Publications
pdf and online refereed publications here, or scroll below these reviews for links to available publications
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Reviews of Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times, ed. by Megan Boler (Cambridge: MIT Press 2008)
Table of Contents and PDF of Introduction by Megan Boler (pps. 1-51)
- Two reviews of Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times, November 2009, Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo
- Hamilton, James F. (2008) Review of Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times, edited by Megan Boler, in Social Movement Studies 3,319-322.
- Neural: Media- Art- Hactivism, online journal since 1993 http://www.neural.it/art/2008/11/edited_by_megan_boler_digital.phtml
- Michelle Stack, University of British Columbia, Canada, Paideusis, Volume 17 (2008), No. 2, pp. 99-102 Review of Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times by Megan Boler (Ed.),Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2008
- Feminist Review Connections: Monthly Online Reviews http://feministreview.blogspot.com/2008/10/connections-brittany-shoot-and-allyson.html
- Online Information Review, David Stuart, vol. 32. No. 5 pps. 689-90. October 2008.
- Mark Hayes, Media International Australia Boler.DigitalMediaandDemocracy.MediaInternationalAustralia.11.1.2009-2-1
- Michael A. Xenos, Information Communication and Society Boler.DigitalMediaandDemocracy.InformationCommunication&Society.12.19.2009-1-1
- Fenwick Robert McKelvey, Canadian Journal of Communication CJC_review_DigMediaDemoc-1
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Publications by Category
Web-accessible (2002 – Present)
- Related to “Rethinking Media, Democracy, and Citizenship” Project (since 2006)
- Essays and Chapters (since 2002)
- Web-based Projects (since 2003)
- News and Media Publications and Appearances (since 2004)
Complete List of Publications html (below) pdf (in full CV)
Related to Megan Boler’s Research Project “Rethinking Media, Democracy, and Citizenship”
Boler, M. Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times (MIT Press 2008). Download Introduction by Megan Boler. pdf
Moderator for Panel “Media Coverage and the U.S. Election Campaigns: Race, Gender, and Identity Politics in the 2008 Presidential Race” with the participation of Dr. Anna Everett, Dr. Todd Gitlin, Dr. Rick Salutin, Center for the Study of the United States 2008-2009 Lecture Series, Munk Center, University of Toronto, October 15, 2008.
http://digimed-jhi.pbwiki.com/Events
Boler, Megan. “The Transmission of Political Critique after 9/11: ‘A New Form of Desperation’?.” M/C Journal 9.1 (2006). 03 May, 2006. html
Boler, Megan. “The Daily Show, Crossfire, and the Will to Truth.” News and the Net: Convergences and Divergences, edited by Chris Atton & Graham Meikle, Scan Journal of Media Arts Culture, vol. 3, #1 (June 2006). html
Boler, Megan. “The Daily Show and Political Activism. Changing the World, One Laugh at a Time”. html
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). pdf
Schmidt, Andrea and Megan Boler. “Will New Media Save Democracy?” html
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. pdf
Burwell, Catherine. “Calling on the Colbert Nation: Fandom, Politcs and Parody in an Age of Media Convergence.” Presented at Tactics of Resistance Conference, University of Western Ontario, October 2007, and Digital Dissent, User-Generated Content, and Web-Based Publics: Reconceptualizing Citizenship, Resistance, and Political Media, International Communication Association, Montreal, May 2008. pdf. Revised version published in Megan Boler and Ted Gournelos, eds., Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication, Vol. 18, #2, September 2008. ms pdf
Boler, M. “Hypes, Hopes, and Actualities: Representations of Bodies and Difference in Text-Based Digital Communication,” New Media and Society (vol. 9, #1, February 2007) pdf
Zorn, D. and M.Boler. “Rethinking Emotions and Educational Leadership for Social Change,” International Leadership in Education (vol. 10, #2, 2007) pdf
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 #1, January 2007) pdf
Boler, M. “Critical Media Literacy and War,” Special Issue on Media Literacy, Orbit Magazine, May 2005.
