Douglas Kellner

The Sudikoff Family Institute for Education & New Media Fellow 2003 - 04

Professor Douglas Kellner holds the distinguished George F. Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. His work explores cultural studies, philosophy of education, and the relationship between technology, education, and society.

Key to Dr. Kellner's work is the development of new literacies as a response to new technologies, and influencing the evolution of new teaching methods towards meeting the challenges of globalization and multiculturalism. In developing new literacies, Dr. Kellner dissolves the boundaries of the traditional classroom by making new media technologies accessible to and supportive of the interests of minorities and others traditionally excluded.

Dr. Kellner has created several popular websites, of which his principle site, www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner, receives an estimated 1,000 visitors a day. His high profile Internet weblog (Blog), "BlogLeft: Critical Interventions," explores the current U.S. political climate.

Dr. Kellner is the author of several books, including his most recent Media Spectacle (Routledge, 2003) and From 9/11 to Terror War (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and is co-author of The Postmodern Adventure (Guilford Press, 2001), winner of ForeWord Magazines' Book of the Year. He has also examined U.S. politics and culture in such works as Media Culture (Routledge, 1995), Television and the Crisis of Democracy (Westview Press, 1990), and The Persian Gulf TV War (Westview Press, 1992). Professor Kellner critically engages emerging literacies in articles such as "New Technologies/New Literacies: Reconstructing Education for the New Millennium," (Teaching Education) and "Critical Perspectives on Visual Literacy," (The Journal of Visual Literacy, Spring 2002).