Presentation Evaluation Sheet

This is his rubric

Pop Culture cont'd

Two Cultural Perspectives

1. Modernism view:
Culture is hierarchical, ordered, rational. Divided into three types: Elite, popular (mass/media), and folk.
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2. Post-Modernism view:
Any cultural artifact is neither "good" nor "bad" in itself. The manner it's used determines in's goodness (or badness)


Pop culture is making folk or elite material "palatable"

Pop Culture

Psy.

Student discussing how she would handle the haters with nooses and Obama's name on them.
"Well, wait until I become president, everyone's going to die"


"Why does it have to end it blood?"


God and the Super Bowl
(The Lord's Prayer converted into a football worship.)

The Super Bowl and the power of popular culture

Media Minute and go

Media Minute:
Fox News reporting Navy SEAL's real name rather than the pseudonym.

augmented reality, e-waste

Kyle Jones' Media Minute

The other media minute:
"Muslim Rage"
the frame just gets more solidified 

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 The growing problem of e-waste

Media and New Technology: Issues and Concerns
2. Impact on societies
a. the global village & "free flow of information"
b. cultural imperialism (when another country's more attractive than your own)
c. effect on "institutions" within a society churchmedia

FreeRice.com / Digital Manipulation/Technologies

Began with Tiffany's Media Minute

FreeRice.com
does it REALLY donate 10 grains of rice per right answer?
Snoopes says so. Can we still trust that?

Could we incorporate this into our schools?

Advertisers get their exposure and the money is in-turn given to a greater cause.

How does it really track your rice count? Don't you need an account to "cash in" your rice?

Brainwashing us to think that we need to appreciate this advertising?

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Media Minute 2

"Prince Harry Nude Photo Scandal "Could Get Worse"
A: I'm not going to show those"
B: Aww
Everyone: LOL

How would these scandals have been different before mass media?

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Media and New Technology
Issues and Concern
1. Digitization of content "it's a power in society that we've never had before"
a. impact on each medium of digital production, distribution & consumption
[big tangent on power and information]
b. copyright/piracy issues
c. ethical issues (privacy, image alteration, etc)

The ethics of digital manipulation



24 Hours: Unplugged

New Tech vs Old Tech

Media Minute: ending the era of 35mm film

Dying technologies?

Emotional attachment to things



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Other Mass Comm. Theories
Agenda-setting: the media doesn't tell us what to think, but rather what to think ABOUT

Top Stories of 2011? 
Economy, Middle East Unrest


New Technology Jargon Quiz
1. Blagging
2. 3-D printing
3. Data Mining ("that's the rise of the machine, bro")