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) pdf
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) pdf
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 pdf
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) pdf
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) pdf
Web-Based Teaching Guide to accompany The Corporation, a documentary directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, 2003, on the TVOntario website (OISE-based project with Laura Pinto and Trevor Norris)
http://www.tvo.org/thecorporation/teachers.html
Official Study Guide for The Corporation Zeitgeist films, New York, NY
http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=corporation&mode=educational
Critical Media Literacy in Times of War
http://www.tandl.vt.edu/Foundations/mediaproject/
Diversity Resources Center Searchable Database Education and Social Justice
http://edpsychserver.ed.vt.edu/diversity/index.cfm
On “Obamamania” Panel, CBC Radio Canada International, The Link Part 2, Jan. 23, 2009. http://www.rciviva.ca/rci/en/emissions/1952.shtml
In “The art of Obama” by Dave McGinn, National Post, January 16, 2009
http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=1185377
In “The Presidential Inauguration” coverage, Global TV News Hour, January 16, 2009
http://www.globaltv.com/globaltv/ontario/video/index.html
In “INAUGURATION HYPE: Buying into Obama” by Andrea Gordon, Toronto Star, Jan 13, 2009
http://www.thestar.com/living/Shopping/article/569834
News and Media Publications
“Will New Media Save Democracy?”, February 22, 2007
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0222-29.htm
“Changing the World, One Laugh at a Time: The Daily Show and Political Activism”
http://www.counterpunch.org/boler02202007.html February 20, 2007
“Borat Lowers Bar of Political Satire,” Vancouver Sun, November 16, 2006, B1
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=b7e1a6a6-e44d-4d3d-8fd2-e09b6be00489
“NY Times Apology feels Hollow,” Toronto Star, May 31, 2004, p. A16
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0531-06.htm
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COMPLETE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Books
(ed.) Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times. Boston: MIT Press, 2008.
(ed.) Democratic Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silence. New York: Peter Lang, March 2004.
Feeling Power: Emotions and Education (New York: Routledge, 1999) (Critics’ Choice Award, American Educational Studies Association 2000)
Editorial Positions
Guest Editor with Ted Gournelos, “Irony and Politics: User-Producers, Parody, and Digital Publics,” Electronic Journal of Communication, October 2008, vol. 18, no. 24 themed issues 2, 3, and 4
http://www.cios.org/www/ejcmain.htm
Co-Editor (with Dr. Michelle Stack, University of British Columbia), Policy Futures in Education, Special Journal Issue on Media Studies, September 2005. (vol. 5 #1, January 2007).
http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/
Videos
Womensstudies@vt.edu, Directed by Megan Boler and Amber Vellenga (2000)
Web-Based Projects
Web-Based Teaching Guide to accompany The Corporation, a documentary directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, 2003, on the TVOntario website (OISE-based project with Laura Pinto and Trevor Norris)
http://www.tvo.org/thecorporation/teachers.html
Official Study Guide for The Corporation Zeitgeist films, New York, NY
http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=corporation&mode=educational
Critical Media Literacy in Times of War
http://www.tandl.vt.edu/Foundations/mediaproject/
Diversity Resources Center Searchable Database Education and Social Justice
http://edpsychserver.ed.vt.edu/diversity/index.cfm
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
Burwell, Catherine and M. Boler. (2008) “Calling on the Colbert Nation: Fandom, Politics and Parody in an Age of Media Convergence,” Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication edited by Megan Boler and Ted Gournelos, vol. 18, #2, September 2008.
Boler, M. “Hypes, Hopes, and Actualities: Representations of Bodies and Difference in Text-Based Digital Communication,” New Media and Society, vol. 9, #1, February 2007.
Zorn, D. and M.Boler. “Rethinking Emotions and Educational Leadership for Social Change,” International Leadership in Education, vol. 10, #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 #1, January 2007.
Boler, Megan. “The Daily Show, Crossfire, and the Will to Truth.” Scan Journal of Media Arts Culture, vol. 3, #1, summer 2006.
Boler, Megan. “The Transmission of Political Critique after 9/11: “A New Form of Desperation”?. ” M/C Journal 9.1, 03 May, 2006.
Boler, M. “Critical Media Literacy and War,” Special Issue on Media Literacy, Orbit Magazine, May 2005.
