Group # 3 is made up of Alex, Jose G., Ashley, Jacqueline, and Jenny. You will present your group case study on APRIL 29th.
Guidelines for Group Presentations:
For the final group presentations, your group will locate a pop cultural artifact or phenomenon that has NOT been discussed within this semester’s class. You will all effectively be “teachers” for the day, presenting this artifact or phenomenon to the class and explaining why it is relevant to popular culture. You will be given an opportunity in class one day to work on your presentations, but you must also work with one another via this blog. Please post your ideas, thoughts, comments, updates to this blog.
Your presentation, which should last approximately 20 minutes, should include the following:
- Present examples of your artifact or phenomenon visually (either by bringing in examples that you can pass around or show digitally, via the computer and other equipment.
- Discuss WHY this particular artifact or phenomenon is an example of popular culture.
- Discuss HOW this artifact or phenomenon potentially reflects or informs popular cultural attitudes, anxieties, fears, beliefs, ideas, feelings, etc. So you have to go beyond just saying that it’s a popular cultural artifact, you must explain HOW it is.
- You can either choose one or two representatives of the group to present, or you can all take a small portion of the discussion to present individually.
- Turn in a page or two that reflects the work that each member of the group did for the completion of this group project, explaining what each person’s contribution was to the overall group project. This paper must be signed by each of you.
You will each receive a grade that reflects the overall effectiveness of the group project. So be sure that you all work together on this, because you will all be getting the same grade.
29 responses so far ↓
Jacqueline R. // April 13, 2008 at 5:05 pm |
HELLO, GROUP 3
I WAS THINKING ABOUT IDEAS FOR OUR PROJECT
ONE OF MY SUGGESTION IS
“MYSPACE”. LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK?
gomez j. // April 14, 2008 at 8:46 pm |
i like your idea on doing it on myspace, i was thinking about graffiti art for our project.
Ashley Mercado // April 15, 2008 at 9:38 am |
I don’t know. Myspace seems kinda played out to me but majority rules, so if everyone is down with that I’m down with that. I like the idea of graffiti art.
Alex A. // April 15, 2008 at 10:44 am |
Graffiti art sounds good but i think its not a phenomenon or artifact of todays popculture…its been around for a while now…not that im disagreeing to ur suggestion. Now, myspace…i agree with ashley that its somewhat played out…however…it is something that is fairly new to our culture…
Kristin Scott // April 15, 2008 at 10:53 am |
HI folks — it’s not so much about newness as it is about mass(ive) popularity. Superman’s been around for many decades, as have many other popular cultural superhero icons, but they are still massively popular. While graffiti is still popular, it probably would fit more into a subcultural genre — not necessarily mass culture. See what I mean? And you can expand beyond just MySpace, if you are interested in exploring social networks and the phenomenon of social networking. Facebook, Twitter, etc. are also social networking spaces. Just the fact that there are so many out there that are constantly surfacing (regardless of what they are) is, in itself, a popular cultural phenomenon.
Kristin Scott // April 15, 2008 at 1:09 pm |
However, if you did want to work with graffiti, one angle would be how it has moved from the street and into popular cultural items and galleries, etc. Or how it’s used in a popular cultural way. Street art is a term that encapsulates graffiti, but moves more into popular culture (look up “street art” on google).
gomez j. // April 16, 2008 at 12:34 pm |
i found 3 videos on youtube type in (myspace bad?!?!) the second is (bgtv-the myspace story: good or bad?) the third is (regina lewis-the view-my space is not bad space). let me know what you think.
Ashley Mercado // April 16, 2008 at 4:26 pm |
I couldn’t make it to class on tuesday so could someone fill me in on what we’re doing thursday? thanks!!
Alex A. // April 17, 2008 at 11:11 am |
Ashley, theres no class on thursday…we met tuesday and talked about what we are going to do and we decided MYSPACE was going to be our topic. We have some great ideas and were all going to work together and get a good grade on this.
