{"id":1315,"date":"2021-11-29T15:05:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2021-12-02T10:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T15:13:31","slug":"week-15-november-30-december-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/29\/week-15-november-30-december-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 15: November 30 &#038; December 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What\u2019s Due Next?<\/h2>\n<h3>This Week<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuesday (today)\n<ul>\n<li>Keyword <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/readings\/surveillance\/\">Surveillance<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Response post to \u201cGaze\u201d (this is a change from our normal pattern)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, December 2:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Gaze&#8221; reply comments<\/li>\n<li>Response post to &#8220;Surveillance&#8221; (no reply comments for &#8220;Surveillance&#8221; required)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Near Future<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Short Response Paper #3: Convergence is due\u00a0<strong>Friday, December 3<\/strong>\u00a0(this is a change)<\/li>\n<li>Your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/assignments\/arcgis-storymap\/\">Final Project<\/a>, the ArcGIS StoryMap illustration of a keyword, remains due on Tuesday, December 7, but you have an automatic extension until December 14 if needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Tuesday, November 30<\/h2>\n<h3>Two Closing Arguments<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Gaze&#8221; and &#8220;Surveillance&#8221; in media studies both represent viewing of different objects by different subjects for different purposes\n<ul>\n<li>Gaze\n<ul>\n<li>Objects are generally marginalized in culture and society (e.g., women, BIPOC [black, indigenous, and people of color]) who lack subjective agency.<\/li>\n<li>Subjects are generally mainstream, white, and heterosexual in culture and society who have subjective agency<\/li>\n<li>Purpose of the Gaze is to sexualize, genderize, make available and touch objects of desire<\/li>\n<li>Not generally overtly about power relations, but clearly interwoven with them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Surveillance\n<ul>\n<li>Objects are generally those who need to be controlled or disciplined in some way<\/li>\n<li>Subjects are generally nation states and multinational corporations<\/li>\n<li>Purpose of Surveillance is to control and manage presumed inevitable future dangers<\/li>\n<li>Overtly dictates power relations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Gaze and Surveillance belong with Agency, Assemblage, and Flow as components or aspect of Convergence\n<ul>\n<li>Convergence represents the tendency toward merger and assimilation, subsuming individual perspectives and approaches under over-arching paradigmatic umbrellas<\/li>\n<li>Gaze and Surveillance both proliferate in media and seek to expand power and influence over &#8220;the other&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Consider corporate convergence in the example of Facebook, Meta, and the Metaverse\n<ul>\n<li>Facebook acquires Instagram<\/li>\n<li>Facebook acquires WhatsApp<\/li>\n<li>Facebook renames itself &#8220;Meta&#8221; and shifts focus to the metaverse, a virtual world in which data represents (or perhaps is) identity<\/li>\n<li>Gaze and Surveillance become corporate values in the guise of data collection, data analytics, and marketing and advertising revenue<\/li>\n<li>Gaze and Surveillance are enabled by Assemblage and Flow, and result in the lost of individual agency in the form of assemblage agency: assembled in the metaverse, owned by Meta<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Thinking about StoryMaps<\/h3>\n<h4>Details of the Assignment<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Select a keyword (can be one we covered or any other keyword in KMS)<\/li>\n<li>Illustrate that keyword as an ArcGIS StoryMap<\/li>\n<li>Embed your StoryMap in a paragraph-length project summary blog post in category &#8220;StoryMap&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Reminders about StoryMaps<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Review notes from Justin Madron&#8217;s presentation (see class notes from <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/10\/26\/week-10-october-26-28\/\">October 28<\/a>) on how to plan and outline your StoryMap, along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/arcgis\/products\/arcgis-storymaps\/albums\/storytelling-tips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Storytelling Tips<\/a> he shared.<\/li>\n<li>Review Justin&#8217;s key approaches\n<ul>\n<li>Identify your target audience (not \u201ceveryone everywhere\u201d)\n<ul>\n<li>How much knowledge will you target audience bring to the story?<\/li>\n<li>How can you make your story relatable to your target audience?