The History of Mass Media Slide Presentation Topic. Use your time in the lab to complete your research on the inventor & invention that helped develop the subject on mass media that you chose. Take notes on your topic and prepare your presentation/speech. Know your material!
C. Finally, this weekend (Friday - Sunday) choose one day to unplug. Investigate how difficult or easy it is to unplug from all media sources during the day. Take notes about your reaction during this day. Bring your notes back with you next class. You will be adding your reaction/experience to the article you wrote in task B above.
HOMEWORK: See above. Unplug. Take notes about your feelings/attitude/activities during the day you unplug. If you break, note the time and what broke you to check or use the media. Bring your notes to next class. You will be writing a short article about what you experienced.
Use Google slides to incorporate your answer:
- Find out (and be able to explain) what your topic is.
- Research specific interesting details (not all details!) about your subject.
- Research how your subject influenced or impacted technology that came after it (convergence).
- Note if your technology is still being used today (or how has it changed?)
- YOUR SLIDES: should include:
- A title page with your name on it and the name of your subject/invention/topic.
- 2-3 slides about your subject (introduction of the person or culture that created the invention)
- 2-3 slides about the invention (What is it? How does it work? What did it do/what does it do?
- A slide describing what effect or impact the invention has had on other inventions or ideas (mass media) that came after it.
- A works cited page in MLA format. See MLA format for help. (You may use a citation machine to help you.)
- You may include a short video if you need to. Videos should not be more than 3 minutes in length.
- Your slides should be designed to appeal to a viewer/peer student.
- You may only have 12 words on a slide!**
- Use note cards for your presentation details about your subject matter. You may use as many note cards as you need to explain your subject and invention to your audience (us).
- You will prepare and present your "presentation" Friday.
If you complete your work today before the end of class:
A. Please read the handout and article online: A Day Without Media. Contrast this article and website with the article handout "Fighting a Social Media Addiction". In the COMMENT section below, post answers to questions for critical reading:- Consider the Maryland report alongside Johnson's "Fighting a Social Media Addiction" especially in light of Rutledge's claim that the report's conclusion "had nothing to do with addiction" [para. 7]. To what extent do you think that "Fighting a Social Media Addiction" accurately represents the Maryland study? Why?
C. Finally, this weekend (Friday - Sunday) choose one day to unplug. Investigate how difficult or easy it is to unplug from all media sources during the day. Take notes about your reaction during this day. Bring your notes back with you next class. You will be adding your reaction/experience to the article you wrote in task B above.
HOMEWORK: See above. Unplug. Take notes about your feelings/attitude/activities during the day you unplug. If you break, note the time and what broke you to check or use the media. Bring your notes to next class. You will be writing a short article about what you experienced.
Media, as we know, is something that has greatly shaped the lives of today's youth. Media is an addiction and these articles captures that. Both the Johnson article and the 24 hours: unplugged article make a similar point and there is not much difference between the two. These articles will put into perspective the addiction of media for readers. Fight the urge!
ReplyDeleteThere wasn’t much of a differentiation between the handout and the website. The website article is a summarized version of the handout and it’s much more condensed. They both focus on humanity’s obsession with the mass media and her inability to withdraw ourselves from it. Although, the handout does show a sort of bias when it comes to unplugging for 24 hours. That bias is that makes it seem as if unplugging for 24 hours practically impossible and that everyone struggles from indulging in the media.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with Rutledge’s claim. Based on my own experiences and I am sure, thousands teenagers around the world, I can say that my time spent on social media does have to do with my addiction. Rutledge says that students had an insatiable appetite news, and I agree with that but teenagers don’t go looking for them, the news has to be in their social media or they won’t go to websites like BBC or CNN to keep up with the news. The social media addiction is very real millions have it. We spend around one-third of our time on social media.
ReplyDeleteWhen concerning the handout "A day without Media" and the website "Fighting a social media addiction" the two have similar thoughts Social media addiction. Both of these forms of media clearly state the addiction that today's youth has towards media and how our values have shaped media which have shaped our lives in return. That's why the one difference between the two is the challenge on the hand out. I see it as a perfectly valid challenge that would be a fine way of rebelling against a controlling media, and to find a little independence.Which is not nearly as hard as they make it sound(its jut 24 hours/1 day) I could do that no problem, but everyone is different.
ReplyDeleteI personally do not feel addicted to social media, however I can see and it is evident in the Article "A day without media" that this is maybe not true for the majority of kids my age. I think part of the reason I do not feel so addicted to media is that I have a flip phone and an ipod and, both of which cannot connect to the internet unless I am Wifi. I have grown up not being reliant on social media for entertainment or for my social life. I am also not used to always having access to social media, but most kids my age are, and therefore have become reliant on it. This causes them to exhibit habits like those of an addict.
ReplyDeleteSocial Media is very popular in our everyday life’s today. So to take the Media away from someone for only a day will tell you a lot. It will tell you a lot because someone who is always on there phone is going to have a harder time upuggling than someone who barely uses anything new technology at all. In the handout “A Day Without Social Media” the antsy, fridgy, and addicted college student were compared too crack addict, smokers quitting with a patch, and lastly dried up alcoholics.This comparison was very clever and I believe on my day without social media I acted all three of those to fight the whining urge to use my phone. The website “Fighting A Social Media Addiction” is much like the handout we were given. The only difference was the way it was written. “Fighting a Social Media Addiction” talks more in depth about everyone and their social media addiction and is of a summarizated verison (sorry it was late the blog wouldn’t let me publish this comment on my phone).
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