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Things worth knowing: Participatory research with children on media cultures and play
17 April 2024, 5:30 pm–7:30 pm
Join John Potter for this Professorial Lecture as he discusses his research with children that is designed to uncover their engagement with the past, present and future of media cultures and play.
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John will explore how mixed research methods have contributed to understanding the detail of children’s lived experience through qualitative enquiry. He aims to uncover the ‘things worth knowing’ about the details of children’s lives, dispositions and ways of being in the world.
Working within the paradigm of the new sociology of childhood, seeing children as being and not simply becoming, John discusses placing their experience at the heart of research and theory building. The projects outlined in the lecture take place in a ‘third space’, in which attempts are made to flatten traditional hierarchies and see children as co-producers of research about their lives.
In the era of platformisation, AI, and datafication, John's research, which draws on multimodality, cultural studies and postdigital theory, contributes rich descriptions of children’s lives past, present, and emergent, which speak back to quantitative, reductive, and performative datasets.
This in-person event will be particularly useful for researchers, teachers and students.
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About the Speakers
Professor John Potter
Professor of Media in Education at UCL IOE
His research, teaching and publications are in the field of new literacies, media education, play on and offscreen, curation and agency in social media.
He is also director of ReMAP (Researching Education, Media, Arts and Play), a research collaborative based in the Department of Culture, Communication and Media at the UCL Knowledge Lab, and at UCL East. Before working in Higher Education, John was a primary school teacher, mainly in Tower Hamlets in East London.
More about Professor John PotterProfessor Jennifer Rowsell (Respondent)
Professor of Digital Literacy at the School of Education, University of Sheffield
She is an interdisciplinary researcher, who started out her scholarly career studying literacy from an ethnographic-multimodal lens that continues today. She investigates the ways that people engage in literacy practices across all aspects of their lives.
For over a decade, she has focused more on digital literacy and most recently, on the notion of the post-digital. At the heart of her work is an enduring curiosity and passion for people’s stories about their lived literacy practices.
Professor Li Wei (Chair)
Director and Dean at UCL IOE
His research covers many aspects of bilingualism and multilingualism, including language acquisition in childhood, education policy and practice regarding bilingual and multilingual learners of minoritised and transnational backgrounds, and the cognitive benefits of language learning.
He is a fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Social Sciences, UK, and Academia Europaea.
More about Professor Li Wei (Chair)