Innovation Showcases
Pedagogical Practices for DEIA+AR: Programatic Case Study View Digital Media
Innovation Case Studies Jade G. Winn, Ruth Wallach, Melissa L. Miller, Christopher Stewart
During the turbulent year of 2020 with systematic racism in the news, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, racially motivated police shootings, and the pandemic all converging; a group of faculty from the Masters of Management in Library and Information Sciences (MMLIS) at the University of Southern California (USC) formed a working group to proactively plan for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility and Anti-Racism (DEIA+AR) in three areas (curriculum, pedagogy and programmatic). This presentation and paper describe one of the three areas of focus, pedagogy for DEIA+AR. Through an active engagement process with students and faculty, the DEIA+AR working group was able to offer recommendations for best practices for DEIA+AR pedagogical practices. We will report on the process, deliverables, and ultimately the set of practices that our faculty can use to ensure thoughtful DEIA+AR pedagogical practices that promote diversity, equity, inclusion accessibility, and anti-racism and can be adopted by any discipline. In addition to programmatic changes and developing an intentional curriculum, many pedagogical practices can be easily put in place immediately to contribute to inclusive classroom settings. Participants will leave this session with new actionable pedagogical practices that promote DEIA+AR in the classroom. Additionally, these practices can be used by the business sector and the business community will understand how to use DEIA+AR pedagogical practices in business settings to the benefit of all participants.
Truth, Resistance, and Context Through Podcasting
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Brad Clark
It has long been established that North American media organizations interpret the world through a white, Eurocentric lens, leading to content that is often stereotypic, inherently negative, lacking context and/or inaccurate when it comes to representations of racialized and Indigenous peoples. One of the ways to reduce the influence of the dominant culture, beyond diverse hiring measures, is to put the means of production in the hands of marginalized groups. This decolonizing approach has resulted in more balanced news coverage and more fulsome public dialogue on issues of race and identity than is generally seen in mainstream news. Podcasting as a form of media content is one way for First Peoples and racialized groups to tell their own stories in a format that is both authentic and engaging. This audio genre has many advantages over legacy media in terms of its ease of production and distribution, as well as its ability to connect with listeners on a personal level, explaining its growth in popularity. This presentation takes a case studies approach to explore three specific podcast series by racialized and Indigenous producers that demonstrates the promise of podcasting to deliver decolonized narratives to mainstream audiences. The analysis of Connie Walker’s award-winning Missing and Murdered: Finding Cleo, Ibram X. Kendi’s Be Antiracist, and Serial’s The Trojan Horse Affair offers strategies for under-represented groups to challenge the dominant media discourse that all too often stereotypes, lapses into fear and sensationalism, and lacks important historical context.