Boler, M. “Masculinity on Trial: Undressing homophobia in the Bible belt.” Men and Masculinities. M. Kimmel, ed. SUNY, January 2005, vol. 7, #3, 261-269.
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.
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, ##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.
Boler, M., L. T. Smith, G. Smith, M. Kempton, A. Ormond, H. Chueh and R. Waetford “‘Do you guys hate Aucklanders too?’Youth: voicing difference from the rural heartland,” Journal of Rural Studies, New Zealand, April 2002 (available online since Nov 2001), vol. 18, #2, 169-178. (UTOR access required)
Boler, M. “An Epoch of Difference: Hearing Voices in the Nineties,” (Decade Review of 1990-99 for Special 50th Anniversary Issue), Educational Theory, 2000, vol. 50, #3, 357-381.
Boler, M. “All Speech is Not Free: Towards an Affirmative Action Pedagogy,” Philosophy of Education Society 2000, ed. Lynda Stone. Champaign, Il: Philosophy of Education Society, 2001.
Boler, M. “Emotional Quotient: the Taming of the Alien.” Discourse: Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, vol. 21, #2, 84-114.
Boler, M. “Towards a Politics of Emotion: Bridging the Chasm Between Theory and Practice,” American Philosophy Association Newsletter, 1998, vol. 98, #1, 49-54.
Boler, M. “Taming the Labile Other,” Philosophy of Education Society 1997, ed. Susan Laird. Champaign, Il: Philosophy of Education Society, 1997, 258-270.
Boler, M. “Disciplined Emotions: Philosophies of Educated Feelings,” Educational Theory, 1997,vol. 47, #3, 203-227.
Boler, M. “The Risks of Empathy: Interrogating Multiculturalism’s Gaze,” Cultural Studies, 1997, vol. 11, #2, 253-273.
Boler, M. “License to Feel: Teaching in the Context of War,” Articulating the Global and Local, eds. Douglas Kellner and Ann Cvetkovich, Politics and Culture Series, Westview Press, 1996.
Boler, M. “Situated and Imagined Selves,” Review Essay of Bogdan’s Re-educating the Imaginationand Benhabib’s Situating the Self,” Hypatia, 1995, vol. 10, #4, 130-143.
Boler, M. “License to Feel: Teaching in the Context of War,” Philosophy of Education Society 1995, ed. Alven Neiman. Champaign, Il: Philosophy of Education Society, 1995.
Boler, M. “Teaching for Diversity,” Concerns, Journal of the Women’s Caucus of the Modern Language Association, 1994, vol. 34, #3, 27-32.
Boler, M. “The Risks of Empathy: Interrogating Multiculturalism’s Gaze,” Philosophy of Education Society 1994, ed. Michael Katz, Champaign, Il: Philosophy of Education Society, 1994.
Refereed Literary Publications
“The Third Round,” in The Threepenny Review, ed.Wendy Lesser; Berkeley, CA (winter l987)
“Summer 1996,” New Zealand Poetry No. 16 (peer reviewed, bi-annual journal) (1998)
“Oceanview Budget Lodge,” Hecate: A Woman’s Interdisciplinary Journal XXIV/I (Australian peer-reviewed quarterly journal) (1998)
“StrawFire,” 13th Moon, Suny Press, vol. 18, fall issue (2002)
Non-Refereed Journal Articles And Book Chapters
Boler, M. “Making Claims: The Responsibilities of Qualitative Researcher,” in Methodological Dilemmas of Qualitative Research, ed. Kathleen Gallagher, (forthcoming Routledge 2008).
Boler, M. “Mediated Publics and the Crises of Democracy.” Philosophical Studies in Education, eds. Justen Infinito and Cris Mayo, Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education, vol. 37 (2007).
