What’s Due Next? This Week Tuesday (today): Keyword Technology and “It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder” Thursday: Response post to “Technology” (feel free to use the Vox article as an example if that’s helpful) Near Future Sunday, October 3: Submit Field Experience Report on the Çudamani performance as a blog post – see assignment for details What’s… Read more »
What’s Due Next? This Week Tuesday (today): Keywords Race and Intersectionality Wednesday: Attend Çudamani performance (you should have received tickets by email) Thursday: Response post to either “Race” or “Intersectionality” (or you can respond to both in a single post, if you’d rather) Near Future Sunday, September 26: Submit Short Response Paper #1: Identity (I Am Not Your Negro) Review assignment Review rubric… Read more »
What’s Due Next? Tuesday (today) Reading: Queer Thursday: Response post to “Queer” keyword Next: Sunday, September 19: Watch I Am Not Your Negro, prepare to discuss through lenses on September 21: Identity New Media Feminism Gender Queer Race Intersectionality Tuesday, September 21: Reply comments to Queer posts Wednesday, September 22: Attend Çudamani performance; look for tickets by email this week from the… Read more »
Thanks for once again tackling your Identity response posts with integrity and thoroughness, and for engaging in what I found to be engaging and intriguing conversations as you posted reply comments on others’ posts. As you continue posting your responses to these keywords, and continue adding reply comments to others’ posts, remember to focus on providing clear, specific, and illustrative… Read more »
What’s Due Next? Tuesday (today) Readings Feminism Gender Thursday Response post to either “Feminism” or “Gender” keyword Next Tuesday, September 14 Reply comments to “Feminism” and “Gender” posts Reading for next week: Queer What’s Coming Up? Watch 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…. Read more »
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 Reply comments to “Identity” post Readings for next week: Gender & Feminism 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… Read more »
The majority of you have posted your response to the “New Media” keyword. If you’ve not posted yet, please do so. Initial posts were due by Thursday, August 26. Thanks to all how have posted and started adding reply comments. Overall, good work on this initial post. The goal of these posts is to engage you in the keyword as… Read more »
August 24 Introductions Name and preferred pronouns Where you’re from (your hometown) Your favorite film, show, episode, podcast, media stream, music, etc. (i.e., “media”) Seating Chart Course Overview Introduction: What’s the relationship among Media, Culture, Identity? Expectations: Presence and participation, online and in class Syllabus: Refer to course site moving forward, as it will be more detailed Course Site Logging… Read more »
My name is Daniel Hocutt. You may see that I list myself as “Daniel Hocutt, R’92, G’98” on our course site. That’s because I’m a UR graduate. I earned my BA in English in 1992 (until 1993, undergraduate students graduated from their residential college, with “R” standing for “Richmond College” and “W” standing for “Westhampton College”). I earned my MA… Read more »
Although Blackboard is available to us, we’ll be using this course site for the majority of our course work. The rationale for using a blog as a course site is that technology and new media are among the “keywords” we’ll be using as critical lenses to study and understand media, culture, and identity. We’ll use the very technologies we’re seeking… Read more »