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Dr. Jon Hyde |
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The Short Version Dr. Jon Hyde is an
environmental photographer, videographer, and a professor of global media and
digital arts. His creative works have
won multiple awards and have been featured in galleries, museums, and in
publications--nationally and internationally.
He’s a former international
Fulbright Fellow, having conducted work in Borneo, Malaysia at the University of Malaysia—School for Applied and
Creative Arts. Originally
from Colorado, he received his BA from
Carleton College and his MA and
Ph.D. from New York University. His work as a photographer, teacher, and
researcher have taken him to over 60 countries on six continents. He currently resides in Burlington,
Vermont and is a Professor of Media, Journalism, and Digital Arts at St.
Michael’s College. Click here to see
recent works >> Art of the WILD: Photographic Gallery and Museum Exhibitions >> YouTube
Channel: THE FILM STREAM: Student
Documentary Productions |
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The Longer Take Professor Hyde teaches
courses in photography, filmmaking,
digital web/media design, and global communications. He also teaches courses on the impact media
and technologies play on human health,
identity, diversity, happiness, and the environment. Former students have gone on to win Pulitzer Prizes, Fulbright Fellowships
and develop careers around the world
working for both large and small media organizations (NYTimes, Disney, ESPN, CBS, PBS, HBO
and others). Professor Hyde has
conducted research and led international educational programs in Asia,
Europe, the Middle East, South and Central America. In the Himalayan
nation of Bhutan, he worked with the Bhutan
Centre for Media and Democracy develop one of the first media literacy
and collaborative media education programs for the nation’s teachers and
students. This project (Media Nomads) addressed important
shifts in culture, health and happiness in the face of rapid media and
technological change. Click here to see >> Courses Developed
and Taught |
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Through his passion for issues of health, the
environment and the outdoors, Dr. Hyde has developed a range of
interdisciplinary courses which focus on harnessing media to empower us as citizens
toward better health and stronger connections to our natural
environments. He teaches courses which
critically evaluate the health and environmental consequences of media use,
media addictions, and tech myopias. He was one of the
earliest educators to challenge students to a week without a phone, device, or digital media and he developed
one of the first courses on adventure filmmaking in the outdoors. His current course on environmental and adventure filmmaking has students working with
community partners and nonprofits to create innovative and inclusive stories
which move beyond the current conventions and standard mainstream story
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Dr. Hyde received his
Ph.D. from New York University's graduate program in Media Ecology. He resides in Burlington, Vermont, with his
wife and colleague, Dr. Kimberly
Sultze. Their photographic works
have been featured in gallery exhibits in New York, Los Angeles, Austin,
Boston, Rome, Athens, Malaysia and elsewhere.
He has an unexplained love for trying to photograph (and better
understand) creatures that tend to unnerve him -- snakes, grizzly bears, and
stinging-biting insects, especially at night.
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Professor Jon Hyde interviewing Tom Freston, founder of MTV |
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Dr. Hyde has an
enduring love of the outdoors and outdoor pursuits. He’s a life-long runner, mountain biker,
kitesurfer, backcountry skier, and snowboarder. With repeated Youtube screenings (and
bruises), he’s been teaching himself to become a trials bike rider. The process is slow. |
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