The Adventures of a Digital Sensei
It is a Festivus miracle! Here is the New York Cine Radio Christmas Special that I spoke of in an earlier post when I was interviewed on TV! This week on the podcast the gang and I discuss the new “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” film and Continue reading “NY Cine Radio: The 2015 Christmas Special”
A colleague of mine, Michael Mandiberg, invited me to be a guest lecturer for a class he was teaching at the CUNY Graduate Center. The students in his class were PhD candidates within the CUNY Interactive Technology and Pedagogy certificate program. Over the course of the semester his class examined how people and technologies have shaped academic classroom and research interactions in the past, and how they are reshaping the university in the present.
I spoke on the topic of “The Digital Humanities & the Future of Academic Inquiry and Publishing”. Michael thought that my previous papers, interviews, and conference presentations on the topic of digital scholarship would help spark a lively debate among his students.
Here is a preview of the new promo banner for the New York Cine Radio podcast. It features all of the hosts of the show in one shot. The next step is to redesign the website to reflect the new style and attitude of the broadcast!
I had an opportunity to participate on a faculty panel at LaGuardia Community College to discuss the topic of Black Males in Adult Education this week. I was invited to sit on the panel and critique “Swimming Upstream: Black Males in Adult Education” by my LaGuardia colleague, Dr. Joni Schwartz. The book was the first volume in a series of books that Joni and her colleagues are writing to give voice to important social and pedagogical topics issues facing Blacks in America.
The turnout for the faculty panel discussion was fairly large and it appeared Continue reading “Black Males & Learning to Swim Upstream”
This week on the New York Cine Radio podcast the gang and I discuss the new all female Ghostbusters cast, the rumored Indiana Jones reboot with Chris Pratt, the recent happenings at Marvel Comics, and the just released Continue reading “New York Cine Radio: Who you gonna call?”
Here is the video from my recent webinar on “Creating Engaging Content for the Web and Social Media”. This was the second in a multi-part series of online seminars to educate potential students at CUNY School of Professional Studies about the field of new media. I decided to conduct the webinar because attracting users to build a sustainable social media presence for themselves or their organizations requires the Continue reading “Webinar: Creating Engaging Content”
A few weeks back the New York Cine gang and I talked about filmmaker Roger Corman and his movie “The Shooting”. The footage above is a small video segment that we pulled from the earlier audio podcast. I consider myself fairly well versed in media and cinema studies topics but my knowledge about Corman was pretty rudimentary. One of the things that I truly love about being a part of this weekly podcast is that I always learn something new. It is great that each of hosts brings different interest and perspectives to the production.
This week we welcome Ken Powell back to the podcast after a semester off to get that degree. Just one more final exam left and then he is done with school. In addition, this week I went from being a guest host to a co-host on the show, so if this whole professor thing doesn’t work out Continue reading “New York Cine Radio: North Korea and other Dumb stuff”
After attending my office Christmas party I headed to Mama’s Place Studio The new episode of the New York Cine Podcast. The gang and I talk about the latest on the Sony hacking scandal and a whole bunch of movies we reviewed this week. Most notably the Chris Evans Sci-fi film Continue reading “New York Cine Radio: Guest hosting again at Mama’s Place?”