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Category Archives: Presentations
Short Assignment: Using Anti-Surveillance Tools
The purpose of this assignment is to ask student groups to give brief presentations on how to use online, anti-surveillance tools and analyze potential benefits and drawbacks of these tools. I include this assignment after students have read and discussed … Continue reading
Foregrounding Context Through Paratexts
Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 1 (3) Fall 2013 Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin The naturalized primacy of the text has a firm grip on many students’ relation to media, but I have found using paratexts in … Continue reading
Parapedagogy: Teaching Film Analysis from the Digital Periphery
Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 1(3) Fall 2013 Lynne Stahl Cornell University At a time when humanities instructors feel perpetual pressure to make courses “sexy” and “relevant” to attract students to majors with dwindling enrollments, many attempt to do … Continue reading
Teaching the Annotated Video Essay with Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker
Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 1(2) Spring/Summer 2013 Jennifer Proctor University of Michigan-Dearborn Click image to link to site Jennifer Proctor is an assistant professor in journalism and screen studies whose courses integrating Popcorn Maker and other … Continue reading
Group Television Pitches
I have my Introduction to Critical Media Studies students read “Consuming Race on Nickelodeon” by Sarah Banet-Weiser from her book Kids Rule!: Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship. This reading is part of a broader unit that focuses on media culture, representation, … Continue reading
Prezi! Excellent non-linear presentation/mind-map software!
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Class debate on media policy
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Judith Williamson, Decoding Advertisements
I’ve found Judith Williamson’s Decoding Advertisements incredibly useful for introducing students to semiotics, ideology and subjectivity, as well as the critical study of advertising. I usually use Chapters One and Two. Students find the reading to be challenging, but I help them out a bit with this handout, which is my breakdown of her key points about advertising, subjects, and ideology. You’ll also find my guidelines for student presentations: I ask students to use Williamson to conduct their own critical analysis of an advertisement which they present to the class. Continue reading
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