Refereed Conferences
Invited Talks
Conferences/Symposia Convened

Refereed Conferences

2012

• Nov 2012   Paper Presentation – Community youth media production and the public realm: Durable public space and media education in the city. Youth Digital Media Ecologies Research Forum, Vancouver, BC.
• July 2012   Paper Co-Presentation. Sociotechnical transformation between paradigms: Togetherness in the liminal spaces of Korea’s Information Society (with Dr. Florence Chee). Annual Meeting of the International Association of Media and Communication Researchers (Durban, South Africa).
• May 2012   Paper Co-Presentation. Cultural Scenes: Case Studies in the Social Analysis of Media-Oriented Practices of Youth (with Dr. Benjamin Woo and Jamie Rennie). Association for Research in Cultures of Young People, Congress 2012, Waterloo, ON.
• May 2012   Paper Co-Presentation. Media Production and Urban Youth Media Production Ecologies in Canada (with Dr. Giuliana Cucinelli). Annual Meeting of the Canadian Communication Association, Congress 2012, Waterloo, ON.
• May 2012   Paper Co-Presentation. Outside Bedroom culture and Beyond Bowling Alone: Gaming Spaces and the Crossroads of Culture in Korea (with Dr. Florence Chee). Annual Meeting of the Canadian Game Studies Association, Congress 2012, Waterloo, ON.

2011

• October 2011   Paper Presentation and Symposium Coordinator – Scenes and Urban Youth Media Production Ecologies in Canada. Children’s Material Culture – Research Forum of the Association for Research in Cultures of Young People.
• July 2011  Paper Presentation – Neoliberalism, Creative Cities, and Urban Youth Media Production Ecologies in Canada. Annual Meeting of the Media Education Research Section, International Association of Media and Communication Researchers Conference (Istanbul, Turkey)

• May 2011  Paper Presentation – Media Literacies, Learning and the Digital Code. New Literacies Workshop, (UBC, Centre for Digital Literacy).
• May 2011  Paper Presentation – Youth Citizenship Discourses and the Problem of the Stranger. Annual Meetings of the Canadian Communication Association (Fredericton, New Brunswick)
• January 2011  Paper Presentation – Strangers and the Representation of Youth Cultures in Canada (Children’s Studies Department and the Association for Research in Cultures of Young People, York University)

2010

• October 2010   Paper Presentation – The Paradox of Digital Literacies. Harvey Graf and the Fate of Literacy: A Reappraisal. (Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser University).
• Video Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4vLdDF5OHA
• June 2010   Paper Presentation – Youth, citizenship and the problem of the stranger. Beyond Citizenship – Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging (Birbeck College, University of London).
• May 2010   Paper Presentation and Roundtable Coordinator – Round Table Forum - Participatory Ontologies and Youth Cultures. Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Cultures of Young People – ACCUTE (Montreal, PQ).
• March 2010   Paper Presentation – Producing Effective Youth Media/Communication Projects. Special Research Section at the Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (Berkeley, CA).

2009

• July 2009   Paper presentation – Haunting the Narcissus-Narcosis: Media Education, Critical Agency, and the Social Life of Digital Technologies. Annual Meeting of the Journalism and Media Education Research Section, International Association of Media and Communication Researchers Conference (Mexico City, Mexico).
• May 2009   Paper presentation – Immersive Advertising, Mash-ups and Children’s Participatory Culture. Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Cultures of Young People, Congress 2009, Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario).
• April 2009   Paper presentation – Hannah Arendt and the Paradox of Youth Media Participation. Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (Kansas City, MO).
• March 2009   Paper presentation – Immersive Advertising and the Complexity of Children’s Participatory Culture. Screen Culture: Intermediality and Interculturality Conference (Vancouver, BC).

2008

• July 2008   Paper presentation – ‘On behalf of a shared world’: Youth media, mentorship and democratic habituation. Annual Meeting of the Participatory Communication Group at the International Association of Media and Communication Researchers (Stockholm, Sweden).
• May 2008   Paper presentation – Arendtian Politics in a Culture of Youth Media Participation. Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education. (Vancouver, BC)
• March 2008   Paper presentation – Media, Culture and Curriculum SIG, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.  Digital Media and Agonistic Life: Hannah Arendt and Youth Media Production

2007

• October 2007   Paper presentation – Digital Media and Agonistic Life: Using Arendt to Read Youth Media Production. Annual Meeting of Canadian Association of Cultural Studies.