Dwight, J., Boler, M. and Sears, P. “Reconstructing the fables: Women on the educational cyberfrontier.” International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments, eds. Weiss, Nolan, and Trifonas, Kluwer Academic Publishers (March 2006)
Boler, M. “Media Literacy Defined,” W. Hare and J. P. Portelli (Eds.), Key Questions in Education. Halifax, NS: Edphil Books (2005)
Boler, M. “Critical Hope.” In Teaching, Loving, Learning. Jim Garrison and Dan Liston, eds. Rowan and Littlefield (2003)
Boler, M. and M. Zembylas. 2003. “Discomforting Truths: The Emotional Terrain of Understanding Difference.” In Peter Trifonas, ed. Pedagogies of Difference. NY: Routledge
Boler, M. “’I Love this Rock:’ Passionate Science and the Myth of Objectivity,” in D. Tippins, T. Koballa, and B. Payne (eds). Learning from Cases: Unraveling the Complexities of Elementary Science Teaching. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon Publishing, 2002.
Boler, M. “Posing Feminist Questions to Freire,” in Paolo Freire and Education: Voices from New Zealand, ed. Peter Roberts. Auckland: Dunmore Press, 1999.
Boler, M. “Disciplined Absences: Cultural Studies and the Missing Discourse of a Feminist Politics of Emotion,” in After the Disciplines: the Emergence of Cultural Studies, ed. Michael Peters, NY: Bergin and Garvey Press, 1999.
Mary Leach and Megan Boler, “Gilles Deleuze: Practicing Education Through Flight and Gossip,” in Naming the Multiple ed. Michael Peters. NY: Bergin and Garvey Press, 1998.
News and Media Publications
“Will New Media Save Democracy?”, February 22, 2007
http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0222-29.htm
“Changing the World, One Laugh at a Time: The Daily Show and Political Activism”
http://www.counterpunch.org/boler02202007.html February 20, 2007
“Borat Lowers Bar of Political Satire,” Vancouver Sun, November 16, 2006, B1
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=b7e1a6a6-e44d-4d3d-8fd2-e09b6be00489
“NY Times Apology feels Hollow,” Toronto Star, May 31, 2004, p. A16
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0531-06.htm
Lectures, Panels, Conferences
Invited Keynote, Power Lines: Women Transform the Grid, Biannual Summit, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, February 2009
Invited Keynote, The Moral of the Story: Art, Culture, Media and Politics, Parkland Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton Canada, November 2008
Invited Keynote, Colloquium on Community Self and Identity, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, November, 2008
Moderator for Panel “Media Coverage and the U.S. Election Campaigns: Race, Gender, and Identity Politics in the 2008 Presidential Race” with the participation of Dr. Anna Everett, Dr. Todd Gitlin, Dr. Rick Salutin, Center for the Study of the United States 2008-2009 Lecture Series, Munk Center, University of Toronto, October 15, 2008.
Invited Keynote Web 2.0 Learning Colloquium, Panel with Dr. Darin Barney and Dr. Douglas Kellner, University of British Columbia, October 2008
Invited Keynote, Central Michigan University, Conference of Cyberdemocracy and Citizenship, February 2008
Invited Panelist, “No End in Sight,” Reel Politiks Film Series, Center for Study of United States, February 2008
Invited Keynote, Community and Social Activism Conference, Central Michigan University, February 2008
with Andrea Schmidt and Catherine Burwell. Panel on “Rethinking Media and Democracy” Project. Tactics of Resistance Conference, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, October 2007
Invited Keynote. “Diversity Across the Curricula : Negotiating Difference and Discomfort,” University of Toronto Nursing School Faculty, October 2007
Invited Keynote, Ethics and New Media, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Arizona State University, April 2007
Roundtable on “Information Politics and Life” in the Biopolitics + Technoscience series, University of Toronto [with Dr. Brian Cantwell-Smith, Dr. Andrew Clement, and Dr. Ron Deibert], November 2006
“Satire and Dissent: The Daily Show, Blogs and Digital Multimedia,” Salon Voltaire public series, Toronto Gardiner Museum, November 2006 http://www.salon-voltaire.com
Invited Panelist, “Digital News Production and Alternative Media,” Journalists for Human Rights, Annual Convention, August 2006
Invited Keynote, Canadian Association of Information Studies Annual Meeting, May 2006
Invited Keynote, Canadian Association Information Studies Annual Meeting, May 2006.
Presidential Symposium Session, American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April 2006.
Invited Keynote, “Mediated Publics and the Crises of Democracy,” Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society, Bergamo, Ohio, October, 2005.
Noted Scholar Lecture, “Rethinking Publics through The Daily Show,” University of British Columbia, July 2005.
