Institute for Research in Digital Learning (IRDL)
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The Institute for Research on Digital Learning (IRDL) has a broad mandate to engage in systematic inquiry, discussion, and information sharing related to the uses of technology in teaching and learning by encouraging the formation of links with faculty members across the university and with schools, government, and industry to provide collaborative, multidisciplinary approaches to research problems and issues. For more information see: https://irdl.info.yorku.ca/about/ .
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From Simulation to Imitation: Controllers, Corporeality, and Mimetic Play
(2014-09-16)Background. We contend that a conceptual conflation of simulation and imitation persists at the heart of claims for the power of game-based simulations for learning. Recent changes in controller-technologies ... -
Short Cuts and Extended Techniques: Rethinking relations between technology and educational theory
(Taylor and Francis, 2014-04-14)Building upon a recent call to renew actor-network theory (ANT) for educational research, this article reconsiders relations between technology and educational theory. Taking cues from actor-network theorists, this discussion ... -
Affordances of Equality: Ranciere, Emerging Media, and the New Amateur
(Taylor and Francis, 2015-11-25)This article extends a recent educational engagement with the work of Jacques Rancière by linking his meditations on 19th-century worker emancipation to present cultural contexts and media forms. Taking Nick Prior’s (2010) ... -
Transforming school culture through inquiry-driven learning and iPads
(Emerald Publishing, 2018-01-17)Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of a commissioned research study that analyzed a schooling initiative with the ambitious goal of transforming learning environments across the district by advancing ... -
Pathways to sustainable futures: A “production pedagogy” model for STEM education
(Futures, 2019-02-19)STEM education initiatives currently pervade the global landscape of educational reform.Unfortunately, the rush to adopt STEM reforms in North American schools and develop students for competitive 21st century knowledge ... -
Past tensions and future possibilities: ARCYP and children’s media studies
(Journal of Children and Media, 2016-01-18)The year 2007 marked the beginning. The same year JOCAM was launched, an interdisciplinary group of Canadian scholars formed a scholarly association to address the needs of researchers working with young people’s texts and ... -
Selling the Male Consumer the Playboy Way
(Popular Communication, 2014-08-06)Under the direction of Hugh Hefner, Playboy magazine’s early success was predicated upon the unique marketing strategies of forging the persona of an idealized, imaginary reader called the playboy, with particular lifestyles ... -
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Mythology of DWYL in the Neoliberal Marketplace of Academic Labour
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Separate Playgrounds: Surveying the Fields of Girls’ Media Studies and Boyhood Studies
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“Missed Opportunity”: The Oversight of Canadian Children’s Media
(Canadian Journal of Communication, 2016-02-16)Canadian communication studies have largely ignored Canadian children’s media as a field of study. The children’s cultural industries in Canada are rich and diverse. This article argues that these cultural industries need ... -
From Toddlers to Teens: The Colonization of Childhood the Disney Way
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Locating Tween Girls
(Girlhood Studies, 2018-03-01)We reflect on the media coverage of Amy “Dolly” Everett’s death by suicide to highlight the continued spectacularization of tweenhood as an idealized form of white feminine beauty tied to consumer culture, and one that ... -
Elementary School Language and Literacy Education for Civic Engagement: An Evolving Playbook for Postmodern Times
(Language and Literacy, 2017-08-03)This paper argues for the need to postmodernize literacy education for civic engagement in an emerging new world order where humans are globally-connected in an invisible digital dimension, yet physically dispersed in ... -
“Frappés, friends, and fun”: Affective labor and the cultural industry of girlhood
(Sage Journals, 2018-10)In the cultural industries of girlhood, tween girls are almost always shown to be having fun. This article focuses mainly on tween retailer Justice, its corporate communications materials, the images in its online retail ...
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