sculpture by Peter Liversidge, photo by Leigh Taylor

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"Everything flows." -- Heraclitus

Metacognition

learning how I learn
teaching and mentoring

Metamedia

computers and internet convey all old media

text
image
video

but also enable all future media

interative
data viz
system modelling
games

Agency

To have agency in digital society we have to know how to manipulate not just media, but the tools that make media.

Consume media
Create and publish static media
Create and publish dynamic media
Create and hack media creation tools

Media creation a hacking tools, designed for playful hackability

(the next level: flowhub.io)

This is Not a Conspiracy Theory

63% of Americans believe in at least one conspiracy theory. This delusional belief (hope?) is that there must be somebody pulling the strings (NWO, Lizard People, Aliens, Illuminati).

World systems are complicated.

but

They were created by people, and can be changed.

If we can model and understand the systems better, we might see how to change them for the better.

That requires more people, experts in more domains, to have
dynamic media literacy:

reading => critical media consumption

writing => design and programming