Panelist in “Culture Jamming,” Re-Activism Conference, Budapest University, Budapest Hungary, October 2005.
THE ENTRIES BELOW TO BE REORGANISED:
Invited Lectures/Presentations
(2009 February) Invited Keynote, Power Lines: Women Transform the Grid, Biannual Summit, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
(2008 November) Invited Keynote, The Moral of the Story: Art, Culture, Media and Politics Parkland Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
(2008 November) Invited Keynote, Colloquium on Community Self and Identity, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
(2008 October) Invited Keynote Web 2.0 Learning Colloquium, Panel with Dr. Darin Barney and Dr. Douglas Kellner, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
(2008 February) Invited Keynote, Central Michigan University, Conference of Cyberdemocracy and Citizenship
(2008 February) Invited Panelist, “No End in Sight,” Reel Politiks Film Series, Center for Study of United States
(2008 February) Invited Keynote, Community and Social Activism Conference, Central Michigan University
(2007-08) Digilit Seminar Series, York University, Toronto
(2007 October) Invited Keynote. “Diversity Across the Curricula : Negotiating Difference and Discomfort,” University of Toronto, Nursing School Faculty
(2007 April) Invited Keynote, Ethics and New Media, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Arizona State University
(2006, November) Roundtable on “Information Politics and Life” in the Biopolitics + Technoscience series, University of Toronto [with Dr. Brian Cantwell-Smith, Dr. Andrew Clement, and Dr. Ron Deibert]
(2006, November) “Satire and Dissent: The Daily Show, Blogs and Digital Multimedia,” Salon Voltaire public series, Toronto Gardiner Museum http://www.salon-voltaire.com/
(2006, August) Invited Panelist, “Digital News Production and Alternative Media,” Journalists for Human Rights, Annual Convention
(2006 May) “Using Media to Engage Ethical Inquiry,” Ontario Philosophy Teachers Association
(2006 May) Invited Keynote, Canadian Association of Information Studies Annual Meeting
(2006 April) Presidential Symposium Session, American Educational Research Association, San Francisco
(2005 November) “From terrorism to Katrina: representations of race in U.S. media,” Frostburg State University, Maryland
(2005, October) Invited Keynote, “Mediated Publics and the Crises of Democracy,” Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society, Bergamo, Ohio
(2005 July) Noted Scholar Lecture, “Rethinking Publics through The Daily Show,” University of British Columbia
(2005 March) Invited Panelist, “Symposium on the Politics of Broadcast and Print News,” National Film Board of Canada (with Jim Giles, Editor, Toronto Star; Tony Burman, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; John Hirst, CTV Television News)
(2005 April) Invited Symposium Panelist, American Educational Research Association Division B, Rethinking Media in Repressive Times: Caring About Free Speech
(2005 March) Invited Keynote, Mediated Diversity: Digital Storytelling and Difference in the Bandwidth, Mid-Atlantic Conference on the Scholarship of Diversity, Roanoke, Virginia
(2004 December) Invited Talk, New Public Spheres and Democracy, Evergreen State University, Olympia, WA
(2004 December) Invited Presentation, Media Literacy and Discomfort in the Digital Age, University of Washington-Bothell, Seattle, WA
(2004 December) Invited Lunch Seminar/Discussion of Research Practices in New Media, Digital Media Working Group, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
(2004 December) Invited Talk, Democracy or ‘A New Form of Desperation’? Satire in Political Multimedia, on Dec. 3 at the University of Washington. Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
(2004 November) Invited Talk, Multimedia Political Satire and the Public Sphere, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
(2004, November) Invited Panelist, Analyses of the U.S. Presidential Election, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto (with panelists Ted Lowi, Cornell University and Alan Freeman, Globe and Mail)
(2004, November) Invited Talk, Shock and Awe: Media and Responsibility, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Arizona State University
(2004, October) Invited Response to Andrew Feenberg, “Critical Theory of Technology,” Textologies: A Workshop on Technologies, Ethics, and Culture, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario, October 14-16, 2004.
