[Air-L] "Media Realities" and a short clip for education enthusiasts

[Rakesh Biswas]

The only explanation that this short film clip didn't get an Oscar yet is
perhaps because it was released just 6 days back although it already has
3.7M views!

Hate to give away the climax as a hook but here goes: the final
breakthrough in this student's education came when they found a teacher who
thought so much out of the box that for him the box didn't exist!

What made the student reach up to the next level from a learner to a
performer was an "out of the box" education assessment technology designed
by this "out of the box" engineer teacher and the the team named that tech :

"education progress bar elevator!"

More here 👇

https://youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?si=ubSzgCR6xMyrS9vn

best,

rb


On Wed, 12 Nov 2025, 07:00 Erika Polson via Air-L, <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
wrote:

> Call for papers: Media Realities International Symposium, Jönköping
> University Sweden
> Organisers: Annette Hill (MKV, Jönköping University) and Hario Priambodho
> (Lund University)
> Dates: 29-30 April 2026
> Media realities face multilevel challenges. Realities play off varieties
> of representations, technologies and experiences. Media realities are
> rooted in different professional traditions, e.g. film and television,
> radio and journalism, gaming, social and synthetic media. There are
> multiple routes for realities, including archives and records,
> representations and remixes, virtual and artificial intelligence. These
> roots and routes for media realities take place in intense, contested
> settings regarding trust, truth and treatment of the real.
> In a post referential framework, traditional knowledge systems associated
> with media and public service institutions face intense scrutiny by
> audiences and publics, politicians, NGOs and policy and community leaders.
> For example, engagement with witnesses and accounts of real events, or
> experts and explanations of scientific knowledge struggle to maintain
> referential integrity. Is reality played out?
> This symposium addresses the multiplicities of realities within empirical
> and theoretical research across media and communications, digital
> technologies, culture and society. The combination of panels and roundtable
> discussions foster critical perspectives and methodological reflections on
> the performative and distortive aspects of media past, present and future.
> Key questions for this international symposium include 1) what are the
> various understandings and practices of media realities across industries,
> technologies, culture and society? 2) How are representations of realities
> constituted and contested in public, popular and mediated spheres?
> We invite researchers to explore, analyse and understand the theme of
> media realities across the following connected areas of enquiry:
>
>   *   Professional practices for media and representations of realities;
>   *   Creating realities in film and media, radio and music, virtual
> realities and AI, gaming and live events, arts and museums;
>   *   Deep fakes and manipulation of realities in automated and artificial
> content:
>   *   Media and realities within social movements, mobilisation and
> activism;
>   *   Political realities in news, documentary, information,
> disinformation and polarization
>   *   Popular realities in fiction, drama and entertainment:
>   *   Varieties of engagement and experiences of media and realities;
>   *   Communication of realities within organisations and media, film  and
> cultural industries;
>   *   Realities and mobility, transnational communication and
> transportation of goods and services, humans and non humans
>   *   Global, local, transnational and decolonial media and realities
>
> The programme for the symposium across two days includes keynote panels
> with invited speakers of senior and junior scholars, editors and publishers
> and open parallel panels. There will be a dedicated website, streaming
> podcasts of keynote speakers and selected papers from the symposium will be
> edited in international academic publications, in collaboration with
> Routledge and Intellect. The senior editors at Routledge and Intellect
> Press and open access peer reviewed academic journal Media Theory will be
> present, chairing a workshop on impact, quality research and academic
> publishing for scientific books and journals.
> International invited speakers include Julia Brockley (Intellect Press),
> Simon Dawes (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France),
> Natalie Foster (Routledge), Annette Hill (Jönköping University, Sweden),
> Tim Markham (Birkbeck, UK) Hario Priambodho (Lund University, Sweden) and
> Robert Willim (Lund University, Sweden).
> Please submit an abstract of 300 words in English by deadline Friday 12
> December 2025 to Hario Priambodho (hario.priambodho at iko.lu.se<mailto:
> hario.priambodho at iko.lu.se>). For further information please consult our
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> There is a registration fee of 2800 SEK. The fee covers lunches, beverages
> and snacks over two days, and an end of symposium meal.
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