AERA Media, Culture & Learning SIG

Sunday, April 27 8:00 - 9:30am Meeting Room Level - Room 707 Cross-Platformization, Digital Media Platforms as Global Ecosystems, and the Shifting Understandings of Critical Platform Practices Symposium

Don't miss our final #AERA2025 #AERA25 Media, Culture & Learning Symposium!
Sunday, April 27 8:00 - 9:30am
Meeting Room Level - Room 707
Cross-Platformization, Digital Media Platforms as Global Ecosystems, and the Shifting Understandings of Critical Platform Practices

Saturday, April 26 3:20 - 4:50pm Ballroom Level - Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3 Table 1 Community Connection Across Digital Social Spaces Table 2 Critical Intersections of Mental Health and Social Media Table 3 From Hierarchies to Hubs: Creating and Sustaining Educational Transformation through Podcasts Table 4 Gaming as Community, Public Pedagogy, and Skill Building Table 5 Perspectives in Policy and Practice with Technology and AI Tools Table 6 Podcasts as Public Scholarship: (Re)Imagining Theories in Everyday Life Table 7 Affordances and Challenges in Developing, Implementing, and Researching a Digital Media-Based Family Program Roundtables

Saturday is Roundtable Day for the @mclsig.bsky.social! Hope you can join us! #AERA2025 #AERA25

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Scenes from the Multi-SIG #Literacies Social with @mclsig.bsky.social, @writinglit.bsky.social, & Literature SIG!

Congrats to @aaronadanaguilar.bsky.social Aaron Aguilar, doc student in Education Policy Studies @uwmadison.bsky.social , for this award!

For those who just joined @mclsig.bsky.social & @writinglit.bsky.social tonight, here is the #literacies starter pack. Let me know if I can add you to it!

Such a great convo with @writinglit.bsky.social folks last night at our combined business meeting, and let’s social it up with all our #literacies colleagues including the Literature SIG tonight! #AERA2025 #AERA25

@mclsig.bsky.social this is so cool, thank you!! #AERA2025

screen with Aaron Adan Aguilar, recipient of the 2025 Media, Culture & Learning SIG Best Graduate Student Research Excellence Award for manuscript, ““Easier or better?”: Examining educator sense-making of Ed-Tech Platforms in datafied schools.”

Aaron Adan Aguilar & Danielle Filipiak

Congratulations to Aaron Adan Aguilar, recipient of the 2025 Media, Culture & Learning SIG Best Graduate Student Research Excellence Award for manuscript, ““Easier or better?”: Examining educator sense-making of Ed-Tech Platforms in datafied schools.” #AERA2025 #AERA25 #literacies

screen with the announcement of 2025 Best Empirical Paper Award for Dr. Eleni Katsarou & Konstantinos Sipitanos's manuscript, “Incorporating students’ empowerment against disinformation in the curricula of HEIs in EU countries"

Drs. Konstantinos Sipitanos, Eleni Katsarou & Danielle Fillipiak

Congratulations to Dr. Eleni Katsarou & Dr. Konstantinos Sipitanos, recipients of the 2025 Media, Culture & Learning SIG Best Empirical Paper award for the manuscript, “Incorporating students’ empowerment against disinformation in the curricula of HEIs in EU countries.” #AERA2025 #AERA25 #literacies

AERA Media, Culture & Learning SIG (@mclsig.bsky.social) The Media, Culture & Learning Special Interest Group of AERA Board Members: Dr. Danielle Filipiak, Chair Dr. Stephanie Rollag Yoon, Program Chair Dr. Anna Smith, Treasurer (managing this account)

Congrats to Phil Nichols, the new chair of @mclsig.bsky.social #AERA2025

Flyer that reads: Multi-SIG Literacies Social. Join the Literature SIG, the Media Culture & Learning SIG, and the Writing & Literacie SIG for a joint networking social at AERA 2025. Meet us at Ace Eat Serve, 501 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO. Friday 4/25 8 PM MDT, Ace Eat Serve, 501 E 17th Ave. Food Provided. Cash bar.

Our Multi-SIG #Literacies Social will be tomorrow with @mclsig.bsky.social and the Literature SIG.

Flyer that reads: Media, Culture & Learning SIG Sessions Friday, April 25 9:50 - 11:20am Poster Session: Learning and Navigating Through New Media Landscapes Exhibit Hall Level - Exhibit Hall F 8pm Multi-SIG Literacies Networking Social Join up with members of the Literature SIG, Media, Culture & Learning SIG & Writing & Literacies SIG! ACE EAT SERVE, 501 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO

Flyer that reads: Multi-SIG Literacies Social. Join the Literature SIG, the Media Culture & Learning SIG, and the Writing & Literacie SIG for a joint networking social at AERA 2025. Meet us at Ace Eat Serve, 501 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO. Friday 4/25 8 PM MDT, Ace Eat Serve, 501 E 17th Ave. Food Provided. Cash bar.

