Hi. HERE are the lecture slides for this week.
We really didn't have time for class discussion this afternoon. I'm still curious to know what you think of the following issues:
1) To what extent do you agree with the arguments of media imperialism and/or audience studies? Is there a way to bridge the two approaches?
2) How does the model of media as environment and the model of global/local relate to one another? How do these two frameworks compare to the effects and uses and gratifications frameworks?
3) "Active audience does not mean powerful audience" (Ien Ang). Critically discuss.
HOMEWORK:
Please read Imagined Communities (Benedict Anderson). This is the shortest reading at four pages! (Gasp!) Please be prepared because we have a guest speaker next week. Let's be ready to be active audiences. I think she's planning for a more discussion-heavy meeting than a lecture-based meeting.
I have read through the four case study proposals so far. While the hip-hop proposal presented a very clear and relevant problem (great abstract, actually), and the Harry Potter audiences proposal was well written, I am encouraging everyone to still think of alternative topics, or ways to refocus their current topics. I suggest you go review our previous lectures, and pick one or two concepts then think how you can empirically examine it in a case study. Think how you may be able to extend the concept, argue against it, problematize it, etc. (e.g., problematizing "proper distance" in an audience study)
I am also encouraging others to look at news and news audiences. All the proposals so far are all entertainment-related. Feel free to email and discuss. I am available for face-to-face consultation Thursday and Friday next week.
Please email me if you wish to know your group presentation grades as well.
Happy weekend!
Friday, July 27, 2007
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Week 6 Discussion: Representations of the Other
Hi. HERE are the lecture slides for this week.
Feel free to expound on some of our discussion questions:
1. Discuss Chouliaraki's typology of news items on suffering.
2. Media fatigue? Or compassion fatigue?
3. What is the significance of the concept of proper distance?
4. What are the continuities and discontinuities of Orientalist discourse in contemporary media?
Alternatively, you can post about the class presentations. I'm expecting similar work at a larger scale for your case study.
HOMEWORK for WEEK 7
1. Read Gillespie's Media Audiences Ch 4. Available in Filipiniana.
2. Prepare for an essay-based quiz based on the Gillespie reading.
3. Submit working case study proposal (title, research questions, abstract, key concepts, methods). Feel free to email me at bertiebott@hotmail.com for consultation.
4. Website posts this week count as 10-point quiz grades.
As there are many Potterfans in class, you can reflect upon the media event of the Book 7 launch from an audience/fan perspective. Happy reading!
Feel free to expound on some of our discussion questions:
1. Discuss Chouliaraki's typology of news items on suffering.
2. Media fatigue? Or compassion fatigue?
3. What is the significance of the concept of proper distance?
4. What are the continuities and discontinuities of Orientalist discourse in contemporary media?
Alternatively, you can post about the class presentations. I'm expecting similar work at a larger scale for your case study.
HOMEWORK for WEEK 7
1. Read Gillespie's Media Audiences Ch 4. Available in Filipiniana.
2. Prepare for an essay-based quiz based on the Gillespie reading.
3. Submit working case study proposal (title, research questions, abstract, key concepts, methods). Feel free to email me at bertiebott@hotmail.com for consultation.
4. Website posts this week count as 10-point quiz grades.
As there are many Potterfans in class, you can reflect upon the media event of the Book 7 launch from an audience/fan perspective. Happy reading!
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Week 5 Discussion: Representations
I was really impressed with our class discussion today. Representation, as I said, is a very crucial yet very heady topic in media studies. And it was great to see everyone giving great contributions to analyzing the media texts that we had in class. HERE are the lecture slides for your reference.
We don't have discussion questions this week pertaining to theory (unlike in previous weeks) because I do want us to focus on applying the constructivist approaches rather than know the whole shebang about ideology vs discourse debates, etc. The first task for any budding analyst of representations really is to commit to the assumption that reality is constructed and is always-already mediated by systems of representation. But of course, if you do want to clarify certain issues about the theoretical approaches that we discussed, feel free to do that here.
More crucially, I suggest that we post here interesting links to articles, YouTube videos, etc. so that we can try to analyze them together. To kick things off, you may want to look at representations of the VEIL in BBC news reports right HERE.
JULY 20 CLASS
Maybe you can even post a working analysis of a media text here before your class presentation/quiz on Friday, July 20. (Diane's group can present on July 27. Who else is going on immersion on July 20?) Remember that our class will be in Com B on July 20. BTW, the two readings (Said; Silverstone) will be available in Filipiniana beginning Monday. And the book Exploring Media Discourse by Myra Macdonald is in the Reserve Section. This is an excellent book for the many budding discourse analysts in class who wish to see more examples such as: a) the demonizing of Islam, b) the construction of children at risk / discourse of paedophelia, and c) panics about "unsafe" food, etc.
CASE STUDIES
I know some of you are tired of thinking of research topics because of your thesis, but I am encouraging you to begin consulting me about potential topics for your case study. Make sure that you pick topics that interest you; it's important to be excited about your topic. I would hope to collect your proposed topics by July 27.
PUBLIC SEMINAR SERIES
On a different note, I am looking forward to hearing your suggestions for alternative name studies for our seminar series. Please email me at bertiebott@hotmail.com or even post here your suggestions. I'm hoping that our design team can start work by next weekend already. :)
We don't have discussion questions this week pertaining to theory (unlike in previous weeks) because I do want us to focus on applying the constructivist approaches rather than know the whole shebang about ideology vs discourse debates, etc. The first task for any budding analyst of representations really is to commit to the assumption that reality is constructed and is always-already mediated by systems of representation. But of course, if you do want to clarify certain issues about the theoretical approaches that we discussed, feel free to do that here.
More crucially, I suggest that we post here interesting links to articles, YouTube videos, etc. so that we can try to analyze them together. To kick things off, you may want to look at representations of the VEIL in BBC news reports right HERE.
JULY 20 CLASS
Maybe you can even post a working analysis of a media text here before your class presentation/quiz on Friday, July 20. (Diane's group can present on July 27. Who else is going on immersion on July 20?) Remember that our class will be in Com B on July 20. BTW, the two readings (Said; Silverstone) will be available in Filipiniana beginning Monday. And the book Exploring Media Discourse by Myra Macdonald is in the Reserve Section. This is an excellent book for the many budding discourse analysts in class who wish to see more examples such as: a) the demonizing of Islam, b) the construction of children at risk / discourse of paedophelia, and c) panics about "unsafe" food, etc.
CASE STUDIES
I know some of you are tired of thinking of research topics because of your thesis, but I am encouraging you to begin consulting me about potential topics for your case study. Make sure that you pick topics that interest you; it's important to be excited about your topic. I would hope to collect your proposed topics by July 27.
PUBLIC SEMINAR SERIES
On a different note, I am looking forward to hearing your suggestions for alternative name studies for our seminar series. Please email me at bertiebott@hotmail.com or even post here your suggestions. I'm hoping that our design team can start work by next weekend already. :)
Public Lecture on July 16, Monday
This may be of interest for some of you. Tell me if you plan to attend. I'm actually unsure whether to go here or to stay in and write my dissertation. It sounds intriguing though.
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Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping
A lecture by
Martin F. Manalansan IV
16 July 2007, Monday
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Natividad Galang Fajardo Conference Room
G/F, De La Costa Hall
Utilizing the film Brokeback Mountain, the talk will explore how U.S. contemporary gay culture is reproducing white masculinist and neoliberal ideals through the genre of romance. At the same time, this talk is a preliminary meditation on how love as a political discourse can function as a pivot in meaningful social transformation and activism.
Martin F. Manalansan is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, and Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Duke University Press 2003; Ateneo de Manila University Press 2005), a critical ethnography of Filipino immigrants living in New York City, which was awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize by the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists. In addition to framing sexuality and gender within the processes of globalization and transnationalism, his interests include food, modernity, and urban life. He is presently working on several projects, including one that looks at the return migration of Filipinos from various parts of the world.
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Queer Love in the Time of War and Shopping
A lecture by
Martin F. Manalansan IV
16 July 2007, Monday
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Natividad Galang Fajardo Conference Room
G/F, De La Costa Hall
Utilizing the film Brokeback Mountain, the talk will explore how U.S. contemporary gay culture is reproducing white masculinist and neoliberal ideals through the genre of romance. At the same time, this talk is a preliminary meditation on how love as a political discourse can function as a pivot in meaningful social transformation and activism.
Martin F. Manalansan is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, and Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Duke University Press 2003; Ateneo de Manila University Press 2005), a critical ethnography of Filipino immigrants living in New York City, which was awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize by the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists. In addition to framing sexuality and gender within the processes of globalization and transnationalism, his interests include food, modernity, and urban life. He is presently working on several projects, including one that looks at the return migration of Filipinos from various parts of the world.
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Week 4 Discussion
Hi. HERE are the lecture slides for Theories and Concepts in Globalization Studies.
I enjoyed our discussion this afternoon; I hope that you did as well. I hope that we can extend it to this online SPACE. (Or is it a splace?)
Once again, here are the guide questions for this week:
1) Do processes of globalization render space and time differences insignificant? I.e., do we all experience space and time in the same manner?
2) Critically discuss the notion of non-places.
3) Do you agree with Anderson (1983) and Dayan and Katz (1992) that shared/simultaneous experiences through media integrate society?
4) Bonus: How can spaces become places? How can spaces become non-places?
5) Are online spaces (chatrooms, MMORPGs, websites) spaces, places, or non-places?
I wanted to show this ad in class, but we didn't have Internet connection (how ironic). I hope that you can comment on this ad (a 1994 ad for MCI, an Internet service provider in the US) in light of the concept of time-space compression (Harvey) and also the technological deterministic arguments.
For next week (July 13), please read MacDonald's Exploring Media Discourse (chapter 1) and (optional:) Van Dijk's New(s) Racism. Please bring newspaper articles or magazines or CDs/DVDs that contain interesting representations of nation, culture, race, and/or gender. For the students who will go on immersion on Friday, make sure that you have your friends take notes for you. The July 13 lecture is very important, especially for those doing case studies on representations. Furthermore our first quiz on Week 6 (July 20) will be a class presentation where students present an analysis of a global media text.
I enjoyed our discussion this afternoon; I hope that you did as well. I hope that we can extend it to this online SPACE. (Or is it a splace?)
Once again, here are the guide questions for this week:
1) Do processes of globalization render space and time differences insignificant? I.e., do we all experience space and time in the same manner?
2) Critically discuss the notion of non-places.
3) Do you agree with Anderson (1983) and Dayan and Katz (1992) that shared/simultaneous experiences through media integrate society?
4) Bonus: How can spaces become places? How can spaces become non-places?
5) Are online spaces (chatrooms, MMORPGs, websites) spaces, places, or non-places?
I wanted to show this ad in class, but we didn't have Internet connection (how ironic). I hope that you can comment on this ad (a 1994 ad for MCI, an Internet service provider in the US) in light of the concept of time-space compression (Harvey) and also the technological deterministic arguments.
For next week (July 13), please read MacDonald's Exploring Media Discourse (chapter 1) and (optional:) Van Dijk's New(s) Racism. Please bring newspaper articles or magazines or CDs/DVDs that contain interesting representations of nation, culture, race, and/or gender. For the students who will go on immersion on Friday, make sure that you have your friends take notes for you. The July 13 lecture is very important, especially for those doing case studies on representations. Furthermore our first quiz on Week 6 (July 20) will be a class presentation where students present an analysis of a global media text.
Monday, July 2, 2007
Previewing the Readings: Week 4
The readings are available for photocopy in the Filipiniana section. Kindly post here if you have difficulty accessing the readings. I will be in school Tuesday and Thursday so I can bring the books if you wish to photocopy.
As the readings are quite lengthy, I wish to highlight here the themes/concepts that you should focus on.
Our objective for this week's class is to examine how globalization has transformed our experiences of time, place, and space. And of course central in this experience is the role that media and communications have played historically.
The Rantanen (2005) reading on Time, Place and Space offers an easy-to-read literature review, outlining the different definitions of time, place, and space. She also offers a useful review of how theorists from different disciplines have described the media's role in the transformation of time, place, and space. It is crucial to read pages 46-55.
The Tomlinson (1999) reading on Deterritorialization is a critical account of how culture has become "divorced" from place or territory through processes of globalization (i.e., we can experience American culture even from outside the borders of the USA). It is crucial to read pages 106-120 and 128-130. (We will not focus on food and identity, and we will discuss hybridization--the concluding section--in greater detail later in the term)
As the readings are quite lengthy, I wish to highlight here the themes/concepts that you should focus on.
Our objective for this week's class is to examine how globalization has transformed our experiences of time, place, and space. And of course central in this experience is the role that media and communications have played historically.
The Rantanen (2005) reading on Time, Place and Space offers an easy-to-read literature review, outlining the different definitions of time, place, and space. She also offers a useful review of how theorists from different disciplines have described the media's role in the transformation of time, place, and space. It is crucial to read pages 46-55.
The Tomlinson (1999) reading on Deterritorialization is a critical account of how culture has become "divorced" from place or territory through processes of globalization (i.e., we can experience American culture even from outside the borders of the USA). It is crucial to read pages 106-120 and 128-130. (We will not focus on food and identity, and we will discuss hybridization--the concluding section--in greater detail later in the term)
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