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Dr. M. Sylvia Weintraub is an Assistant Professor of Art Education in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Serving as Coordinator of the Art Education Program, Dr. Weintraub oversees state licensure for pre-service teachers at UTM. In conjunction with maintaining an active studio practice, her academic research examines how DIY communities of practice exchange creative content and gain adaptive skillsets on social media sites like Pinterest, TikTok, and YouTube. Using interdisciplinary methods, Weintraub’s work zeroes in on ways in which social media can provide access to informal art education outside of traditional academic confines, and also how it can be used as a tool for pre-service and in-service K-12 teachers. In addition to sculpture and installation art, Weintraub creates art-based data visualizations using typographical approaches and animation to analyze persuasive media and its impact on data literacy.
Research Interests
Art Education Online, Social Media, Social Computing, Internet Research, Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Pedagogy, Rural Arts Initiatives, Museum Education, Visual Studies, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Human factors, Psychographics, Persuasive Media, Digital Humanities (DH), Modern and Contemporary Art History, Animation History
Research Methods
Arts-Based Research (ABR), Data Visualization, Digital / Auto Ethnography, Content / Sentiment Analysis, Narrative Analysis, Participatory Action Research (PAR), Narrative Analysis, Mixed Methods (Quantitative / Qualitative)
Theoretical Frameworks
Virtual Communities of Practice (CoPs), Critical Aesthetic Pedagogy (CAP), New Media Theory, Generative Knowledge, Post-Humanism, New Materialisms, Neo-Marxism, Liveness, Critical theory, Critical Pedagogy, Media Ecology, Embodied Learning
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