What’s Due Next?
Tuesday (today)
- Readings
- Identity
- The Best Four Years of Your Life?
Thursday
- Response post to “Identity” keyword
Next Tuesday, September 7
What’s Coming Up?
Start watching I Am Not Your Negro and consider how it illustrates or explains any of the keywords in the Identity section of the course. Due September 19.
Login to your account on the UR ArcGIS StoryMaps collection. Use the Getting Started with ArcGIS Online at the University of Richmond as a guide to get you started. Feel free to begin watching the videos embedded in that story map to see how you can use ArcGIS as a new media platform.
Tuesday, August 31
- Attendance and seating chart
- “Temperature check” on the start of the term
- Timeline for assigning grades
Mediation
- What does this mean?
- What does “media” mean in relationship to “mediation?
- Look up definitions and tell us what you’re seeing.
- Let’s get a sense of how the media perform “mediating” activities.
Keywords
- New Media
- Identity
- Discussion Questions
- Who is the author(s)?
- How would you define the keyword(s) for this week?
- What is the history of the keyword(s)?
- How has the meaning of the keyword changed over time?
- How does the keyword help us understand “Media, Culture, Identity”?
- How does the keyword define or describe the relationship among these terms?
- What kinds of questions can you ask of culture, media, and identity using the keyword(s)?
- Activities
- Find definitions of “New Media” outside of the one in our text. What’s similar? What’s different? What’s the reason for this difference?
- Find definitions of “Identity” outside of the one in our text. What’s similar? What’s different? What’s the reason for this difference?
Thursday, September 2
Demonstrating “identity” in media and culture
Facebook aired four video stories during the 2020 Olympic Games that talked a great deal about identity. Let’s watch all four and chat about what each may be saying about identity.
We Change the Game When We Find Each Other
- Skate Nation Ghana
- No Comply
- Longboard Family
- Once Upon a Time Everywhere
Understanding why Facebook is interested in identity
- What motivates Facebook to release these short video stories?
- Are these ads?
- What role does Facebook play in identity formation? In culture formation? In media formation?
- Where do you see “hybridity,” “performativity,” “access,” and other issues described in the keyword description appearing in these video stories?
- How is “identity” a tool that helps us watch these video stories critically?