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Define 2-3 key takeaways (i.e., do some planning); simplicity is key<\/li>\n<li>Define your goals and metrics for success (clicks, engagement, learning)<\/li>\n<li>Create content inventory list (media heavy; get your media together, and switch up your media a little)<\/li>\n<li>Draft an outline or \u201cstoryboard\u201d your project \u2013 check for flow, story or logic gaps, linearity<\/li>\n<li>Hook your audience at the very beginning: graphic, image, statement \u2014 like an abstract in a research project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>You are free to play, but you need to give yourself time to fail before your succeed in communicating your ideas.<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t need to provide an in-depth definition of your keyword, but you&#8217;re encouraged to use a definition as an introduction along with some way to illustrate the keyword.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re welcome to use research to dig into deeper meanings of the keyword, which may be useful if you seek to illustrate the history of the keyword&#8217;s emergence in critical studies.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;re also welcome to focus more directly on creative aspects of illustrating the keyword&#8217;s use as a critical lens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Grading<\/h3>\n<p>200 points total (20% of final grade)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>75 points: Identify and fully build out a StoryMap of the selected keyword (i.e., the StoryMap is about the keyword, not about something else, and you clearly understand the keyword)<\/li>\n<li>75 points: Accurately depict the StoryMap of the keyword without errors or misinterpretation (i.e., the illustrations are applicable to the keyword, and you&#8217;ve not used the keyword inaccurately as a critical lens)<\/li>\n<li>25 points: Provides depth and breadth of creativity, integrating multiple complete media types (i.e., you&#8217;ve integrated creativity in the StoryMap, and it&#8217;s not just one or two rows in length)<\/li>\n<li>25 points: Takes full advantage of StoryMap medium, demonstrating technological and information literacy (i.e., you&#8217;ve demonstrated understanding of StoryMaps by creating a good one)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Thursday, December 2<\/h2>\n<h3>Closing Discussion<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>What do you believe you&#8217;ve learned about this semester in this course?<\/li>\n<li>Do you see ways that what you&#8217;ve learned will help you in future classes?<\/li>\n<li>What did you learn about using the blog as a tool for reflection and response?<\/li>\n<li>How does the blog as a technology affect the learning experience?<\/li>\n<li>How does working in the blog compare to class discussions and using Blackboard for discussion?<\/li>\n<li>What worked well this semester?<\/li>\n<li>Where is there room for improvement?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Final Requests<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Please complete the <a href=\"https:\/\/p3.courseval.net\/etw\/ets\/et.asp?nxappid=0E2&amp;nxmid=GetSurveyForm&amp;wsedrq=V0QDBZO151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official course evaluation<\/a> form. This is important for lots of reasons, but for me it&#8217;s a method for identifying areas of strength and weakness in the course.\n<ol>\n<li>I won&#8217;t see results until after I&#8217;ve submitted grades.<\/li>\n<li>Your responses will be anonymous.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<li>Please consider taking a couple of minutes during class to complete a <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/nS3ENJFvSnDjERfM7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feedback form<\/a> that identifies strengths and areas of improvements in the course.\n<ol>\n<li>I&#8217;ll see these results immediately.<\/li>\n<li>Your responses will be anonymous.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Grades<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ll announce final calculated grades in Blackboard before I submit them to BannerWeb. You&#8217;ll have a short window to ask questions about your final grade, but you can work with your advisor to appeal grades if that&#8217;s something you wish to do. I don&#8217;t mind questions about grades.<\/p>\n<p>Final grades are due Friday morning, December 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s Due Next? This Week Tuesday (today) Keyword Surveillance Response post to \u201cGaze\u201d (this is a change from our normal pattern) Thursday, December 2: &#8220;Gaze&#8221; reply comments Response post to &#8220;Surveillance&#8221; (no reply comments for &#8220;Surveillance&#8221; required) Near Future Short Response Paper #3: Convergence is due\u00a0Friday, December 3\u00a0(this is a change) Your\u00a0Final Project, the ArcGIS StoryMap illustration of a keyword,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/29\/week-15-november-30-december-2\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166655],"tags":[206372,206370,991,177312,48156,53808,87715],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-notes","tag-arcgis","tag-convergence","tag-feedback","tag-gaze","tag-grades","tag-storymap","tag-surveillance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}