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March 17th 2015: How Many Views Does It Take to EMPOWER?

You’ve heard about YouTube bringing some people fortune and fame. Justin Bieber? Susan Boyle? Sites such as YouTube allow anyone with a camera and a computer to create and post their own video. So, do YouTube and other participatory forms of social media empower us? Do they allow everyone to speak their voice and to forge their own path? Or, do they give us a false sense of reality? My guest, Alexandra Juhasz, teaches the popular college course, Learning from YouTube, which examines how the internet and YouTube have changed the way we learn. Join me as we discover whether a participatory platf

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Alexandra Juhasz

Dr. Alexandra Juhasz is Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College. She has a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies from NYU and has taught courses on YouTube, media archives, activist media, documentary, and feminist film. She is the author of "AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video," "Women of Vision: Histories in Feminist Film and Video," "F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth’s Undoing," and "Learning from YouTube." Dr. Juhasz is also the producer of educational videotapes on feminist issues from AIDS to teen pregnancy. She directed the documentaries "SCALE: Measuring Might in the Media Age," "Video Remains," "Dear Gabe," and "Women of Vision: 18 Histories in Feminist Film and Vide

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