(2004, July) Digital Media Literacy and Representations of War, Digital Generations Conference, Center for the Study of Children, Youth, and Media, University of London
(2004, April) Invited Talk, Educational Technology Seminar Series, Hypes, Hopes, and Actualities of Digital Technologies and Education, Ed Commons, OISE/UT
(2004 March) Invited Guest presentation to Graduate Seminar Education Seminar In Curriculum Theory, University of British Columbia (teleconference)
(2004 March) Invited Guest presentation to Graduate Seminar, Knowledge Media Design Institute, Dr. Jason Nolan, University of Toronto
(2004, March) Invited Respondent to General Session, Philosophy of Education Society Annual Meeting, “The Limits of Philosophy in an Epoch of Censure”
(2004, March) Invited Talk, The Body in Cyberculture, Knowledge Media Design Institute’s Seminar Series: Building Relationships Across the Institute, University of Toronto
(2004 January) Invited Presentation, OISE History of Education Course, Dr. Ruth Sandwell, Presentation on Media Literacy in War
(2003, November) Invited Participant, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Arizona State University, “Whose Children: Education, Ethics, and Collective Responsibility” (one of nine scholars invited to present essays for inclusion of book, and meet to discuss and plan forthcoming conference)
(2003 November) Invited Keynote, Australasian Philosophy of Education Conference, New Zealand (declined to attend)
(2003, October) Invited Discussant, International Telemedia Conference on Media Education, all day program hosted at Chum City Studios, Toronto, Ontario
(2003, October) Invited panelist, “Life After the Dissertation,” Theory and Policy Studies Conference for Graduate Students, OISE/University of Toronto
(2003 September) Invited Guest Presentation, Discourse and Semiotics, Course Dr. Maureen Ford
(2003 May) Media Coverage of the U.S. War on Afghanistan, International Students Association, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA
(2003 February) Bodies in the Cyberimaginary, American Studies Program, University of California Davis
(2003, February) Invited Keynote, From Silence to Solidarities: Inclusive Spaces for Social Justice and Education, Center for Teaching Enhancement, University of South Florida
(2003, March) Rethinking Histories through Web-Based Media, History Department Seminar Series, Virginia Tech
(2002 December) Thinking Beyond Headlines: Critical Perspectives in American Media, Digitales 2002 Conference of Women and Technology, Brussels, Belgium
(2002 October) Critical Media Literacy in Times of War, Virginia Tech Presidential Research Showcase, Washington D.C.http://www.tandl.vt.edu/Foundations/mediaproject/
(2002 April) Theorizing the Body in Online Education, OISE/University of Toronto
(2002, March) The New Digital Cartesianism: Bodies and Difference in Online Education, Syracuse University, New York
(2002, March) Is Cyberspace a Place? Invited Presentation to Geography Students Association, Virginia Tech
(2002, March) Integrating Diversity into Math Education, Panel Presentation to Math Graduate Students Seminar, Virginia Tech
(2001, December) Is Critical Thinking Possible After September 11? A Media Diary, Women’s Studies Invited Faculty Speakers Series, Virginia Tech
(2001, October) The New Digital Cartesianism, Science and Technology Studies Colloquium Series, Virginia Tech
(2001, April ) Lost in Space: Exploring Bodies and Difference in Digital Culture, Teachers’ College, Columbia University, New York
(2001, February) Bodies Online: A Feminist Exploration of Digital Cartesianism, Virginia Tech Philosophy Club
(2000, May) Bearing Witness and Critical Hope, Invited Plenary, Learning Love Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
(1999, October) Pedagogies of Discomfort: Alternatives to ‘Tolerance,’ Invited Plenary, Conference on Freedom of Expression Vs. Freedom from Hostility, Montclair State University
(1999, July) Slamming Towards the Future: Bringing Strategies of Hope into Education, Marsden Seminar Series, International Institute for Indigenous and Maori Studies, University of Auckland
(1999, April) Introduction to Public Lecture by Maxine Greene, Maxine Greene: Visionary Before Her Time, College of Human Resources and Education, Virginia Tech
(1999 March) Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will: Teaching for Hope, Philosophy of Education and the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies Conference, Baton Rouge, LA
(1998 March) Feminist Politics of Emotion, Women’s Month Lecture Series, March 1998 Women’s Studies, Virginia Tech
(1997, July) Emotional Literacy Curricula, Waikato University Education Seminar Series, Hamilton, New Zealand
(1996, September) Taming the Labile Other: Popular and Academic Discourses of Emotion, Winter Seminar Series on Disciplinarity: the Emergence of Cultural Studies, University of Auckland
(1997, July) Emotional Literacy Curricula, Waikato University Education Seminar Series, Hamilton, New Zealand.
