Blog Activity: Please post a personal and/or full response to one of our discussion questions on YOUR blog. Remember that you will want to send me your blog URL and update it. You may also include any of these questions to answer in a blog post on YOUR blog: A. Drawing on your experience, list the kinds of media stories you like and dislike. You might think mostly of movies and TV shows, but remember that news, sports, political ads, and product ads or commercials are also usually structured as stories. Conversations on Facebook or Twitter can also be considered narratives. What kinds of stories do you like and dislike on Facebook or another Social Media platform, and why? B. Cite some examples in which the media have been accused of unfairness. For example, in the reporting of the BLM movement, the Me Too movement, or election coverage... Draw on comments youve heard from parents, teachers, religious leaders, friends, news media, and so on. Discuss whether these criticisms have been or are justified. C. Pick an example of a popular media product (books, films, tv shows, radio, music, video games, news coverage, newspapers, social media, internet sites, etc.) that you think is harmful to children. How would you make your concerns known to the masses? Should the product be removed from circulation or banned? Why or why not? If you think the product should be banned, how would you go about it (protests, demonstrations, writing letters, calling your senator, waving a flag, writing an editorial, tweeting, etc.)? D. Make a critical case either defending or condemning the way Media represents Comedy Central’s South Park (or another satirical tv show), a live TV or radio talk show that has a particular poltical bias, a hip-hop or other musical group, or TV news coverage of the ongoing wars in the Middle East or another political issue. Develop and explain your position in your post. E. Although in some ways postmodern forms of communication, such as e-mail, Tik-Tok, Snapchat, smartphones, Facebook, and Twitter, have helped citizens participate in global life, in what ways might these forms harm more traditional world or native cultures? Make sure you turned in your homework ?'s for chapter 1, part 1! Also, just a note to remind you to keep your homework in a safe place. The questions you answer will likely appear on assessments throughout the course. WRITE YOUR POST ON YOUR BLOG...there is nothing to submit here for that activity! However, today we will get started on our Mass Media Slide Presentation Topic. Choose and sign up for one of the following slideshow presentation topics in the attached google doc below. Use your time in the lab to begin researching the inventor & invention that helped develop mass media. Take notes on your topic for your presentation and slides. You will be asked to share your research with the class in an oral presentation. This project is NOT due yet. We will continue working on it next week. Make sure you have signed up for your topic in the shared google doc below!
Rubrics & expectations for your project:
Use Google slides (with or without Pear Deck or other add-ons) or Prezi to incorporate your answer (remember to make your presentation PUBLIC so anyone can access and see your work!): What should you know about your topic? 1. Find out (and be able to explain) what your topic is. 2. Research specific interesting details (not all details!) about your subject. 3. Research how your subject influenced or impacted technology that came after it (convergence). 4. Note if your technology is still being used today (or how has it changed?) YOUR SLIDES: should include: A. A title page with your name on it and the name of your subject/invention/topic. B. 1-3 slides about your subject (introduction of the person or culture that created the invention); if your topic includes more than one person or object, you should prepare 1 slide per object/subject/person, etc. C. 1-3 slides about the invention (What is it? How does it work? What did it do/what does it do? 1 slide describing what effect or impact the invention has had on other inventions or ideas (mass media) that came after it. If you have more than one invention to cover, please include a separate slide for each invention! D. A works cited page in MLA format. See MLA format for help. (You may use a citation machine to help you--see attached resources below...!) E. You may include a short video in your presentation if you need to. Videos should not be more than 1-2 minutes in length. F. Your slides should be designed to appeal to a viewer/peer student. Use pictures! They are worth a thousand words! NOTE: You may only have 15 words on a slide! (Your overall project grade will be affected if you have more than 15...!) G. Use note cards for your presentation details about your subject matter. You may use as many note cards or your notes as you need to explain your subject and invention to your audience (us).Please submit your slideshow projects in Google Classroom for your presentation. IMPORTANT: Before submitting, please make sure you make your presentation PUBLIC so we can see your work!
We will be using Culture & the Media as our textbook. Please read pages: 58-77* (this is the page # of the digital copy you should download. The physical page #'s you should read are between 16-35.) [Please download a copy of this textbook and save it to your computer. To save the file, open the text from the attached PDF copy below. In the top right-hand corner, click on the 3 dots ... This will open an options window where you can "OPEN A COPY" of the text. Once you have a copy open, you can download the PDF to your computer. We will be using this book throughout this course this year.] HOMEWORK: After reading complete the following questions that correspond to the chapter: Surveying the Cultural Landscape 6. Describe the skyscraper model of culture. What are its strengths and limitations? 7. Describe the map model of culture. What are its strengths and limitations? 8. What are the chief differences between modern and postmodern values? Critiquing Media and Culture 9. What are the five steps in the critical process? Which of these is the most difficult, and why? 10. What is the difference between cynicism and criticism? 11. Why is the critical process important?
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