 | Megan Boler phone: (416) 978-1231 email: megan.boler@utoronto.ca website: http://leo.oise.utoronto.ca/~mboler/ Departments: Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education Secondary Education | |
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Academic History PhD, History of Consciousness Program, University of California, Santa Cruz. (1993) Graduate studies, Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College, 1983-84. B.A. Philosophy, Mills College, Okaland, Ca (1982) Research Overview Megan Boler’s interdisciplinary research and teaching interests focus on social justice in political and cultural contexts; race, class, and gender in education and media; feminist theories and philosophies; poststructuralism; cultural and communications, and media studies; digital media and democracy. Her teaching and research focus on areas including: • post-structural and continental philosophy • cultural, historical and philosophical dimensions of social and educational theory • educational studies; critical and feminist pedagogies • philosophies of emotion • emotions and education • philosophy of technology; information and communications studies; media and democracy; science and technology studies; digital media studies; feminisms and technologies Web-Based Projects & Research Projects: •Rethinking Media, Citizenship and Democracy www.meganboler.net •Critical Media Literacy in Times of War www.tandl.vt.edu/Foundations/mediaproject •The Corporation study guides(doc. film Dir. By Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, 2005) •Social Justice Resource Database http://edpsychserver.ed.vt.edu/diversity/index.cfm Teaching Overview graduate seminars: TPS 1447 - Technology and Education : Philosophical Perspectives TPS 1465 - Philosophies of Affect and Emotion TPS 3417 - Feminist and Critical Pedagogies TPS 1465 - Concepts of Community Professional Activities Megan Boler received her Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness, University of California Santa Cruz. Presently Associate Chair of the Department of HSSSJE at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, she is also Affiliate Faculty at the following UT programs: Center for the Study of United States, Knowledge Media Design Institute, Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, and Cinema Studies. She is currently working with a research team of 5 OISE graduate assistants on a three-year funded SSHRC project, "Sociable Media in the Hands of Young Citizens," and recently completed another three-year SSHRC funded research project, “Rethinking Media, Citizenship and Democracy: Digital Dissent after 9/11,” through interviews and surveys examines the motivations of producers of “digital dissent”--practices of digital media to counter mainstream media. Her web-based productions include a study guide to accompany the documentary The Corporation (dirs. Achbar and Abbott 2003), and the multimedia website Critical Media Literacy in Times of War. She teaches philosophy, cultural studies, feminist theory, media studies, social equity courses in Teacher Education program, and media studies at the Knowledge Media Design Institute at University of Toronto. Representative Publications Ratto, Matt and M. Boler, eds. DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Participatory Media. (Cambridge: MIT Press) forthcoming 2013 Boler, M. (ed.) (2010). Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times. Cambridge: MIT Press
Boler, M. “Making Claims: The Responsibilities of Qualitative Researcher,” in Methodological Dilemmas of Qualitative Research, ed. Kathleen Gallagher, ed., (Routledge 2008).
Burwell, Catherine and M. Boler, "Calling on the Colbert Nation: Fandom, Politics and Parody in an Age of Media Convergence," Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication ed. by Megan Boler and Ted Gournelos. v.18 no 2, September 2008.
M. Boler, ed. (2004) Democratic Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silence. New York: Peter Lang. M.Boler. (1999) Feeling Power: Emotions and Education. New York: Routledge. (Critics Choice Award, American Educational Studies Association 2000) M. Boler, Guest Editor with Ted Gournelos, “Irony and Politics: User-Producers, Parody, and Digital Publics,” Electronic Journal of Communication (forthcoming July 2008) Boler, M. “Making Claims: The Responsibilities of Qualitative Researcher,” in Methodological Dilemmas of Qualitative Research, ed. Kathleen Gallagher (forthcoming Routledge 2008). Boler, M. “Hypes, Hopes, and Actualities: Representations of Bodies and Difference in Text-Based Digital Communication,” New Media and Society (vol. 9, no .1, February 2007) Boler, M. “Mediated Publics and the Crises of Democracy.” Philosophical Studies in Education, eds. Justen Infinito and Cris Mayo, Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education, vol.37 (2007). Curriculum Vitaehttp://www.oise.utoronto.ca/Curriculum_Vitae/Megan_Boler_CV.pdf Cultural Studies Feminist Studies |
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