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Playing a critical role: experiential learning resources and analytical media studies in higher education
conference contribution
posted on 2007-01-01, 00:00 authored by Kristin DemetriousKristin DemetriousThis article compares two Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) used in the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University Australia, and investigates the relationships between technology, pedagogy and key issues in the teaching and practice of public relations, in a media studies context. The online role-play ‘Save Wallaby Forest’ and the e-simulation ‘PRessure Point! Getting Framed (GF), in their different ways, afford learning environments with capabilities that present public relations and media students with opportunities to discover a critical consciousness, break out of naturalised world-views, and explore alternative approaches to organisational communication. Furthermore, they present students with complex ethical issues to investigate based around the idea that media industries are powerful discursive producers and reproducers of social norms, values and beliefs which in turn shape notions of identity and influence the formation of public opinion in society (Fairclough 1999; Habermas 1995). This article explores the intersections and differences between these distinct ICTs in their relationships to a constructivist learning approach and ethical questions about how public relations both produces and reproduces world views through practice. This interacting nexus – between technology, pedagogy and theme – is significant because “what happens in the learning process” relates to the learning outcome and therefore has the potential to develop holistic reflexivity in studies of public relations (Laurillard 2003, p.42).
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Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Conference (24th: 2007: Nanyang, Singapore)Pagination
184 - 192Publisher
Nanyang Technological UniversityLocation
Centre for Educational Development, Nanyang Technological UniversityPlace of publication
SingaporeStart date
2007-12-02End date
2007-12-05ISBN-13
9789810595784ISBN-10
9810595786Language
engNotes
Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner.Publication classification
E1 Full written paper - refereedCopyright notice
2007, Nanyang Technological UniversityEditor/Contributor(s)
R Atkinson, C McBeathTitle of proceedings
ICT: Providing Choices for Learner's and LearningUsage metrics
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