Spencer Brayton's guest appearances

Spencer Brayton

Leading Lines

Ben Shapiro

Dan Levy

Kelly Hogan

Adam Miller

James Lang

Holly Tucker

Brian Dear

John Katzman

Chris Parrish

Bryan Alexander

Patrick Rael

Matt Upson

Jack Madden

Joshua Eyler

Betsy Barre

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Natasha Casey

In this episode, the newest member of the Leading Lines team, Melissa Mallon, brings us an interview about teaching critical media literacy. The interview features Natasha Casey, a communications professor at Blackburn College in Illinois, and Spencer Brayton, library manager at Waubonsee Community College, also in Illinois. While Brayton was at Blackburn College, he and Casey collaborated to bring their respective fields—information literacy and media literacy—together, developing and team teaching a course on media and information literacy. The course took at a critical look at the topics, meaning that there was a particular focus to issues of power and control in digital media.Links:•Natasha Casey’s blog, No Silos, http://www.natashacasey.com/mil-blog•Spencer Brayton’s blog, Converging Spaces, https://spencerbrayton.wordpress.com/•@NatashaCaseyIRL, http://twitter.com/NatashaCaseyIRL•@brayton_spencer, http://twitter.com/brayton_spencer•RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, the 2008 open-source documentary directed by Brett Gaylor and featuring the DJ Gregg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, https://vimeo.com/8040182 •Melissa Mallon’s new book, The Pivotal Role of Academic Librarians in Digital Learning, https://www.abc-clio.com/LibrariesUnlimited/product.aspx?pc=A5258P

In this episode, the newest member of the Leading Lines team, Melissa Mallon, brings us an interview about teaching critical media literacy. The interview features Natasha Casey, a communications professor at Blackburn College in Illinois, and Spencer Brayton, library manager at Waubonsee Community College, also in Illinois. While Brayton was at Blackburn College, he and Casey collaborated to bring their respective fields—information literacy and media literacy—together, developing and team teaching a course on media and information literacy. The course took at a critical look at the topics, meaning that there was a particular focus to issues of power and control in digital media. Links: •Natasha Casey’s blog, No Silos, <a href="http://www.natashacasey.com/mil-blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.natashacasey.com/mil-blog</a> •Spencer Brayton’s blog, Converging Spaces, <a href="https://spencerbrayton.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://spencerbrayton.wordpress.com/</a> •@NatashaCaseyIRL, <a href="http://twitter.com/NatashaCaseyIRL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/NatashaCaseyIRL</a> •@brayton_spencer, <a href="http://twitter.com/brayton_spencer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/brayton_spencer</a> •RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, the 2008 open-source documentary directed by Brett Gaylor and featuring the DJ Gregg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, <a href="https://vimeo.com/8040182" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/8040182</a> •Melissa Mallon’s new book, The Pivotal Role of Academic Librarians in Digital Learning, <a href="https://www.abc-clio.com/LibrariesUnlimited/product.aspx?pc=A5258P" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.abc-clio.com/LibrariesUnlimited/product.aspx?pc=A5258P</a>

Episode 039 - Natasha Casey - Spencer Brayton