This edited volume broadens the understanding of the media arts at a global scale bringing together practices and ideas from artists and art educators from around the world. Authors explore issues of cultural and social diversity in fields of education, media theory, and critical theories of education and pedagogy with particular attention to digital technologies' impact on visual arts learning. Researchers utilize a range of methodologies including participant-researcher ethnographies, action research, case study, and design based research. These artists and art educators share new research about the pedagogical and theoretical aspects of media arts in educational systems that are facing unprecedented change. This volume begins to map why and how experts are working within networked society and playing with digital innovations through media arts education as a critical and creative practice.

Aaron D. Knochel is Associate Professor of Art Education and an affiliated faculty at the Art& Design Research Incubator (ADRI) at The Pennsylvania State University, USA.  

1. Introduction.- SECTION 1. Activism in Global Media Arts: Political Mediascapes and Speaking Back to Power.- 2. Media Arts as Political Advocacy in Hong Kongs Social Movements.- 3. Back to the People: Transforming the Role of Media Arts in the Context of the Chilean Social Uprising of October 2019.- 4. Patriotism and Nationalism: Sounds of Dissent and Resistance in Contemporary India.- 5. Disruption, Innovation, Creativity, and the Right Thing in the Age of Global Media Arts.- 6. Zooming In: Learning with Videoconferencing as Posthuman Pedagogy.- SECTION 2. Reframing Global Media Arts: Theorizing Innovation in New Media.- 7. Digital Making, Digital Breaking: Technological Dysfunction and a Postdigital Art Education.- 8. Emerging Technologies in Art Education: What If I Dont Want To?.- 9. Digital Media and Art Education: The European Digital Competence Framework.- 10. The Significance of Media Arts Education from a Cognitive Science Approach.- 11. Entanglements in AI Art.- 12:Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Art Education in a Posthuman World.- SECTION 3. Engaging Difference in Global Media Arts: Cultural Diversity and Empowerment.- 13. Decoding Stereotypes in Child-Oriented Media toward LGBTQ+: Preservice Art Teachers Perspectives.- 14. Creating Social Dialogues through a Media Arts Education Project in the Canary Islands.- 15: Media Arts and Assistive Technologies as Empowering Global Communication Tools for Students with Visual Impairments.- 16: Uganda-US Creative Collaborations in Media Arts.- SECTION 4. Contextualizing Global Media Arts: Case Studies in Pedagogy.- 17: Case Studies of High School Art Teachers Perceptions of Media Arts Teaching under the New Arts Curriculum Guidelines in Taiwan.- 18. Time Management in Media Arts Education: Stories from Taiwan.- 19. The Meaning of Animating in the Digital Era: Animation Education Practice in Japan.- 20. New Media Arts Education at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences.