Category Archives: Media Studies, General

Short Assignment: Using Anti-Surveillance Tools

Posted on May 21, 2016 by tony

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 →

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Contemporary Ecological Perspectives and Media Education

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Julie Wilson

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal Times Vol. 3 (2)  Niall Flynn  University of Lincoln   Recent developments in universities have led to high profile cases of academics clashing with institutions and student bodies across the world protesting … Continue reading →

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Teaching Irresponsibly and Uncomfortably: The Role of Theory in the Neoliberal University

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Julie Wilson

 Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier   Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal Times Vol 3 (2)  Hunter Hargraves  California State University, Fullerton   Over the last year, many online (and offline) spaces have taken up the question of trigger warnings – statements that prevent … Continue reading →

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The Classroom as a Space of Resistance: Disrupting Neoliberal Politics through Critical Communication Pedagogy

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Julie Wilson

   Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier   Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal Times Vol. 3 (2)  David H. Kahl, Jr.   Penn State Erie, The Behrend College   Introduction   The university was once a space intended to be a bastion of unencumbered critical examination. … Continue reading →

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“Talking About Whiteness”: Using Digital Pedagogy to Interrogate Racial Privilege

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Julie Wilson

   Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier  Critical Pedagogies in Neoliberal Times Vol. 3 (2)  Shelleen Greene  University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee   In this essay, I argue that digital media production can help facilitate critical dialogues about racial privilege that move beyond … Continue reading →

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Intro to New Media – Ursinus College

Posted on January 9, 2014 by tony

This course offers an introduction to thinking about relationships among emerging media technologies, everyday life, society, and history.  We will be exploring questions about what kinds of social impacts new media are having, as well as how social, political and … Continue reading →

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Advertising and Propaganda: Critical Approaches

Posted on July 19, 2013 by tony

Here’s my syllabus an intermediate level undergrad class introducing critical media studies approaches to advertising and propaganda. This was the first time I taught this syllabus, and I will surely refine it in the future.  But I had a good … Continue reading →

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Deconstructing TV’s Buffy

Posted on July 13, 2013 by profroguerouge

Course Description and Objectives: Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an extremely “full” text, playing on ideological fault lines (the “Hellmouth,” if you will) throughout its 103 hours. The series, self-consciously generic in conception and execution, allows this course to examine … Continue reading →

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Up with Chris Hayes: Media monopolies thrive as local newspapers fold

Posted on October 6, 2012 by tccorrigan1

A great three-segment discussion of newspapers monopolies and the often powerful corporate interests behind them. Could pair with news media concentration readings like Bagdikian’s The New Media Monopoly, Jhally’s The Political Economy of Culture (p. 45 here), Chapter 1 in McChesney’s Political … Continue reading →

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Media Literacy Syllabus

Posted on August 26, 2012 by raechel

This is a syllabus for the course Media Literacy: Decoding Media Images and Messages. You’ll see that it’s broken into sections: Foundations, Representation, Advertising & Branding, News & Celebrity Culture, Globalization/Transnationalism, Media Activism/New Media/Media Labor. I taught this course twice … Continue reading →

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