Calendar

SES # TOPICS KEY DATES
1

Introduction to Course

Discussion of FemTechNet and Feminist Technology / Pedagogy, Media, New Media, and Blogs

In-class Video

Newsom, Jennifer Siebel and Kimberlee Acquaro. Miss Representation. Girls Club Entertainment, 2014. Watch on YouTube.

 
2

Gallery Visit to the MIT List Visual Arts Center.

Special Event: List Reading Group: Role-Playing, focused on Ann Hirsch exhibit

How do media platforms simultaneously construct and maintain a range of characters and social roles? Join List Curatorial Fellow Monica Steinberg for a reading and discussion group exploring the tensions between the personal and the performed, nonfictional and fictionalized beings, and complex self-conceptions and static identities in List Projects: Ann Hirsch.

 
3 Media Effects: Representation and Why It Matters  
4

Race, Class, and Gender in Media Content

In-class Video

Jhally, Sut. Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women. Watch an excerpt on YouTube.

 
5 Advertising and Consumerism  
6 Postfeminism and the "Problem" of the Woman Political Candidate Response paper due
7

Elections and Participatory (Citizen) Media, Blogging, and "Spreadability"

In-class Video

Olson, Chuck. Blogumentary. April 25, 2011. Youtube.

Response paper due
8

Elections and Participatory (Citizen) Media, Blogging, and "Spreadability"

In-class Video

Olson, Chuck. Blogumentary. April 25, 2011. Youtube.

Respond to FemTechNet student keyword videos in Cara Wallis' course "Collaborations in Feminism and Technnology" at Texas A&M.
9

Remix: Fandom, Memes, and Social Media

In-class Video

Lessig, Lawrence. "Laws That Choke Creativity." TED, 2007.

 
10

Race, Gender, Ethnicity in Music

In-class Video

Jhally, Sut. "Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video." 2007. The Media Education Foundation. Watch a clip on YouTube.

Keyword videos due-online posting
11 Music / Performance: Divas, Icons, Gender, and Sexuality  
12 Social Media, Feminism, and Youth Culture Introduction of Selfies / Final Project topic ideas
12 Hacktivism, Anonymity, and Feminist Online Resistant  
13 Selfies & Surveillance  
14 Final Project Presentations