HERE are the lecture slides for Identity Politics and Resistance.
Please prepare well and hard for our bonus game on Thursday and our oral quiz next week! Start rereading your lecture slides, readings and notes!
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
TrackTrips Sign-ups!
Please click HERE to sign up!
TrackTrip 1: World Press Photo Exhibit, SM North The Block, 22 August, Friday. Meet in Ateneo 2PM. 16 slots.
TrackTrip 2: GMA Network, EDSA corner Timog, 10 September, Wednesday. Meet in Ateneo 1PM. 10 slots. (With my Media and Globalization students)
TrackTrip 3: Summit Media, Pioneer, date/time TBA (maybe Sept 2 or 4, but maybe during sem break due to scheduling difficulties). 15 slots.
I hope to get confirmation about Summit within the week. Let's see how it goes. See you soon!
TrackTrip 1: World Press Photo Exhibit, SM North The Block, 22 August, Friday. Meet in Ateneo 2PM. 16 slots.
TrackTrip 2: GMA Network, EDSA corner Timog, 10 September, Wednesday. Meet in Ateneo 1PM. 10 slots. (With my Media and Globalization students)
TrackTrip 3: Summit Media, Pioneer, date/time TBA (maybe Sept 2 or 4, but maybe during sem break due to scheduling difficulties). 15 slots.
I hope to get confirmation about Summit within the week. Let's see how it goes. See you soon!
Lecture 6: Representations of the Other
HERE are the lecture slides available for download. Filename is Reps of the Other 08.
Some questions for discussion:
1) Where do you see Othering today?
2) How do you think should suffering others be represented in the news? Should journalists maintain the objectivity norm, or is it acceptable for them to display emotion, just as Anderson Cooper's ecstatic news reporting of Hurricane Katrina?
3) Do you believe in the compassion fatigue thesis? Or is it really media fatigue?
4) According to Silverstone, what is proper distance? And why should we represent the Other as "both close and far"?
Some questions for discussion:
1) Where do you see Othering today?
2) How do you think should suffering others be represented in the news? Should journalists maintain the objectivity norm, or is it acceptable for them to display emotion, just as Anderson Cooper's ecstatic news reporting of Hurricane Katrina?
3) Do you believe in the compassion fatigue thesis? Or is it really media fatigue?
4) According to Silverstone, what is proper distance? And why should we represent the Other as "both close and far"?
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Quiz 2: Time Magazine article
Your objective: Analyze how the article constructs race/ethnicity. While this article may sound like a straightforward business news article that is all about statistics, products, and profits, upon closer reading, there is an underlying discourse about race and ethnicity, with meanings of progress, modernity, hygiene, lawfulness, etc, etc, etc inscribed in the report.
Guide questions: What meanings are attributed to Chinese-ness and American-ness? What words/phrases indicate constructs of "us" and "them"? How does the article position the reader? What emotions are invoked? How does the article agree or disagree with broader discourses about race in society? How useful are the concepts of othering, proper distance, and Orientalism in critiquing the article?
Output: (I have changed my mind) Please submit by Wednesday, Aug 20, 12nn, a 1- to 2-page typewritten essay that presents a discourse analysis of the article. Drop this paper in my pigeonhole, 3rd Floor of Social Sciences building. This counts as a 15-point quiz.
Bear in mind that there are no right or wrong answers to this exercise. There is more than one way to interpret a media text, after all. What I will look for are strong (or weak) arguments and mark you from there. I will examine how nuanced and in-depth you discuss the article, your attention to detail when you present evidence from the text (back up your argument with statements cited from the text), AND how well you integrate your analysis with concepts that we discussed in class. Remember: argument, argument, argument.
Post here or email me if you have any questions about the exercise.
Guide questions: What meanings are attributed to Chinese-ness and American-ness? What words/phrases indicate constructs of "us" and "them"? How does the article position the reader? What emotions are invoked? How does the article agree or disagree with broader discourses about race in society? How useful are the concepts of othering, proper distance, and Orientalism in critiquing the article?
Output: (I have changed my mind) Please submit by Wednesday, Aug 20, 12nn, a 1- to 2-page typewritten essay that presents a discourse analysis of the article. Drop this paper in my pigeonhole, 3rd Floor of Social Sciences building. This counts as a 15-point quiz.
Bear in mind that there are no right or wrong answers to this exercise. There is more than one way to interpret a media text, after all. What I will look for are strong (or weak) arguments and mark you from there. I will examine how nuanced and in-depth you discuss the article, your attention to detail when you present evidence from the text (back up your argument with statements cited from the text), AND how well you integrate your analysis with concepts that we discussed in class. Remember: argument, argument, argument.
Post here or email me if you have any questions about the exercise.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
TrackTrips@Com100
COMING SOON.
Three trips. Choose among a TV network, a lifestyle publication, and an exhibit of the world's best photographs.
Watch this space.
Three trips. Choose among a TV network, a lifestyle publication, and an exhibit of the world's best photographs.
Watch this space.
Dialogue with the Dead?
Weigh in on this representation of the Other. What did you think of the news report?
Link to Guidon article on suicide HERE. Take note that one can also post comments to the article in the Guidon page.
Link to Guidon article on suicide HERE. Take note that one can also post comments to the article in the Guidon page.
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