(1996, September) Popular and Academic Discourses of Emotion, Winter Seminar Series on Disciplinarity: the Emergence of Cultural Studies, University of Auckland
(1994, August) (Un)Civil Wars: Art, Criticism, and Theory, San Francisco Art Institute Art Writing Conference
(1994, April) Reading Roseanne as Pop Culture Icon, Mills College, Invited Speakers Series, Women’s Studies Program.
(1993, May) Future of Academic Work in Feminist Studies, Women’s Studies Feminist Research Association, University of California, Santa Cruz.
(1993, April) Medusa’s Daughters and Multiculturalism, California Association of Philosophers of Education, Stanford University
(1992, September) Speaking and Silences: Dynamic Discussions, University of California, Santa Cruz, Conference on Teaching Assistant Training
(1991, October) Words and Weeds: Palabras Como Quelites, reading at University of California, Santa Cruz, Women’s Center
Refereed Professional Papers/Presentations
(2007 June) “The Politics of ‘Truthiness,’” New Network Theory International Conference, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Institute of Network Cultures, University of Amsterdam.
(2007 May) “Creating Communication: Media, Citizenship, and Youth in North America” International Communication Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco
(2006 October) “Digital Dissent and the Salvation of Satire,” New York State Communication Association
(2006 May) “The Work of Critical Pedagogies in an Age of Digital Reproduction,” Canadian Symposium Studies in Education, York University
(2006 April) Presidential Symposium Session, American Educational Research Association, San Francisco
(2005 November) “Undisciplined Publics,” American Studies Association, Washington DC
(2005 November) “Digital Public Spaces,” American Studies Association, Washington DC
(2005 October) Panelist, “Culture Jamming,” Re-Activism Conference, Budapest University, Budapest Hungary
(2005, April) “Teaching Critical Approaches to Media and War,” Symposium Panel, American Educational Research Association, Philosophy of Education SIG, Montreal Canada
(2005, April) “Illusions of Free Speech in Higher Education,” Symposium Panel, American Educational Research Association, Philosophy of Education SIG, Montreal Canada
(2004, August) “Visual Satire in Times of War,” International Visual Sociology Association, San Francisco Art Institute
(2004, June) “The Politics of Media Literacy,” Crossroads International Cultural Studies Association Conference, University of Illinois Urbana
(2004, June) “In Our Wildest Dreams: Bodies in Cyberculture,” Crossroads International Cultural Studies Association Conference, University of Illinois Urbana
(2004, February) “Shock and Awe: Media Literacy and Discomfort in a Digital Age,” National Council of Teachers of English, Berkeley, California
(2003 October) Panel Participant, “Professional Issues for Queer Faculty,” American Studies Association, Hartford CT
(2003 June) ‘America Strikes Back?’Critical Media Literacy in Times of War,,” Megan Boler, and Brent Jesiek National Media Education Conference 2003 Literacy and Liberty: Rights, Roles and Responsibilities in a Media Age, Baltimore, Maryland
(2003 June) “Backlash against Academic Freedom,”
(June 13) America Strikes Back? Critical Media Literacy in Times of War
(June 15) International Conference On Teacher Education And Social Justice, San Francisco
(2003 March) “Gender in Digital Media,” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Blacksburg, VA
(2003 March) Discussant, Panel on Women in Science and Technology, Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, Blacksburg, VA
(2002 October) Is a Critical Digital Pedagogy Possible? American Educational Studies Association, Pittsburgh PA
(2002, July) Bodies Online: Difference in Digital Space, Technotopias International Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Scotland
(2002, May) Creating Space for the Imagination: Youth WritingTheir Lives in the Inner City, Designing Modern Childhood Conference, University of California, Berkeley
(2002, April) The New Digital Cartesianism: Bodies and Spaces in Online Education. Philosophy of Education Society, Vancouver
(2002, April) Teaching for Hope: Critical Inquiry and Mass Media, American Educational Research Association, New Orleans
(2002, April) Democracy and Free Speech in Teaching Humanities, American Educational Research Association, New Orleans
