This blog post features our collaborative note-taking in class on Monday, 11/7, regarding the Arab Spring. Thank you to Mary for facilitating the discussion. Below are the main ideas from our class. The raw note taking can be viewed here: http://brownbag.me:9001/p/introcivic-arabspring Summaries and discussions from the core readings: Sami Ben […]
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The November 16th class readings focused on the history and expansion of ‘Anonymous,’ originating with their traditional form of lighthearted dissent and satire for the sake of ‘lulz’ to becoming a passionate political movement. Personally, I find that Anonymous cannot be both types at the same time–it not only detracts […]
This is a collaborative blog post with Mary Kenefake. Interview Questions: -Minorities participating in Boston TV: Based on personal experience working in the Boston TV industry how have the demographics change in the past ten years? (minority participation then and now) As a minority working in the television news industry, […]
Blog title: Final Project Proposal This is a collaborative blog post with Mary Kenefake. We will be working together on our final civic media project. Our final project will be a 15-25 page paper accompanied by a 5-7 minute long video that reflects our paper’s arguments. In this sense, we […]
Critical political economy is a tool with which we can critically examine the media. It takes a distinctly Marxist approach to the study of communications. Focuses include analyzing how various economic classes are affected, how people have different levels of access to communications technologies, how capitalism affects the media and […]