ABSTRACT
“Teaching Across Difference through Critical Media Production” details a specific assignment that Gonzalez, a professor of communication at the University of Washington Seattle, utilizes in a college classroom that centers concepts of difference and equity. The student work emerging from this assignment imagines a classic legacy media product – the television series – that challenges typical racialized and gendered representations. But the television series is also imagined as taking place within a participatory media ecology, in part to avoid the gatekeeping mechanisms that would make such a product difficult to produce in mainstream broadcast or cable television settings, but also to take advantage of the affordances of participatory media for multi-valent engagement from audiences.
