 June)

Boler and Turpin, Ironic Citizenship pdf

Boler, M.“Creating Communication: Media, Citizenship, and Youth in North America” International Communication Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco (2007 May)

Boler, M.“Digital Dissent and the Salvation of Satire,” New York State Communication Association (2006 October)

Boler, M. Invited Keynote, Canadian Association Information Studies Annual Meeting (2006 May)

Boler, M. Presidential Symposium Session, American Educational Research Association, San Francisco(2006 April)

Boler, M. Invited Keynote, “Mediated Publics and the Crises of Democracy,” Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society, Bergamo, Ohio,(2005, October)

Boler, M. Noted Scholar Lecture, “Rethinking Publics through The Daily Show,” University of British Columbia(2005 July)

Boler, M. “The Work of Critical Pedagogies in an Age of Digital Reproduction,” CSSE, Learneds Conference, York University, Toronto (2006 May)

Boler, M. “Digital Public Spaces,” American Studies Association, Washington DC (2005 November)

Boler, M. Panelist, “Culture Jamming,” Re-Activism Conference, Budapest University, Budapest Hungary (2005 October)

Schmidt, Andrea. “Politics for Consumption: How war bloggers feed the spectacle,” Digital Dissent, User-Generated Content, and Web-Based Publics:
Reconceptualizing Citizenship, Resistance, and Political Media. International Communication Association, Montreal, May 2008 politics-for-consumption pdf

OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Boler, M. “Hypes, Hopes, and Actualities: Representations of Bodies and Difference in Text-Based
Digital Communication,” New Media and Society (vol. 9, no .1, February 2007)

Zorn, D. and M.Boler. “Rethinking Emotions and Educational Leadership for Social Change,”
International Leadership in Education, (vol. 10, issue 2, 2007)

Pinto, L., M. Boler, and T. Norris. “Conceptions of Literacy in High-Stakes Testing
and its Press Coverage in Ontario,” Policy Futures in Education (vol. 5 no. 1, January 2007).

Boler, M. “Critical Media Literacy and War,” Special Issue on Media Literacy, Orbit Magazine,
May 2005.

Boler, M. “The Limits of Philosophy in an Epoch of Censure” Response to General Session,
Philosophy of Education Society 2004, ed. Chris Higgins (Champaign, Il: Philosophy of Education Society)

Boler, M. “Masculinity on Trial: Using Popular Culture to Rethink Gender Roles.” Men and
Masculinities.M. Kimmel, ed. SUNY (January 2005 v. 7 no. 3 261-269).

Zembylas, M. and M. Boler. “On the Spirit of Patriotism: Challenges of a ‘Pedagogy of
Discomfort,’ Teachers’ College Record, Special Online Issue on Education and September 11, Fall 2002

Boler, M. and K. Allen. “Whose Naming Whom? Using Independent Video to Teach About the
Politics of Representation,” Women’s Studies Quarterly Special Issue on Film (Spring/summer 2002, vol 30, nos 1 & 2, 255-270).

Boler, M. “The New Digital Cartesianism: Bodies and Spaces in Online Education,” Philosophy of
Education Society 2002 ed. Scott Fletcher (Champaign, Il: Philosophy of Education Society) (2003)