Alex A. // April 17, 2008 at 11:13 am |
hey guys i read what the professor wrote….and i think we should expand our topic…we’ll have alot more to talk about if we do all the internet communication websites…not just myspace…what do yall think?
ashley m // April 17, 2008 at 2:12 pm |
I think we should talk about more than just myspace because most ppl know about it and they know a lot about facebook too. i think it would be really intersesting to go into the other websites. is there an angle we have going on for this project or am i just looking up anything i can about theses websites?
Yohance // April 18, 2008 at 8:44 pm |
Hey guys I read all the comments I am confused so are we doing myspace or another communication webs site. we kind of need to make our minds up. we will be presenting soon.
gomez j. // April 19, 2008 at 1:00 pm |
so what are we doing myspace or communication web site?
Alex A. // April 19, 2008 at 5:09 pm |
I propose we do cover all websites INCLUDING myspace and facebook….we can focus on myspace because its the most popular…however i think having info on each website is a plus…what yall think?
Jacqueline // April 19, 2008 at 5:56 pm |
SO MYSPACE AND FACEBOOK?
I’M CONFUSE, SO I’M GUESSING WE ARE GOING TO INCUDE THE LATIN AND AFRICAN AMERCIAN WEBSITE WE WERE TALKING ABT?!?
Ashley Mercado // April 21, 2008 at 9:53 am |
I think we have a lot to talk about tomorrow!
Jacqueline // April 21, 2008 at 11:24 am |
HERE’S A ARTICLE THAT I FOUND ON BOTH MYSPACE AND FACEBOOK.
http://0-proquest.umi.com.colib.ccc.edu/pqdweb?index=94&did=1435564071&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=3&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1208794901&clientId=10093
gomez j. // April 23, 2008 at 12:15 pm |
i found a article http://www.theheraldbulletin.com/peopleandplaces/local_story_112200253.html?keyword=topstory
gomez j. // April 23, 2008 at 12:18 pm |
here are some videos
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hjEbsxZ__3E
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1uHUquL_xAs
Ashley Mercado // April 23, 2008 at 8:07 pm |
I found a website that gives a brief hisoty on some social networking sites
http://nfistudios.com/blog/2007/06/21/a-brief-history-of-social-networking-sites/
Jacqueline R. // April 24, 2008 at 2:49 pm |
Alex
We are meeting on Saturday at 5:30 at Borders, the one on State Street.
alex a // April 26, 2008 at 9:22 am |
Today is not a good day I’m working all day…however I have seen the videos and read the articles…we got sum good stuff here we can use…lemme kno what I can do to help
Ashley Mercado // April 26, 2008 at 10:12 am |
i might not be able to make it tonight. Somebody called off and there’s nobody to close but ima try to get someone to cover that shift.
Ashley Mercado // April 26, 2008 at 12:03 pm |
There’s a song by Gym Class Heros that I was listening to today. I think it’s called Myspace Friend(or something like that. I have the CD) I think it would be a perfect fit to show how social newtwoking has impacted our society today. It’s about 4 minutes long and I figured we could play it for the class. It really is a perfect fit!
Jacqueline R. // April 26, 2008 at 8:20 pm |
Sorry you couldn’t make it today Ashley and Alex
the group and I came up with some great ideas.
We are meeting again on Monday at the cafeteria around 12:15.
Yohance // April 26, 2008 at 11:30 pm |
yea Ashley bring the song on Monday and we can see were we can put it in.
alex a // April 28, 2008 at 8:48 am |
i am working till 5 today…since i only have tueday n thursday classes….but i recognize the effort of the whole group and i dont want to come off as a person in the group who did nothing….let me know what i can work on tonite so i can show up to class read for the presentation.. my email address is arellaal25@yahoo.com if yall need to send me stuff
ashley // April 28, 2008 at 11:29 am |
I will be a little late but I will definetly be there
Jacqueline // April 28, 2008 at 1:34 pm |
Gym Class…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TnlSVKuy34&eurl=http://www.lyrics.com/lyric.php?id=37592
Mi Gente
http://www.migente.com/Popular_Culture/