Tuesday, March 27, 2007
New Media Literacy
Finally Jen, Charity, and myself thought of an idea for our new media literacy project that is due by the end of the semester. The goal of our project is to give new insight to media literacy and show how it can be applied in the classroom. Based on Hobbs' book, we found some very useful and helpful information that will help us begin this very difficult take. What we are planning on doing is combining a media literacy critique of the popular TV show "Family Guy," with a podcast involved as well. In our project we will be looking at questions on who exactly is the intended audience of Family Guy, is the show directed to any group of people in particular, who watches it, etc... We also have several other questions along with video clips from the actual show that we will put into our project. We are really excited to do a project like this because we feel that a popular show like "Family Guy" will be an easy topic for adolescents/college students to understand and relate to. We will definitely keep you posted on our progress, as this is an ongoing project that should be fairly time consuming. Wish us luck!
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Hey, Your topic sounds really interesting. Incorporating "Family Guy" is a really good idea that I am sure will hook students in our class. That is such a creative way to apply media literacy to your podcast, especially through further connections with Hobbs' book. I'm excited to see your final product.
As an experienced media educator, may I suggest that you being making a list of all of the commercials aired during the program: just doing a content analysis of those ads ought to tell you who the advertisers are trying to reach. Good luck.
Frank Baker (Media Literacy Clearinghouse) www.frankwbaker.com
I think that is a great idea! I think that this this idea will engage your students in the material. The Family Guy is extremely popular among young adults, and I think that you are doing exactly what we talked about in 307. You ar making learning authentic and paralleling your lessons to what students want to learn. Good luck with the project!
Lindsay, I agree that looking at the commercials is a great idea.
Too, what are the ideologies that circulate in this TV show??? What can we learn about aspects of our culture from examining them?
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