Media Technology Perspectives and Their Curriculum Implications for Media Education

Abstract

In a democracy, public education should contribute to the development of responsible. autonomous people. ‘The usual communication media of schools tend to favor conformity. However, the close match between Habermas’ criteria for emancipative discourse and the main characteristics of computer-mediated conferencing favor this medium for education. The skeleton of a theoretical systems model for computer-mediated conferencing is presented here.