O MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) tem um departamento chamado CMS: Comparative Media Studies. O diretor do CMS, Henry Jenkins, escreveu um artigo muito atual discutindo a seguinte questão: "How might media studies, the field most committed to mapping these changes as they affect modern life, be taught in a YouNiversity?"
Abaixo eu destaquei algumas partes do artigo:
1) "Media studies needs to become comparative, teaching critics to think across multiple media systems and teaching media makers to produce across multiple media systems."
2) "Media studies needs to reflect the ways that the contemporary media landscape is blurring the lines between media consumption and production, between making media and thinking about media."
3) "Media studies needs to respond to the enormous hunger for public knowledge about our present moment of profound and persistent media change."
"Each media-studies program will need to reinvent itself to reflect the specifics of its institutional setting and existing resources, and what works today will need to be rethought tomorrow as we deal with further shifts in the information landscape. That's the whole point of an adhocracy: It's built to tap current opportunities, but, like ice sculpture, it isn't made to last. The modern university should work not by defining fields of study but by removing obstacles so that knowledge can circulate and be reconfigured in new ways. For media studies, that means taking down walls that separate the study of different media, that block off full collaboration between students, that make it difficult to combine theory and practice, and that isolate academic research from the larger public conversations about media change.
Until we make these changes, the best thinking (whether evaluated in terms of process or outcome) is likely to take place outside academic institutions -- through the informal social organizations that are emerging on the Web. We may or may not see the emergence of YouNiversities, but YouTube already exists. And its participants are learning plenty about how media power operates in a networked society."
O artigo completo pode ser encontrado em http://cms.mit.edu/news/features/2007/02/from_youtube_to_youniversity.php
Recomendo a todos lerem a proposta do CMS, que pode e deve servir como benchmark para o nosso curso.
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