Ever since the 17th century, the
"advancement of learning" as Francis Bacon called it, has depended upon the way print publications have organized the evaluation and dissemination of academic work. The print medium has been the default scholarly medium.
print is no longer the primary intellectual medium, and it is time for scholars to move forward.
Knowledge has new habits, new identities, and a new social life within the radically transformed ways in which communication takes place today.
We must have a
scholarly communications system configured to the predominant
communications medium of the new millennium.
Academics who refuse to transform the way they communicate and value information will find, like the professional journalists, that they simply won't play much of a role in the knowledge commons.
headshotDr. Greg Elmer, (gelmer at bell.blackberry.net) Director Infoscape Research Lab & Bell Globemedia Research Chair, Ryerson University
Greg Elmer (PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst) is associate professor of Communication and Culture and Radio TV Arts at Ryerson University. Greg's research and teaching focus on new media and politics, information and communication technologies, computer networks, and media globalization. Greg provides analysis and commentary for the media on the role of new media in Canadian and American politics. In the fall 2008 Greg worked with CBC-The National on its internet coverage of the Canadian federal election. In 2007 Greg joined Ottawa's The Hill Times as a political columnist.
Rubin will offer his views on the problematic yet remarkable development of European Humanities University (EHU), formerly in Minsk, and will show videos made by Belarusan students often working in collaboration with SUNY students.
For seven years, Rubin has been developing and teaching his Cross Cultural Video course in which SUNY students have co-produced videos with students in Turkey, Mexico, Belarus, Germany and Lithuania. He taught the course with EHU in Minsk until 2005, when that university was shut down by the government
While at SUNY Cortland, Rubin also wishes to meet faculty interested in online international learning. With the participation of a number of SUNY Cortland colleagues, COIL has become a leading center for on-line teaching and learning along an international dimension. According to Rubin, the mission of COIL is to develop more on-line courses with an international dimension throughout SUNY.
"The Open Source Film Project is founded by CEO Dominick Del Bosque, which produces high quality film and television productions with numerous divisions providing everything from film to commercials.
The Film Squad, which can be accessed through a podcast on iTunes, is comprised of Putri Arif, Moritz Bunk, Dominick Del Bosque, and Kerry Liethen. Together they are Editors and Contributors to The Open Source Film Project website, which reviews film, television, and news pertaining to the entertainment industry."