On May 25th, 2008, Jim Groom, a professor and instructional technology specialist, coined the term Edupunk in a blog post as a reactionary response and critique of the cooptation and commodification of Web 2.0 tools by learning management system Blackboard. Edupunk gained widespread attention, and opened up discussion and debate on questions of education and pedagogy. Using Edupunk as a starting point of discussion, this thesis looks at the potentiality of moments and their impacts on world making. Drawing from the work of Ernst Van Alphen and affect theory, this thesis argues that moments "think." When we experience something (be it, visual art, text, video, or ordinary life), we feel its affects and think through the questions that it poses. Through affect, moments influence (individual and collective) change both through the potential trajectories of where they may lead us, and their connections to other moments that contribute to world making.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/29485 |
| Date | 11 August 2011 |
| Creators | O'Hearn, Danielle |
| Contributors | Simon, Roger I. |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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