For Friday, April 25th, don't miss the #AERA2025 Media, Culture & Learning SIG Poster Session and Multi-SIG #Literacies Social with Literature SIG & @writinglit.bsky.social SIG! #AERA25

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Media, Culture & Learning SIG Sessions 2025 Thursday, April 24 8:00 - 9:30am Meeting Room Level - Room 707 Educators’ Identities and Perceptions Across Tech Platforms, AI, and Multimodal Literacies Session Highlight: 2025 Graduate Student Research Excellence Award Recipient: Aaron Adan Aguilar Paper Session 7:15 - 8:45pm Meeting Room Level - Room 703 Business Meeting: Advancing Dialogue in Critical Literacies, Writing, and Civic Engagement in a Postdigital Era

Advancing Dialogue in Critical Literacies, Writing, and Civic Engagement in a Postdigital Era Media, Culture, & Learning SIG Combined Business Meeting Writing & Literacies SIG 7:15 - 8:45 pm The Colorado Convention Center Meeting Room Level - Room 703 Thursday, 4. 24 Dr. Earl Aguilera Dr. Amy Stornaiuolo Dr. T. Philip Nichols Dr. Detra Price

Enjoying Wednesday? Check out Thursday for the Media, Culture & Learning SIG!

Flyer that reads: Multi-SIG Literacies Social. Join the Literature SIG, the Media Culture & Learning SIG, and the Writing & Literacie SIG for a joint networking social at AERA 2025. Meet us at Ace Eat Serve, 501 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO. Friday 4/25 8 PM MDT, Ace Eat Serve, 501 E 17th Ave. Food Provided. Cash bar.

Happening Friday with Literature SIG, Media Culture & Learning SIG @mclsig.bsky.social, and the Writing & Literacies SIG! #literacies

All sessions Meeting Room Level - Room 707 9:00 - 10:30am Revisiting James Gee’s “What Videogames Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy”: Critical Perspectives for the 21st Century Symposium 2:30 - 4:00pm Youth Learning in Action: Moves Toward Civic, Digital, and Media Literacy Session Highlight: 2025 Best Empirical Paper Award Recipients: Dr. Eleni Katsarou & Dr. Konstantinos Sipitanos Paper Session 4:20 - 5:50pm Critical Discourse in Media: Impacts on Learning and Cultural Politics Paper Session

#AERA2025, let's get this started! Here is the Wednesday schedule for our Media, Culture & Learning SIG! It includes the recipients of the 2025 Best Empirical Paper award for the manuscript, “Incorporating students’ empowerment against disinformation in the curricula of HEIs in EU countries."

Flyer that reads: Multi-SIG Literacies Social. Join the Literature SIG, the Media Culture & Learning SIG, and the Writing & Literacie SIG for a joint networking social at AERA 2025. Meet us at Ace Eat Serve, 501 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO. Friday 4/25 8 PM MDT, Ace Eat Serve, 501 E 17th Ave. Food Provided. Cash bar.

Join our Multi-SIG #Literacies Social at #AERA25

Combined Business Meeting WRITING & LITERACIES SIG MEDIA, CULTURE, & LEARNING SIG PANEL DISCUSSION Advancing Dialogue in Critical Literacies, Writing, and Civic Engagement in a Postdigital Era Profile pictures of Dr. Earl Aguilera Dr. Amy Stornaiuolo Dr. T. Phillip Nichols Dr. Detra Price Thursday, 4.24 7:15-8:45 PM The Colorado Convention Center Meeting Room Level-Room 703 Clip art of a person sitting by a large phone screen typing on the phone

Mark your calendars! Our Business Meeting is combined w/ @writinglit.bsky.social & features a stellar panel: Drs. @earlaguilera.bsky.social, @amystorn.bsky.social, @philnichols.bsky.social & Detra Price on Advancing Dialogue in Critical #Literacies, Writing & Civic Engagement in a Postdigital Era.

decorative splash of paint with the content Join the Literature SIG, the Media, Culture & Learning SIG, and the Writing & Literacies SIG for a joint networking social at AERA 2025. Meet us at Ace Eat Serve, 501 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO on Friday 4/25 at 8pm MDT!

Join the Literature SIG, the Media, Culture & Learning SIG, and the Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social for a joint networking social at AERA 2025. Meet us at Ace Eat Serve, 501 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO on Friday 4/25 at 8pm MDT!

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The @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Media, Culture & Learning SIG is now on Bluesky at @mclsig.bsky.social ! Can you help us spread the word?

AERA Special Interest Group Media, Culture & Learning in a diamond with a splash of mauve paint behind the words

The @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Media, Culture & Learning SIG is now on Bluesky at @mclsig.bsky.social ! Can you help us spread the word?

decorative splash of paint with the content Join the Literature SIG, the Media, Culture & Learning SIG, and the Writing & Literacies SIG for a joint networking social at AERA 2025. Meet us at Ace Eat Serve, 501 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO on Friday 4/25 at 8pm MDT!

Join the Literature SIG, the Media, Culture & Learning SIG, and the Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social for a joint networking social at AERA 2025. Meet us at Ace Eat Serve, 501 E 17th Ave, Denver, CO on Friday 4/25 at 8pm MDT!