| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Introduction to Course Discussion of FemTechNet and Feminist Technology / Pedagogy, Media, New Media, and Blogs In-class VideoNewsom, 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 VideoJhally, 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 VideoOlson, Chuck. Blogumentary. April 25, 2011. Youtube. | Response paper due |
| 8 |
Elections and Participatory (Citizen) Media, Blogging, and "Spreadability" In-class VideoOlson, 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 VideoLessig, Lawrence. "Laws That Choke Creativity." TED, 2007. | |
| 10 |
Race, Gender, Ethnicity in Music In-class VideoJhally, 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 |