2006

• October 2006   Paper presentation – Pedagogy, Moral Reasoning and Students’ Historical Understanding: Some Considerations. Canada West to East: Teaching History in a Time of Change. (Montreal, PQ)
• May 2006   Paper presentation – Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education.  The pedagogical relationship between moral reasoning and historical understanding: High school students read 1916 in 2006. (Toronto, ON)
• April 2006  Paper presentation – ‘Get the camera out of the high school’: The public qualities of youth media production. Media, Culture and Curriculum SIG, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, (San Francisco, CA.)
• April 2006   Paper presentation – ‘The way of the future’: Probing the aviator for historical understanding. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, (San Francisco, CA)
• April 2006   Paper presentation – Canadian students think about past and present. (with Peter Sexias and Carla Peck) Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, (San Francisco, CA)

2005 and earlier

• October 2005   Paper presentation – Producing a media literate community: The summer visions film institute, 2000-2005. International Conference on Imagination and Education, (Vancouver, BC)
• May 2005   Paper presentation – Media pedagogy and curriculum practice. Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education. (Montreal, PQ).
• April 2005   Paper presentation – Productive tensions in the protection/preparation debate: Learning from media. Media, Culture and Curriculum SIG, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, (Montreal, PQ)
• April 2005   Paper presentation – A new critical terrain: A research proposal for media education in the classroom. Curriculum Studies Section, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, (Montreal, PQ)
• April 2005   Paper presentation – Agency in Students’ Understanding of Canadian History (with Peter Sexias and Carla Peck) History Teaching Section SIG, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, (Montreal, PQ)
• November 2004   Paper presentation – Conceiving agency in Canadian history: Youth and the development of historical understanding. (with Carla Peck) Annual Meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies, (Montreal, PQ)
• May 2004   Paper presentation – Historicizing deconstruction in a media literate age. Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education, (Winnipeg, MB)
• April 1996   Paper presentation – Win the battle/lose the war: Clockers and hollywood’s war on drugs. Annual Meeting of the Western Association of Sociology and Anthropology.  (Kelowna, BC)

Invited Talks

• September 2011, Digital Abundance and Enunciative Youth, Vancouver Public Library, Multiculturalism & Multimedia Program – United Nations Association of Canada.
• April 2011, Secondary Educators and Digital Learning, Vancouver School Board Secondary Teachers
• March 2011 Last Riot, and the Paradoxes of Digital Life, Richmond Art Gallery
• November 2009/2008   Invited Talk – An Introduction to a Culture of Virtuality, Crofton House School
• November 2008   Invited Talk – Digital Literacies and Critical Media Education in the Classroom, National Media Education Week, BC Program, Vancouver Art Gallery.
• August 2008   Invited Talk – Annual Meeting of the Social Justice Educators Association, British Columbia Teacher’s Federation, (Kamloops, BC).  Digital Literacies and Critical Media Education in the Classroom.
• November 2007  Invited Talk – Spaces of Production: Youth media and participatory acts. Geographies of Curriculum Studies, A Seminar in the Department of Curriculum Studies Seminar, University of British Columbia.
• November 2007   Invited Talk – The Meaning of Multiple Literacies and Multimodality. Production Seminar on Interpretation in Visual Art, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
• October 2007   Introductory Remarks for Dr. Henry Jenkins’ Keynote Address to the Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers.
• May 2000  Invited Talk – Globalization and media education in the classroom. Summit 2000: Media Education Conference. (Toronto, ON)

Conferences/Symposia Convened

• May 2010   Cosmopolis/Cosmopolitics: Humanities After Neoliberalism? (Conference Committee). A four-day conference on the nature and practices of citizenship in the context of cosmopolitan discourses.
• November 2009   Imagining Citizenship: The Digital Literacies Symposium, (Conference Director).  A week-long series of keynote addresses and workshops produced as part of National Media Education Week.
• April 2006   Producing dissent/dissenting production: Media, agency and counter public spheres. Symposium convened for the Media, Culture and Curriculum SIG, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA
• May 2004   Untouched: Towards a theory of reception in media education, the museum, and the art classroom. Symposium produced (with Cheryl Meszaros, C. and Stephanie Springgay) for the Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education, (Winnipeg, MB)
• May 2004   Untouched: Towards a theory of reception in media education, the museum, and the art classroom. Symposium convened (with Cheryl Meszaros and Stephanie Springgay) for the Canadian Association of Curriculum Studies, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education, Winnipeg, MB.
• February 2003   The Fading Image: Visual Culture and the Transformation of Memory (Director, Conference Organizing Committee). Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness, UBC (Vancouver, BC)
• February 2003   The Fading Image: Visual Culture and the Transformation of Memory (Director, Conference Organizing Committee). Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness, UBC (Vancouver, BC).