(2001, November) Is There a Female Gaze in Cyberspace? Barnard Feminist Art History Conference, New York
(2001, April) The Creation of ‘womensstudies@vt.edu’: Women’s Quest to Meet Their Online Teacher In the Flesh (Documentary Film and Discussion), Cyberculture Working Group Conference of 2001. University of Maryland, College Park
(2001, April) Love OnLine: The Eros of Virtual Education, Symposium Presentation, American Educational Research Association, Seattle.WA
(2001, April) Real and Virtual Gendered Identities in Educational Landscapes, Symposium Presentation, American Educational Research Association, Seattle,WA
(2001, April) Taking Young People Seriously: Young People’s Accounts of Their Lives, Discussant, American Educational Research Association, Seattle, WA
(2001, March) The Challenge of Interpreting Silence in Public Spaces, Philosophy of Education Society, Chicago, IL
(2000, April) Undressing Masculinity in Popular Culture, Symposium, American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA
(2000, April) Unfeeling Knowledge, Discussant, American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA April 24, 2000
(2000, March) All Speech is Not Free: Towards an Affirmative Action Pedagogy, Philosophy of Education Society, Toronto, Ontario March 30 2000
(1999, March) Feeling Power: Emotions and Education, Book Symposium, Philosophy of Education Society, New Orleans
(1999, January) A Pedagogy of Discomfort, Far West Philosophy of Education Society, University of Hawaii
(1997, July) Capitalizing on Emotion, Philosophy of Education Society of Australia, Sydney
(1997, April) Taming the Labile Other, Philosophy of Education Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver
(1996, December) Affecting Assemblages: Towards a Feminist Theory of Emotion, Deleuze: A Symposium, The University of Western Australia, Perth
(1996, August) Taming the Alien: Emotional Quotient, Narrative and Metaphor Across the Disciplines, International Conference of Comparative Literature, University of Auckland
(1995, April) License to Feel: Teaching in the Context of War, Philosophy of Education Society, San Francisco.
(1994, November) Towards New Pedagogies: Anna Deveare Smith on Crown Heights, and Ethical Quandries, American Educational Studies Association, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
(1994, March) The Risks of Empathy: Interrogating Multiculturalism’s Gaze, Philosophy of Education Society, Charlotte, North Carolina
(1991, May) The Climate for Multicultural and Feminist Pedagogies, Multicultural and Feminist Pedagogies, University of California, Santa Cruz
(1990, October) Critical Thinking and Empowerment, panel moderator, Conference on Power, Pedagogy, and Politics, University of New Hampshire
(1990, June) Taking the Subject Seriously: Affect in the Classroom, National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Akron, Ohio.
(1988, February) Discounted Knowledges and Institutionalized Reason, Graduate Studies Conference, Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Other Papers/Presentations
Book Panel, Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silence, Philosophy of Education Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, March 2004
Panel participant, “Discourse and Practice,” Theory and Policy Studies Faculty Conference, January 2004
Philosophy and Educational Technology: Forging A New Relationship, Presentation and Discussion, Philosophy of Education Annual Conference, Chicago, IL March 2001
Womensstudies@vt.edu, Premiere Screening at Virginia Tech, February, 2001
Womensstudies@vt.edu, Learning 2000 Conference, Roanoke, VA, September 2000
Feeling Power: Emotions and Education, Invited Presentation, Mills College, February 2000
Teaching About Gender and Diversity, Graduate Teaching Assistant Training Seminar, October 1999
Invited Film Series Discussant, Black Student Alliance Black History Month, February 1999
Invited Presentation, Reading the Media Critically, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Auckland, New Zealand, March 1997
Invited Presentation, Feminist Politics of Emotion, Feminist Perspectives in Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand (April 1997)
Qualitative Research Methods, Seminar on Mass Communications, October 6 1997, Auckland Institute of Technology.
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