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Class exercise from 3/31/09
What would you like to learn about in DOC?
Thanks for all of your great questions and wonderings! - Jakey :)
C01 - 9AM Section
- Why is this class called imagination? And how does that tie into Justice and Diversity?
- How does the media shape our ideals and society?
- How does what we learned in Diversity and Justice affect the media?
- Want to learn how to analyze ads, movies, songs, tv shows, and then find the social issues hidden within them.
- What are some strategies the media uses to perpetuate or reinforce ideas.
- How does media drive society?
- How does the government control media?
- How does the media affect the way various groups are viewed and stereotyped?
- What are some different techniques used when advertising products to different social groups?
- How does the media actually influence my life?
C02 - 10AM Section
- How are all cultures similar?
- What are some hidden rules that seem to be a part of society?
- Finding deeper meaning in creative writing (morals, hidden messages)
- What drives us to consume?
- I'd like to learn about how American Culture has evolved throughout history.
- How the different cultural perspectives we've learned about in DOC are presented in society and entertainment.
- How and to what degree does media impose beliefs and ideals on people?
- How to respect all religions in law.
- How diversity affects individuals and their own beliefs?
- How to think critically about our culture now.
- I would be interested in hearing about how the human brain works and how that connects to our emotions and actions.
typed up by Ashley from Week #1 - Thursday section - Thank you! Much appreciated :) - jakey
Definitions of Important Terms
Primary text: a document, recording or other source of information that was created at the time being studies, by an authoritative source, usually one with direct personal knowledge of the events being described.
Secondary text: analytical works that comment on and interpret other works (i.e. Primary texts)
-examples: reviews, discussions, biographies, commentaries, lectures (Open
Handbook, 371)
Sign: kind of text of America’s pop culture to analyze different aspects of media; any entity which signifies the meaning of another entity (symbol)
Semiotics: The process of analyzing and interpreting signs and relating then to culture
Cultural Mythology: the stereotypes and formed ideas created in culture that helps form our ideas about things (value system)
Cultural Code: the unconscious meaning we apply o any given thing via the culture in which we are raised
Visual Rhetoric: the art of using images effectively and persuasively
MLA FORMAT FOR NON-TRADITIONAL SOURCES
http://lib.trinity.edu/research/citing/nontrad.shtml
- posted by Ashley
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Ashley Chen said
at 9:31 pm on Apr 26, 2009
MLA FORMAT FOR NON-TRADITIONAL SOURCES
http://lib.trinity.edu/research/citing/nontrad.shtml
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